[Iris7]

Well, google failed me on this one. "When in worry or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout." Sounds and meter come from a Germanic language, through Middle English, not Latin nor Semitic, and old Greek is Greek to me. Maybe from the Eurasian steppe or even farther back. Most of our swear words come from Germanic languages.

I became convinced that salty language in the Navy style has endured for millennia. The true swab who can't speak the language would have as his first spoken word "Sh__" and his second "moth__ ______". The third is "Aye Aye, Sir."

[snippy_about_it]

The true swab who can't speak the language would have as his first spoken word "Sh__" and his second "moth__ ______". The third is "Aye Aye, Sir."

You know my mother was Navy and she always said I had the mouth of a sailor. LOL.