[Ads-l] shits 'diarrhea'

[Laurence Horn]

I like “the Georgia Shitts”.  Sounds like a sports franchise (and the geminate would get it past censors, although not past my spellcheck).

LH

> On Mar 30, 2018, at 2:25 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> Early:
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> 1864 in _Georgia Historical Qly._ LXX (1986) 707: I expect to be as tough
> as a knot as soon as I get over the Georgia shitts [sic].
> 
> JL
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