Oh, I thought that was the… just… regulat step. hehe.
I guess for some sort of vaguely-serious discussion^[which I find interesting but most others don’t lol], without doing any research, I think Jesus / Jesus Christ has stably evolved to Gee, with some variants like Gee Whiz being pretty common. I think Gee Willikers was more common around the TV Batman era and so now it’s less said straight and more said ironically. heh. I can’t think of any other common “Gee [something]”… maybe “Geezie Kreezie”, but I’ve only heard that from Suzy^[previously Eddie] Izzard, so not sure if that’s common or not. lol
It definitely got short; I wonder if we’d count a second word as it getting longer, or a second word replacing “Christ”. These are the types of inconsequential discussions I love. :)
jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Was going to add “Gee Whiz” which comes before that one? Like it got shorter, then it got longer again?
daychilde@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh, I thought that was the… just… regulat step. hehe.
I guess for some sort of vaguely-serious discussion^[which I find interesting but most others don’t lol], without doing any research, I think Jesus / Jesus Christ has stably evolved to Gee, with some variants like Gee Whiz being pretty common. I think Gee Willikers was more common around the TV Batman era and so now it’s less said straight and more said ironically. heh. I can’t think of any other common “Gee [something]”… maybe “Geezie Kreezie”, but I’ve only heard that from Suzy^[previously Eddie] Izzard, so not sure if that’s common or not. lol
It definitely got short; I wonder if we’d count a second word as it getting longer, or a second word replacing “Christ”. These are the types of inconsequential discussions I love. :)
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s like nicknames. First it’s Joseph, then Joe, then Alexander Jonaparte.