I use it myself and certainly wouldn't consider myself a redneck but I
accept that it's origins may well spring from there.
Chuck Norcutt
Piers Hemy wrote:
> Curiously, Chuck, I was about to partially agree with you, in that
> "euphemism" may not be the most accurate descriptor of the word in the way
> it is used. But only partially, because I was going to follow up with the
> rhetorical "Well, shoot, if shit ain't excrement, what *is* that I just
> stepped in?" :-)
>
> And by the way, the colleague I first [over]heard using the term has a
> resume including Mount Holyoke College and George Washington University -
> "redneck" would not describe her!
>
> Piers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Norcutt [mailto:chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 08 December 2009 14:53
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
> Subject: Re: [OM] Dunnies - was Nathan's PAW 48: point and shoot
>
> Well, I've never considered it such but Wiki tells me I'm wrong.
> "Shoot, redneck term for shit or damn."
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>> No doubt, but "shoot" used thataway is not a euphemism for excrement.
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>>
>> Piers Hemy wrote:
>>> "Well, shoot, who would've thought of that" is a usage I have heard
>>> many a time from your countrymen, Russ.
>>>
>>> Piers
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Russ Butler [mailto:rbinnj@xxxxxxxxxxx]
>>> Sent: 08 December 2009 13:36
>>> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
>>> Subject: Re: [OM] Dunnies - was Nathan's PAW 48: point and shoot
>>>
>>> Piers Hemy wrote:
>>>> So he is, but he did choose the subject "... and shoot", which I
>>>> believe is a popular American English exclamation, a euphemism for
>>>> excrement. Just desserts?
>>>>
>>> I is amurkin but ain't never heared "shoot" used thataway.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Russ Butler (NJ USA)
>>>
>>>
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