Forum: Writers


Subject: A clean expletive?

Tilandra opened this issue on Jan 20, 2004 ยท 79 posts


gps posted Tue, 20 January 2004 at 10:45 PM

A popular 'light' expletive here in the north of England is 'bugger' (probably corrupted from 'beggar'), as in 'yer daft bugger', 'oh bugger', and the less frequently-used exclamation 'well bugger me', a phrase which has since given rise to a joke concerning a magic lamp, a startled Yorkshireman, and a very literal genie ;)