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1. almost 13 years ago on Luann

   “Ta” means thank you. “Croiky” would be an Aussie pronunciation of “crikey”.

   My dad is from England and my mom from Scotland. They both used “ta” and my mom said “crikey” all the time. She didn’t think it had anything to do with Jesus, or she wouldn’t have used the expression, her being Jewish. (Jews just don’t go around talking about Jesus, in any context.) It was just something everybody said all the time. If the original meaning had been cursing, it had been forgotten by the time my mom and her contemporaries (she was born in 1920) used the expression. And long forgotten by now.

   Me, I’m Canadian and we don’t widely use those expressions.