I recently heard a story i have trouble beleiving. So tell me, where does the term **** come from?

Question

The story i heard was that in old wooden sailing ship days, the only fertilizer was manur. The story goes they would ship manur in dry bales. These old sailing ships however were leaky and bales on bottom would get wet and release methane. When someone with a lantern went below the methane would ignite destroying the ship. After losing several such ships, they began stamping the bales "ship high in transport", to keep them from getting wet. Over time this was abreveated. S.H.I.T.

Answer 1

Gosh all get out, how original!  Really!  Did you think that one up all by yourself?  Lemme ask ya something: since every country and every state and every province and every town and village ALL had plenty of livestock and all those critters produced tons of manure, why in h**l would anyone need to move it around on ships when all they had to do was walk out into the local barnyard with a shovel?

Answer 2

I think someone is telling you a lie.They never carried fertiliser in those days,the ships would have been too small.If they shitted personally it was over the side of the ship.The word you refer to is from Old English.The word scitan means-excrement.With the sc part pronounced sh.

Answer 3

i heard that too.

Answer 4

I doubt it.  Sheisse is the German equivalent, and as most know, English is a Germanic language.  It seems likely that, like the F word, this word was derived from the Germanic roots of English.  

See the snopes site, below:

http://www.snopes.com/language/acronyms/...

Answer 5

that is the origin of the word. believe it or else!

Answer 6

lol it sounds believable

Answer 7

I read that recently too. Don't know if it's true but it sounds plausible.