dialect tidbit

[Wilson Gray]

On Sep 23, 2004, at 4:33 PM, 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.
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> 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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Reminds me of my mother's "Merciful speed!" "Plague take it!" and "Dog
bite it!" are another couple of her favorites.

-Wilson Gray