2012年5月20日 · Incidentally, gosh is one of the few words in my native dialect (DeKalb County, IL) that gets gratuitous rhoticization. That is, I speak the variety of Midwestern English that says "garsh", as well as "warsh" and "Warshington". Those are the only words that get it.

2021年11月4日 · To a certain kind of religious mentality, "gosh" is a euphemism for God, just as "hades" is a euphemism for Hell. euphemism - "a mild or pleasant word or phrase that is used instead of one that is unpleasant or offensive." Once a euphemism, nowadays it's just an interjection. gosh - used as a mild oath or to express surprise.

2013年12月16日 · What are the differences between them? Is there a cultural and/or social interference? Do young people say "Oh my Gosh" more than others?

2016年9月21日 · In an episode of the TV show Ghost and Mrs Muir, the pre-teen daughter Candace has a line where she says, Guy Grandpa, you sound like a grumpy bear. [Guy being pronounced as rhyming with buy] I personally remember as a child in the 60s, a very strict and religious family in our neighborhood that all said "guy" instead of "gosh" or "gee" so as not to …

2012年4月6日 · Honest to gosh, you’d think they just wanted to hang out at a resort casino spa.” I understand “ Honest to gosh ” be an equivalent to “honest to God,” and simply means “honestly speaking,” but I don’t find this phrase in most of English dictionaries. Is “ Honest to gosh ” more popular idiom than “honest to God”?

2014年9月3日 · Well, really, by Gosh is a euphemism for by God which is an exclamation of mild surprise especially when the surprise arises from finding that something is true when you thought it wasn't.

2018年12月13日 · I'm interested here with the case of "Oh my Gosh", which is used instead of "Oh my God". Now, according to this answer, the first time this word was used as replacement for God was in the 16th century by Nicholas Udall, who was himself a religious person (at one point he became a vicar, actually).

2017年5月3日 · In the song Jeepers creepers by Louis Armstrong, there is a line that goes like this: Oh, gosh all, git up, how'd they get so lit up? It refers to the eyes of a person. My question is: what does "

2011年9月5日 · The Phrase Doctor writes that my goodness is a minced oath: My goodness --> My God My gosh --> My God So the phrase was used instead of swearing, with goodness being a euphemism. The Oxford English Dictionary adds that goodness! has an established meaning in this vein, writing: In various exclamatory phrases, in which the original reference was to the …

2014年5月13日 · While reading the satirical novel A Confederacy of Dunces, I was struck by the protagonist's habit of expressing his vexation with the phrase "Oh, my God." I don't recall seeing a comma inserted i...