Talk:oh my days

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I can't find usage of this as a unit. I can find "Oh! My days ....". I also don't find support for "my days" being a euphemism for "my God". But perhaps someone has a better intuition. DCDuring TALK 21:07, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

Three relevant hits at google books:"oh my days i|he|it|she|they|we|you". All "snippets", though.​—msh210℠ 21:25, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

I've added one and might dig up more later. The phrase is definitely real; I'm not certain about the euphemism for "my God" (though I believe I originally suggested that on here — somebody created the entry from my WT:REE request), but it's the impression I got from a few people who used to say it. Equinox ◑ 20:21, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

I'd have thought there would be more sound similarity if it were directly from "oh my god". Could it be from Anglo-Norman, French, Italian, Portuguese? Or somehow from "in all my days", perhaps as an eggcorn? I can't find anything from any dictionary, except lots of uses of "in all my days" for an expression of surprise or shocked outrage/offense. DCDuring TALK 21:05, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Cited. I also included a cite for "oh my heavenly days" (which IMHO indicates the probable origin of the phrase — not a euphemism for "oh my G-d", but rather, a shortening of a slightly different oath) and one for "oh my fucking days" (which suggests to me that at least one speaker doesn't consider it much of a euphemism). On the basis of what I've found — the 1907 cite in the entry, and a bunch of the hits at google books:"my heavenly days" — I'm not sure that the "oh" itself is really an essential part of the interjection. (Which makes sense to me, since IMHO the same is true of other "oh my ____" interjections.) We should maybe move the entry to my days. Whether or not we do that, we should also add a redirect from a version with "heavenly", or else we should have a full entry for that version. —Ruakh_TALK 02:35, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

Deus

Do you all think there is a possibility the 'days' part might come from Deus or Dios?

Not really. Who would say "oh my Deus" in the first place, mixing languages like that? Equinox ◑ 15:22, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

why?

https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=oh_my_days&diff=prev&oldid=42540425 --NoToleranceForIntolerance (talk) 06:01, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

oh my days

I may be wrong but I believe it actually came from a saying "In all my live long days!" which shows not only that something is noted as being unexpected but that it has not been know to happen in a long time. The slight difference in meaning no longer making sense to have originally been "My God!" - that would more likely have been altered to "My goodness!" for those not wanting to blaspheme. --Siouxhart (talk) 15:14, 8 December 2018 (UTC)Siouxhart