Will The Real March Please Stand Up?

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Wed Sep 25 10:58:40 PDT 2002


Marta Russell wrote:
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> 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.
> marta

Earliest use given in OED is 1673. Probably from _a God_ (_a_ an interjection). A softened oath.

Carrol
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