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In the 1800's it was considered taboo to use certain religious words as swear words or interjections.
So ordinary people started using similar sounding but different words as swear words.
The most common ones were
Geez or Jeez for Jesus
and
Crickey (Cri-key) for Christ
Nowadays, however
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