>Egads.
>Doug
>
>Doug,
>Where does that word egads come from?
>My grandmother used to use it and I associated it with her - thought
>it was a southern thing.
It's a euphemism for O God! I use it, and other mild epithets like gosh, because my normal instinct is to turn to some variant of fuck. Since I sometimes worry about sounding too much like Tony Soprano, a little mildness now and then never hurts.
Doug