>I think that's unlikely. My dictionary gives the same origin for >'shit' and 'shite' (linguistically. Biologically of course they have >the same origin), namely 'scitan' from the Old English, with ancestry >going back through the normal Germanic line. If there's a similar word >in Celtic it's probably because of a common ancestor. > >The OE past participle was 'scitten' which probably led to the normal >'shit' pronunciation of today, but 'scitan' would apparently have been >pronounced to rhyme with 'heighten'.
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