Quote ="Bobby_Peru"My old English teacher at Penketh High once spent a class teaching us the origins of various swear words. It was one of the more enjoyable lessons that year!
e.g: 'Bloody Hell' derives from the Elizabethan phrase 'By our dear lady in hell''"
Mr Hughes! I remember this. He said that if you said "by our lady in hell" really fast it became "bloody hell". I always assumed he made this up to see if anyone would believe it, coz it doesn't really does it? That and I've never heard it repeated anywhere since, until now.
