OATHS

Promises of allegiance

• #@*! and such

• Drat! and Egad!

• Drat! and Shazam!

• Egads! and Gadzooks!

• Gosh darn! and worse

• Nerts! and others

• Rats! and others

• Rats! et al.

• Affirmations

• Allegiance affirmations

• Blasphemous terms

• Bleeped words

• Blue language

• Blue utterances

• Boy Scouts take them

• Breakable words

• Court proceedings

• Court rituals

• Court statements

• Courtroom rituals

• Courtroom statements

• Curse words

• Curses

• Cusswords

• Don't lie under them

• Egad and drat

• Expletives

• Formal promises

• Four-letter words

• Four-letter words, sometimes

• Hippocratic and Boy Scout

• I do's

• Imprecations

• Inaugural recitations

• Inauguration Day vows

• Jurors take them

• Officeholders take them

• Offices may require them

• People raise their hands for them

• Pledges

• Presidential affirmations

• Promises

• Promises crop around height (5)

• Promising words

• Recitals showing promise

• Ritualistic declarations

• Salty language

• Scouts take them

• Solemn appeals

• Solemn attestations

• Solemn pledges

• Solemn promises

• Solemn sayings

• Solemn statements

• Solemn vows

• Solemn words

• Some are solemn

• Statements taken by officials

• Swear words

• Swearing

• Swearing to tell the truth, and others

• Swearing-in ceremonies

• Swearing-in pledges

• Swearing-in words

• Sworn promises

• Sworn statements

• Sworn words

• They involve swearing

• They make people raise their hands

• They may be bleeped

• They may be made with Bibles

• They may be taken on bibles

• They may be taken with a hand in the air

• They may be taken with a raised hand

• They're given in court

• They're sworn

• They're taken in court

• They're taken in courtrooms

• They're taken on stands

• They're taken on the stand

• Trial rituals

• Unprintable outbursts

• Verbal commitments

• Vows

• Vows or curses

• Wedding promises

• Witness stand statements

• Words of honor

• You don't want to lie under them