# When Did People Stop Using Expletives "Gadzooks" and "Zounds"?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 5, 2012, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-people-stop-using-expletives-gadzooks-and-zounds/611857 "2012-02-05T13:19:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-people-stop-using-expletives-gadzooks-and-zounds/611857/41 "2012-02-17T21:32:25Z")

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> [@DHMO](#):
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> It wasn’t so much an exclamation, as it was the ultimate pejorative of a list of authors of “dirty books” (Chaucer! Rabelais! _ **Ballllzac** _!) which [Marian Paroo](http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0019884/) (Shirley Jones) the librarian was recommending to the youngsters in town.
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> The character was the wife of the Mayor of River City (Paul Ford), [Eulalie Mackechnie Shinn](http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0019892/).

You watch your phraseology! (Mayor Shinn in reply to Tommy’s “Great Honk!”)

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