The word golf first appeared in the 15th century. There are several theories as to where it came from, but no one ever suggested the acronym theory until the 20th century.
I'm a fan of goulash in all its forms, and there are many. There's the American dish of ground beef, tomato sauce, peppers, and pastaâa dish that I knew as American chop suey while growing up in the Northeast. Then there's the classic Hungarian version, with small cubes of beef or pork in a brothy, soup-like stew flavored with paprika.
The oldest example of gosh as a watered down oath or exclamation meaning âGodâ in the historically-arranged Oxford English Dictionary is from a 1757 play by an English dramatist, Samuel Foote: âThen thereâs the highest â and lowest, by Gosh.â Gosh subsequently was elaborated into many picturesque combinations.