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From: alderson@netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: Jesus H. Christ !!!
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In article <kosciuka.2.000B21F6@wl.aecl.ca> kosciuka@wl.aecl.ca
(Andrzej Kosciuk) writes:

>I've always wondered what does the "H" stand for?

When I was a child, I only heard the initial, but some time after high school I
ran into someone who said "Jesus Henry God!" in the same context.  So my vote
is for Henry. ;->
-- 
Rich Alderson   You know the sort of thing that you can find in any dictionary
                of a strange language, and which so excites the amateur philo-
                logists, itching to derive one tongue from another that they
                know better: a word that is nearly the same in form and meaning
                as the corresponding word in English, or Latin, or Hebrew, or
                what not.
                                                --J. R. R. Tolkien,
alderson@netcom.com                               _The Notion Club Papers_
