Talk:great Scott

So it's not from grüß Gott ? —Soap— 02:36, 15 July 2021 (UTC)

This has been suggested by others too (see Great Scott), but it doesn't seem very plausible that a German greeting would be borrowed into 19th-century (initially American) English as an exclamation of amazement. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 14:03, 5 July 2023 (UTC)