I learned something on the internet today!

Iesous (in the Greek), romanizes and abbreviates to

IHS, from which letters and sounds shift to

JHS, carved into church pews even now, which is sometimes expanded into

–> Jesus Hominum Salvator, a Latin backronym. But it also just shifted into

JHC, from which modern-type folks extrapolate,

"Jesus H. Christ!"


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