[Sca-cooks] RE: Sodding

[Robyn.Hodgkin at affa.gov.au]

If it is any comfort Cecily, most Australians probably wouldn't really consider "sodding" to be a swear word at all, and I reckon more than a few would think its etymology was from "sod" (clump of dirt) rather than anything more... in depth.

Your daughter could claim that this was the etymology if anyone asked her what sodding meant. Certainly we wouldn't hesitate in saying publicly to someone in Drakey's current colourful circumstances: "You poor sod, what are you going to do now?"

But then, we are also happy enough to say to a friend admiringly " you randy bugger!" when they 'get lucky', so you do have to worry about us Aussies...

Kiriel


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Patricia Collum [mailto:pjc2 at cox.net]
>Sent: Wednesday, 30 October 2002 5:33 PM
>To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Drakey's latest accident story...
>
>I actually gave her an idea what it meant, it's more along the
>idea of who
>she might offend in the future if she uses it, or how much...
>its a mommy
>thing. At sixteen the info is more effective then a "don't say
>that" from
>mom.
>
>Cecily