[Ads-l] cuss word euphemisms
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri Dec 2 08:10:51 UTC 2016
On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 2:31 PM, Jim Parish <jparish at siue.edu> wrote:
> My mother's favorite euphemisms included
"Dawg bite it!" and "I'll be John Brown!"
The latter is so common in BE that there's a jam with that as its title.
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
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