It's African-American slang, associated with rap and
hip-hop. It's also associated with gangs and prison.
Other examples are insertion of /z/ and other
syllables into words house > /h2zaws/, shit >
shiznatz; business into biznatz; one of favorites
--Bush into Bushnatz.
A related phenomenon is Southern /st/ & /sh/ > /sk/:
"skreet", "skrimp". This is extremely common in the US
South. I heard it all the time in Mississippi and
South Carolina. My students from the South all do it
when they speak to one another.
--- Mate Kapoviæ <
mkapovic@...> wrote:
> On Sub, sijeèanj 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?
>
> Mate
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