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From: aa318@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (John Coughlin)
Subject: Re: "Chier" and "shit"
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In a previous posting, Louis Biggie (avlb@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu) writes:
> I always thought (or perhaps assumed) that "shit" was releated to the
> word "shed."

You are correct.  Althought I don't have the reference handy to supply a
quotation, I recall that Ayto's _Dictionary of Word Origins_ traces "shit"
and the verb "to shed" back to a proto-Germanic (or maybe it was PIE?)
common ancestor.  The general idea is that when we excrete we shed a part
of our body.
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