My Grandma, born in Wales, used to say "ych a fi" (pronounced emphatically as uck a vee) on a lot of occasions to express frustration or annoyance. Apparently it is meaningless, like "oh me, oh my".

A friend of ours uses "what the flock?" and flocking, and my hubby says ferckling, which is said slowly. He uses the f-word extremely rarely, and it is a gauge of how spitting mad he is if he uses it. Like, get-out-of-his-way mad.

Which reminds me of one of Oz's funniest, cleverest comedian/satirists, John Clarke. He did a long, straight faced monologue on a fictional sport called farnarkling.

Dag is a useful Oz term, originally meaning the bits of poo which hang off the wool near a sheep's behind, but now transmogrified into a useful term to describe a person who is silly, or nerdy. Daggy is used to describe clothing or style which no one would be seen dead in.

What about the Brit term, flippin' 'eck (flipping heck)?

And Foolestroope seems to have invented a new exclamation: Ah, Pratchett!

Helen