Citations:Christer
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English citations of Christer
- 1921, H. L. Mencken, The American Language, 5. Expletives and Forbidden Words
- The word Christer has two meanings in England. It is used by printers to designate an exclamation point, and by other people in a sense which I can best explain by illustration. A Harvard professor, an Englishman, was discussing a certain English journalist then in this country, and he said to me: ‘Oh, he’s a simply fearful Christer; preaches in chapel every Sunday, and all that.’