My wife would like to know...

My wife would like to know what the godly response is if (hypothetically speaking) one were to knock over a pint of water while staying in someone elses house.

In particular is, "Oh shhhhhhhh... dear!", a godly response?

Being a Christian wife, my wife first asked her own husband at home, but being not entirely satisfied with the answer, we decided to put it out to tender.

A classicist friend of mine tells me that while there is obviously gutter language in the ancient world, the ancients did not have our Victorian concept of rude words or swear words as such. Swearing was done using oaths to the gods: "O! Jupiter!" when one subbed ones toe and so on.

Sexual swear words are obviously wrong since they profane something holy but I'm not so sure that other so called swear words are off limits.

Luther is notoriously scatalogical, even if it is for polemical purposes.

Thoughts?