Oh! Circe!

[resonant]

I've stopped thinking of this as a practical problem and started thinking of it as a linguistic puzzle.

What would wizards use where we use blasphemy?

The elements? "Fire and water, I could use a drink just now."

Place names important in the history of magic? "Will you stop that awful noise? Salem, it's annoying."

Are there any Latin exclamations? The only one I remember from high school was io, which is pronounced more or less "yo" and thus would add an unfortunate bit of MTVishness to the proceedings.

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Ooo sorry - one last thought. Shakespeare is full of insults which manage to avoid use of the word 'fuck' - "ronyon", "rat-catcher"... and now I can't think of any more. Probably a Google search for Shakespeare swearing or Shakespeare insults might throw a site up. There are a whole slew of English words which also sound rude but aren't (or aren't much) - dastard, pillock, sot, feculent...

Mmmkay, shutting up now!