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    Why Do People Say "Jesus H. Christ," and Where Did the "H" Come From? | Mental Floss

    however, presumably sometime in the early 19th century, ignorant Americans who were accustomed to the Latin alphabet and who knew nothing of the Greek alphabet mistook the letters of the IHϹ monogram for the Latin letters J, H, and C. They concluded that the J must stand for "Jesus" and the C must stand for "Christ," but then no one could figure out what the H stood for. Apparently, some people just concluded, "Hey, I guess H must be his middle initial!"
    Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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    No mate, seriously, it isn't.
    Old Greg - In search of acceptance since Mar 2007. Hoping each leap will be his last.

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      #3
      I assumed it was a jokey short form of "Jesus Holy Christ"
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        #4
        Harold. As in: Our Father, who art in heaven, Harold by thy name.
        Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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          Jesus F Christ

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