Now, where I am coming from is South Welsh of a good many decades away, when "Hell" nd "Devil" were both taboo and replaced by "Blazes" (and when "sick" was in every sense a four letter word). But on top of that I ended up with a French education, which left me very confused about what used to be termed "Anglo Saxon expressions" because none of them had anything to do with Anglo Saxon (aka Old English) but all had French, and indeed Latin, cognates.