Fwd: if you're ever looking for a new project

[Jonathan Lighter]

This question was raised on Usenet as far back as 1999.  I've never encountered it before now, though.

Many of the hits, however, must just be typos.

JL

"Arnold M. Zwicky" <zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU> wrote:
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from an undergrad student of mine. any sightings or citings? (or, for
that matter, sitings?)

not in our archives...

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>
> this goes back to middle school (i remember it saying it then)
>
> recently, i've noticed that a lot of people have been saying 'isht'
> instead of 'shit'. a google search brings up phrases like 'do not
> read this boring isht', 'old isht', 'becca's page of random isht!',
> and, my favorite, 'weird isht i feel like posting whilst st0ned!' .
> it's difficult to just do a google search of this phrase because there
> is at least one organization that uses the acronym ISHT for its name.
> is the use of this phrase documented at all?


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