THEORY: CHAT verbal curiosities (was THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation)
| From: | Chris Peters <alpha_leonis@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 17, 1999, 0:43 |
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> >
> >No, analogy. sit-sat, shit-shat. But the original verb was
> >shite-shit-shitten, like bite; I believe in Ireland "shite" is
> >still current? (My father, born in an Irish enclave in Philadelphia
> >in 1904, used it regularly).
>
... a UK-born Canadian acquaintance of mine used "shite" regularly when we
were living together. Little old American me seems to have picked it up,
along with the equivalent "scheiB", from a fluent German-speaking Australian
co-worker I had at the same time. (Pick a language, any language ... )
-- chris
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