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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not religious, but I try to reserve my utterances of "oh my god" and "god fucking damn it!" for when I'm at home, where no one else is religious. Around others, I say "oh my gosh" and "darn it." My husband makes fun of me for it. :D [/quote] Jesus H. Christ is one of the ones I grew up hearing and routinely use. Anyone know what the "H" stands for?[/quote] Two theories from the Straight Dope: It recalls the H in the IHS logo emblazoned on much Christian paraphernalia. IHS dates from the earliest years of Christianity, being an abbreviation of "Jesus" in classical Greek characters. The Greek pronunciation is "Iesous," with the E sound being represented by the character eta, which looks like an H. When the symbol passed to Christian Romans, for whom an H was an H, the unaccountable character eventually became accepted as Jesus's middle initial. Another theory is that the H derives from the taunting Latin inscription INRH that was supposedly tacked on the cross by Roman soldiers: Iesus Nazarenus, Rex Hebrei (Jesus the Nazarene, King of the Hebrews). Trouble is, the inscription is usually given as INRI: Iesus Nazarenus, Rex Iudaeorum (J.C., King of the Jews).[/quote]
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