Got talking about acceptable swearwords (again) and the origins of words like "bloke".
Scooby Doo's (or rather Shaggy's) "Zounds" is of course a contraction of the blasphemous "God's wounds". In performances of the work of that old potty-mouth Shakespeare, they don't pronounce it to rhyme with "sounds".
So go on then, what's "Zoinks" short for? Bonus points if you are funny.
Saturday, January 27, 2007
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