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Etymology: Seventeenth-century British variant of oh my God, likely intended to avoid blasphemy<ref>http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-yeg1.htm "Ye gods and little fishes!" (World Wide Words)</ref><ref>http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:1Vzxh_H1XEcJ:newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4136,93299,00.html "Gosh, we can't leave God alone when we speak" (The Electric New Paper News)</ref>.

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