Will The Real March Please Stand Up?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Sep 25 10:33:36 PDT 2002


Marta Russell wrote:


>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



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