Robin Hamilton wrote:
>>I note "blooming" rather than "bleeding".
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>>Dominic
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>Actually, there's a cascade of euphemisms around this.
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>I think the original was, "Isn't it a bloody shame?"
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A family chain restaurant in the States, Outback Steak House (it really
doesn't serve 'roo steaks), will use blooming--as in Bloomin' Onion--so
it must be fairly innocuous.
But nobody has explained "bloody" to me save to say it's best not said
in polite company. Even infamous internet isn't much help except to
point me at rock bands with the name "Bloody" in them (and this affects
me how?) or the far less entertaining Bloody Sunday events in 1972.
What about the word as expletive?
Undelete, please. Why is it or was it frowned upon?
Ken <we used some choice words in the Bronx too>
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