At 8:41 PM -0800 3/4/01, Arnold Zwicky wrote: >hmmm... "wouldn't say boo to a goose" is the version i know. >it is, or was, certainly common in england, but i wouldn't >venture to say that it was unknown in the u.s. > I wonder if "goose" might not be a (possibly euphemistic?) alteration of "ghost" here. Taboo avoidance at work again? larry