Re[2]: [tied] Re: Brugmann's Law

At 9:02:24 AM on Saturday, January 19, 2008, Mate Kapović
wrote:

> On Sub, siječanj 19, 2008 6:57 am, Rick McCallister wrote:

>> In American English it's very much alive in the spoken
>> language. I've heard the word as an insult all my
>> life. It's up there with bitch, skank, skag and slut
>> and dialect ho' and beotch.

> By the way, what's up with this beotch? What is its
> origin?

So far as I know, <beotch> is just a quasi-phonetic spelling
of a variant pronunciation of <bitch>.

Brian