Gorram by Schism

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Gorram

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UPDATED: Sunday, February 8, 2009 13:23
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Sunday, February 8, 2009 11:40 AM

SCHISM

Is that meant to be an amalgam of words?
Or is it simply just a bastardization of 'god damn'?

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Sunday, February 8, 2009 11:58 AM

BYTEMITE

I do wonder about the etymology of that word. It definitely has some roots in "goddamn" because of the alternate form "gorrammit."

But WHERE could the r's have come from?

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Sunday, February 8, 2009 1:23 PM

CYBERSNARK

"D" to "r" is a reasonably well-documented sound-change (note the position of your tongue when pronouncing each, then just "stretch" the "d" sound and part your teeth). ISTR that there are a few "d-to-r" shifted words in contemporary use in. . . either southern US or regions of England. Can't rightly recall which.

Languages do stuff like that all the time (check out Old English sometime). Hell, we've even dropped a couple of letters (for the "th" and long-a sounds).

þas ofereode, þisses swa mæ.

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