>>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
My favorite is "Zounds!" from "God's Wounds!"
The Russians say "Blin!" ("Cabbage!") instead of "Blyad!" ("Whore!").
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