dialect tidbit

[J. Eulenberg]

That's wonderful -- you'd think "goodness sake" would be tame enough,
wouldn't you!

Julia Niebuhr Eulenberg <eulenbrg at u.washington.edu>

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Orin Hargraves wrote:

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>> I'll add my great-aunt's "good night shirt!!," in which the shirt was
>> simply added for emphasis.  I never heard her swear, but this one and one
>> I can't pull together at the moment which started "chicken..." and was
>> xclearly another of her euphemisms.
>>
> I also had a great aunt (from SW Louisiana), admirable for her avoidance of
> vulgarisms. Her expression of great surprise was "For garden seed!"
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> Orin Hargraves
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