Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:48 AM 11/27/2000 -0500, Simon Stevens wrote: >My understanding is that bloody is a corruption of "by our lady" - i.e. >refering to the Virgin Mary. The derivation, and connotation (which has >largely been lost anyway) are therefore completely different. > This is a mythical back-formation. All lexicographers seem united in simply saying that the derivation is from, well, "bloody" - just the use of an unseemly concept as a mild expletive. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!