Re: OT: the real meaning of SH*T

[ant skelton <ant@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 08 October 2002 15:09, you wrote:

> "Ship High In Transit."

>From wordorigins.org:

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Shit is a very old word, with an Old English root. *Sc=EDtan is the Old Eng= lish
word. It has cognates in most of the other Germanic languages and shares a =
common Germanic root with modern equivalents like the German scheissen.
*Sc=EDtan, however, doesn't appear in extant Old English texts and is only =
assumed to have existed in Old English. The verb to shit dates the Middle <= BR> English period (c. 1308), and the noun form is from the 16th century. The <= BR> interjection is of quite recent vintage, not found until the 1920s.

In 2002, an alleged acronymic origin for shit appeared on the Internet. According to this tale, the word is from an acronym for Ship High In Transi= t,
referring to barges carrying manure. This is a complete fabrication and absurd on its face. All it takes to disprove it is to look up the word in a= ny
decent dictionary. Remember, anytime someone posits an acronymic word origi= n,
chances are that it is utterly false.

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Interestingly (well, to me anyway) of the swearwords that we refer to as Anglo-saxon, only three of them actually are; shit being one, arse and turd=
being the others.


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