Although Americans get the prize for repetitive usage of crude profanities the British never cease to amaze me. Visiting my favorite blog today, http://www.lucypepper.com/blogzira/ I noticed the use of the word "shite." Now I never imagined that they had their own spelling for that oft used multipurpose American adjective-noun-adverb.
So I researched the word and found the ever trustworthy Wikipedia definitions. I don't mean to be crude but go there and check out the etymology and usage. We wet our pants.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shit
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"Shite" it´s the ancient word, obviously of saxonic origin. Phonetically it´s closer than your current modern-day world "shit" to the german version scheisse.
It´s still often used in northern England, Scotland and Eire.
Ooops...where I wrote "modern-day WORLD", please read "modern-day WORD":)
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