"What do you mean?! Clear up some commonly misunderstood slang words from your country."It's seems I'm having a very Aussie night. Everything just seems to be steering in the true blue direction
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On request from another LJer, I looked up the history of "criminy", which apparently derived from "Jiminy Cricket", a turn of phrase invented well before Disney had used it. It was a substitute for saying 'Jesus Christ' without evoking the lord's name in vain.
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On request from another LJer, I looked up the history of "criminy", which apparently derived from "Jiminy Cricket", a turn of phrase invented well before Disney had used it. It was a substitute for saying 'Jesus Christ' without evoking the lord's name in vain.
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