What is the Anglican equivalent of "sput!!!"

[pmcleanj]

"Sput!!!" (pronounced with a germanic "sp") is what my elder daughter's Lutheran godparents say in response to something so shockingly unorthodox as to leave them otherwise speechless. It's what you say when out of the blue, your darling eleven-year-old announces "I think Saint Paul is a hypocrite", or your husband suggests that the Book of Alternative Services might be more accessible a worship form than the BCP, or the choir director suggests forgoing the Exultet this year. Needless to say, it's used with humour and a self-deprecating mockery; a kind of an admission of your own newly-realized rigid thinking.

Our Eastern Orthodox brethren and 'sistren' seem to get similar milage out of "Is Outrage!" (or the longer form, "Is Outrage! Was it BAS in nineteenth century Russia? It was NOT!")

But short of a calm, reasoned paragraph along the lines of "Oh, my. I had never considered that viewpoint. I find it quite shocking! Perhaps that seems strange to you, but I will need a minute to get used to the idea that you might hold such a view" -- which works but makes me feel oddly like Miss Silver discovering a murder weapon -- I've never hit on an Anglicized version.

Could it be that stiff upper lip of ours?

[gitlance]

I shake my head and cross myself. ;)

Hehehe.

It would be sorta like this: :doh::crossrc:

[RobNJ]

I'd either go "ancestral": Uff Da! or (never mind)
"local": Uffa! or (never mind)
or "Transcendent": Oy Vey!

[CFoxDWH]

"Yeah, Spong says that too."

[trooper]

As an Anglican these days, I have simply ceased to be shocked by any sput level heresy.

Quietly, maybe, I do the gitlance version.

[AveMaria]

According to a very good friend of mine from church, my version of "SPUT!" is to exclaim, "Jesus, Mary & Joseph!", followed by rapidly crossing myself and then shaking my head slowly.

[masuwerte]

My wife's native language is Cebuano, which is spoken in the southern Philippines, and they have the perfect word for this situation: "ambot", pronounced like ahm-BOAT. This term is an expression of shocked disbelief, with a connotation of disapproval. I wish we had an equivalent in English.

[PaladinValer]

I simply just say "heresy" just because there isn't an Anglican term for it...

Perhaps the wise, venerable, and every so witty and supremely intelligent Queen Mum can dream a term up? :)

[chalice_thunder]

I prefer "Meadow Muffins."

[SirTimothy]

My response--in the Cypriot vernacular--"Ade, re!" (Ah-Deh, Reh)

Timothy

[higgs2]

"Oh my" works for me. Or when I'm really speechless: "Good grief".

[Naomi4Christ]

I think probably "pfffuhhh"

[karen freeinchristman]

"Oh my" works for me. Or when I'm really speechless: "Good grief".
You sound like my granny! :D

[higgs2]

You sound like my granny! :D

I have a friend who tells me that too, but it's because I wear the same perfume as her grandmother. :)

What's your granny like?

[karen freeinchristman]

I have a friend who tells me that too, but it's because I wear the same perfume as her grandmother. :)

What's your granny like?
:) My granny is a wonderful lady. 92 this year. She was originally from Kansas, and still has some of that accent - like she will say 'warsh' the clothes, and 'tomata' instead of 'tomato'... She is only tiny, about 5 ft (and shrinking), and my grandpa was very tall. She has always held herself high, though, no slouching for this one - very dignified (unlike me :sorry: ). They moved from Kansas to California just after my father was born. Like pioneers, they were!

[higgs2]

:) My granny is a wonderful lady. 92 this year. She was originally from Kansas, and still has some of that accent - like she will say 'warsh' the clothes, and 'tomata' instead of 'tomato'... She is only tiny, about 5 ft (and shrinking), and my grandpa was very tall. She has always held herself high, though, no slouching for this one - very dignified (unlike me :sorry: ). They moved from Kansas to California just after my father was born. Like pioneers, they were!

She sounds amazing!

[Ahazmat]

Rubbish.

It works for me.

[No Swansong]

Actually I recently picked one up from our friend Ray "heiferdust"

[Torah613]

I'd either go "ancestral": Uff Da! or (never mind)
"local": Uffa! or (never mind)
or "Transcendent": Oy Vey!
Rob, I didn't realize you were one of us!

L'chayim!

Yochanan

[Colabomb]

What the (insert language I'm ashamed of here)!!!