SCHOOLBOY EUPHEMISMS
Schoolboys chow a certain ingemxby of choice. "Good gardes stuff," which was very popular some yeaxs ago, provided a satisfactory ' mouthful s» well es a euphemism of a more blasphemous ex-pl-efcive, cayn a writer in the "Manchester Guardian." "lJ.y foec" has had a long inning", and the origin from the Goddess of Sorcery is Jifciie rcmcn)bore.<l. Ono has known, a clergyman who relieved himself wic'h "By Jupiter," which he raa-y have considered :i politer form of "By Jove," generally regarded as fairly i;inccuoutv. "OramW c-. 1 "By diinsba" ia sureiy one of the most curious of 0:1----pletivra, ulioukTi eo^ib people s-^era to find: jo vci-y re!ie\-i:is. "i;cat my ca-ts" comvis frnin America. "My st,.i;'s p^acl gafters" v,r;:s Victorian, r/ao is not m-uch heard yoWKduys. "Good Hen-veris" :'s a.nofchii" ei'.fJioiikr.i, S3 pax. "The donee" a-iul "Toe dkkeiy..". "Great, Scatt" still 'tinger*, and irsi"e fjodi;" esftiiis to be ixipulr.i' with Kjinolijii'kj zn'X '-i>« y<jtui£f woinattjini jou.vjJ^iwjj,
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 91, 14 October 1922, Page 16
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156SCHOOLBOY EUPHEMISMS Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 91, 14 October 1922, Page 16
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