> I note "blooming" rather than "bleeding".
>
> Dominic
Actually, there's a cascade of euphemisms around this.
I think the original was, "Isn't it a bloody shame?"
I could go into detail over the transition from bloody to bleeding to
blooming (it's forties squaddie slang, isn't it, Dom, or earlier?) but
perhaps I'd better knot.
Kilroy
(who was there)
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