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StoneThrower
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All,
I heard a great message on minced oaths. To use these you might as well just say what they stand for, as its just as offensive to God as if you did. If the world knows these, how much is our Christian testimony worth? Notice how many are taking the Lords name in vain. I see I am guilty of a few I wasn't aware of.
To mince one's words means to moderate one's language. This is frequently heard when a less offensive phrase is substituted for an oath or imprecation. Thus, when someone says jeepers creepers instead of saying Jesus Christ, that is a minced oath. These are so common that, in most cases, the speaker does not know that a substitution is being made. How many people who say for crying out loud realize that this is simply a minced form of for Christ's sake? Other mangled forms of Christ used as mild oaths are cripes, crimes, criminy and crikey. Also, the Irish bejabers, is a minced form of by Jesus.
So some of you won't remain ignorant concerning what you say, below is a list of some minced oaths that are of a religious nature adapted from the list found on Wikipedia.
I heard a great message on minced oaths. To use these you might as well just say what they stand for, as its just as offensive to God as if you did. If the world knows these, how much is our Christian testimony worth? Notice how many are taking the Lords name in vain. I see I am guilty of a few I wasn't aware of.
To mince one's words means to moderate one's language. This is frequently heard when a less offensive phrase is substituted for an oath or imprecation. Thus, when someone says jeepers creepers instead of saying Jesus Christ, that is a minced oath. These are so common that, in most cases, the speaker does not know that a substitution is being made. How many people who say for crying out loud realize that this is simply a minced form of for Christ's sake? Other mangled forms of Christ used as mild oaths are cripes, crimes, criminy and crikey. Also, the Irish bejabers, is a minced form of by Jesus.
So some of you won't remain ignorant concerning what you say, below is a list of some minced oaths that are of a religious nature adapted from the list found on Wikipedia.
- Begorrah = By God
- Bejabbers = By Jesus
- Bleeding heck = Bloody Hell
- Blimey = Blind me
- Blinking heck = Bloody Hell
- Bloody = By Our Lady
- By George = By God
- By golly = By God's body
- By gosh = By God
- By gum = By God
- By Jove = By God
- Cheese n' Rice = Jesus Christ
- Chrissakes = For Christ's sake
- Christmas = Christ
- Cor blimey = God blind me
- Crikey = Christ
- Criminy = Christ
- Cripes = Christ
- Crivvens = Christ defend us
- Dad gum = God d--n
- Dagnammit = Damnation, God d--n it
- Dagnabbit = Damnation, God d--n it
- Dang = Damn
- Dangnabbit = Damnation, God d--n it
- Dangnation = Damnation
- Darn = Damn
- Darnation = Damnation
- Doggone = God d--n or Dog on it
- Drat = God rot it
- Egad = A God
- For crying out loud = For Christ's sake
- Gadzooks = God's hooks (referring to the nails in Jesus on the cross)
- Gat Dangit = God d--n it
- G.D. (pronounced "jee dee") = God d--n
- Gee = Jesus or Jerusalem
- Gee whizz = Jesus
- Gee willikers = Jesus or Jerusalem
- Gorblimey = God blind me
- Good grief = Good God
- Goodness gracious = Good God
- Gosh = God
- Gosh darned = God d--ned
- Heck = Hell
- Jason Crisp = Jesus Christ
- Jebus = Jesus
- Jeepers Creepers = Jesus Christ
- Jeez = Jesus
- Jeezy Creezy = Jesus Christ
- Jehoshaphat = Jesus
- Jesus wept = Jesus Christ
- Jiminy Christmas = Jesus Christ
- Jiminy Cricket = Jesus Christ
- Judas Priest = Jesus Christ
- Jumping Jehoshaphat = Jumping Jesus
- My goodness = My God
- Sacré bleu = "sacred blue" = Sang de Dieu ("God's blood")
- Sam Hill = Hell
- Suffering succotash = Suffering Saviour
- Tarnation = Damnation
- Yumping Yiminy = Jumping Jesus
- Zounds or 'Swounds = God's wounds