I hear it in teenagers' lingo, where "jeez" et al is
used instead of Jesus to evade parents' strictures on
swearing.
Candice
--- Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 4/4/07, cooee <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > And in Australian, 'k'n'oath'... (seldom found in
> print)
> >
> > Max
> >
>
> Seldom found anywhere these days...conversational
> Australians don't on the
> whole have a lot of problems with swearing and these
> days mainly just, well,
> swear. I'm still fond of Graham Kennedy's scandalous
> crow impersonations on
> IMT - "faaark faaark" - which got him into such
> trouble all those years ago.
>
> A
>
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