Re: USAGE: The four shits in English

A Rosta scripsit:

> What about "pigshit" = stupid (because one is "as thick (=stupid)
> as pigshit").
Not known to me, but I cheerfully add it to the list of six,
no, seven excrement metaphors.

> Also in Australian there's "ratshit", similar to "bloody". My aunt
> shocked people by saying it all the time when she was a nun. She
> thought she was saying "wretched". (Try saying them in Australian
> accent - they're very close in sound.)
Um, is this perhaps a mere transcription error?  Someone said
"wretched", someone else misheard it as "ratshit"?  (Not necessarily
in your aunt's case, but in general.)

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