The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #41348   Message #596596
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
20-Nov-01 - 03:03 PM
Thread Name: BS: Pronunciation over there
Subject: RE: BS: Pronunciation over there
Shit and Shite are both widely -and historically- used in the UK (from O.E. scitan), though as GUEST remarked, the former has the edge in currency.  Shite is probably the more common form in Ireland, but that pronounciation didn't originate there.