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It is surely a clear sign that I am a language geek that when I see the word \u201cGeez<\/a>\u201d written somewhere, the first thing I think of is not the shortened way of saying \u201cJesus\u201d to express surprise or frustration\u2026<\/p>\n

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\u2026but rather something that looks like this:<\/p>\n

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