On 4 Mar, 02:02, John Hall <nospam_no...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In article <nduJAFHxUGzHF...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Molly Mockford <nospamnob...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>
> >Since it was Thomas Carlyle who made the riposte to Margaret Fuller's
> >perhaps unfortunate statement, I think that "Gad, she'd better!", as
> >generally quoted, is a smidgeon more probable than "Gosh".
>
> >Although I am rather drawn by the idea of Carlyle saying "Gosh"! :-)
>
> We a;; know that what he _really_ said was "Golly, golly, gumdrops." :)
> --
> John Hall
> "If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in
doubts;
> but if he will be content to begin with doubts,
> he shall end in certainties." Francis Bacon
(1561-1626)
Nah! "Ten Thousand Blistering Barnacles" is the expletive that
scholars have often credited as being Carlyle's original contribution
to the English tongue.
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