In a conversation with one Emily Harris (now Loney) in Espresso Royale Cafe in Ann Arbor, MI, I was driven to declare, "obscurity is the mother of niches." As I walked out it occurred to me that if obscurity became grandmother of a male child, that child would be a son of a niche.
Dare I continue? I dare:
I have heard "son of a witch" as a euphemism for the original phrase. The German pronunciation of {w} is /v/; thus someone with a German accent would pronounce that phrase "son of a vitch." In Russian, however, it is {b} that makes the /v/ sound. Thus, if one overheard a person exclaim "son of a vitch!", one would have trouble telling whether the person were a German speaker employing the witch euphemism or a Russian speaker with a pottymouth.
vat could vee interestinger?
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