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Off-Color Etymology
A word that surely had to go
Folks pronounced it 'Knee-grow'
Just as with 'shi-tte'
~ It took a big hitt-e
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Note: 'sbitte' is Chaucerian-era Middle
English, pronounced 'shi-teh' and mean-
ing 'brown.' Today, we impatient moderns
spell it with only four letters.
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Gershon Wolf
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