Gorram

POSTED BY: Schism
UPDATED: Sunday, February 8, 2009 23:23
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SCHISM

Sunday, February 8, 2009 9:40 PM

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

BYTEMITE

Sunday, February 8, 2009 9:58 PM

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?

CYBERSNARK

Sunday, February 8, 2009 11:23 PM

"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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