For those of us who are less likely to have encountered it, the previous is a riff of an old Guinness ad campaign in which a gentleman had an expression of surprise as some cute animal has made off with his beer:
My Goodness! My Guinness!
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
My Goodness! My Guinness!
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll