Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Good Golly, Miss Molly

Today's Science Times has an interesting story on "how and why we curse." Oddly, Microsoft Office is not mentioned at all.

Dig this:

Nowadays, the phrase, "Oh, golly!" may be considered almost comically wholesome, but it was not always so. "Golly" is a compaction of "God's body" and, thus, was once a profanity.

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