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[Grant Barrett]

That's nice synchronicity: yesterday I took down some citations from a
blogger in Detroit using "ish" in place "shit," and added it to my
queue of terms to research further. It's easy to search for if you use
pat phrases: "give/gave/giving a/an ish/isht"; "knock/kick/smack the
ish/isht," "full of ish/isht", "talk/talked/talking ish/isht," etc.

Here's the blogger:

http://lifeintextformat.blogspot.com/2005/03/things-i-hate-about-
work.html

Grant Barrett
gbarrett at worldnewyork.org

On Mar 10, 2005, at 10:50, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:

> from an undergrad student of mine.  any sightings or citings?  (or, for
> that matter, sitings?)
>
> not in our archives...
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>> 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?
>