<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">R' Moshe Gluck wrote: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-monospace; ">I'm not sure why you think that this is recent or limited to English<br>speakers, but Kitzur Shulchan Aruch (6:3) already says to say Hashem.</span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">With all due respect to R' Moshe (who is totally correct), I fully concur with R' Yonatan Kaganoff regarding its usage. As a child in 50's I NEVER heard HaShem used other than Boruch ata HaShem so as not to make a b'rocho l'vatala. But when referring to God in conversation, we always said God. This was in Yeshiva circles, etc. etc.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">The fact that the Shulchan Aruch says to say HaShem may be referring to the context I just indicated but for general usage (even if the shulchan aruch meant that) in practice, I never heard it. It seems to have become popular later on.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">ri<br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><br></font></div></div></body></html>