My one unpopular (and probably outright stupid) belief about sports is that athletes should absolutely be allowed to fight fans, especially the ones rich enough to afford courtside seats.
Prescriptivism Must Die!
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Psycholinguist, and the guy who used to write Motivated Grammar. He/him. Erstwhile blogger: motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com Prosecute ICE and send Homan to the Hague.
!["The [17th] century also indulged a variety of oaths, blasphemous or otherwise. Plays were awash with them and as examples these turn up regularly on stage. For instance, ads meant God's and came in such compounds as adsblood! adsbleed! adsbud! Adsbudikins! adsheart! ad’s (heart’s) wounds! (also ad’s heartlikins! ... heartliwounds! ... waudds! ... waunds! ... wauntlikins!), adslife! (also adslidikins! ads my life, adsnigs! adso! (God's oath!) and adsooks! adzooks! or ads wooks! Gad played a parallel role, giving gadsbobs! (also gadsbud!) gadsbodikins! (also gadsbudakins!) gadslid! gadsnigs! gadsnouns! (also gad-zoons! gadzounds!) gadso! gadsokers! (also gadsookers! gad-zookers!) gadsprecious! gadswogs! gadswoons! (also gad zoons!) and gadzooks! (also gadsooks! gadzookens! gadzookikins!). All these and many more invoked God's blood, body, heart, wounds, nails and the synonymous ‘hooks’ and so on. ‘God’ was generally Christ in this context, thus the references to the crucifixion. Only ‘nigs’ remains a mystery: the OED dismisses it as ‘not found in other contexts, and probably ... corrupt or fabricated’."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5umbpor2jx3i4a7g5gureesq/bafkreihbuhgmoj3znppxulitsgt7lhgu7g6g3ot35t5gfc65zuyrf2l724)
