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Posted by Evans A Criswell (Member # 381) on 01-08-2003, 02:30 PM:
 
OK. Here's a question I've been meaning to ask y'all. I've been hearing people pronounce "bitch" as "bee-otch" in many places during the last year or two. If this is indeed a recent addition to our slang, where did it originate? I don't think I heard it until during the past couple of years.

I noticed an occurrence of it in "Just Married".
 

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Posted by Mark Lensenmayer (Member # 134) on 01-08-2003, 02:40 PM:
 
I first heard it in the "Kyle's Mom" song from the SOUTH PARK movie.
 

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Posted by Sam Hunter (Member # 1119) on 01-08-2003, 03:50 PM:
 
Here is your answer sir:

Biotch (bee-otch) (exclamation, pronoun): Originating outside the elite community, this term was readily adopted due to its theoretically shocking nature. Believed to have been originated by rapper Too Short, and then also used by Snoop doggy dogg. Can be used as an insult or as a term of friendly rivalry. Most common spellings: Biotch, bi0tch, beeatch, bizitch. Usage: "Formica in da hauuus, beeeeaaatch!"

Here is the link
http://odin.prohosting.com/groundli/texts/k-rade~1.html
 

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Posted by Dan Lyons (Member # 1454) on 01-08-2003, 06:09 PM:
 
Anyone else think that it is about time to let the English teachers in public school carry rulers?
A nice swat might be helpful in clearing up the various ways this word is being said.
 

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Posted by Evans A Criswell (Member # 381) on 01-08-2003, 06:36 PM:
 
[in reference to Sam's post]

Wow, I had no idea the term came from the "elite" crowd. I was unfortunate enough to be around a group of those back in 1993 and 1994. They did all of the spellings (like d00d and du0d, etc., for dude, and 3l33t and eleet, el33t, etc. for elite). If I started using any of these in messages to them, they'd change the way they spelled the words to keep me an outsider. This group was always into mischief and one had his computer equipment confiscated by the FBI at one point. It makes me glad they kept me as an outsider since in retrospect it was not a good group to associate with!

I thought the "bee-otch" term had come from some fairly recent movie or TV show.
 

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Posted by Jon Todd (Member # 1118) on 01-08-2003, 06:37 PM:
 
i first heard the biatch (i believe thats the correct spelling) pronunciation about 7-8 years ago when i was in middle school. im pretty sure sam is right with crediting Too Short as first to bring it to the mainstream.

it was cool at the time, but no longer.
 

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Posted by Thomas Procyk (Member # 1170) on 01-08-2003, 06:59 PM:
 
I think a more serious problem is the overuse of the last three letters of the alphabet in substitution for others. It seems that with the dawn of the new millenium, the last three letters of the alphabet have become "Extreme" in nature.

Fist, X. This letter is just about dead and buried in the slang world. X-Games, XFL, X-treme, X-cuse me, EconomiX... Any way you look at it, X ain't just for Xylophone anymore, although overused and unfunny.

Next, Y. Instead of "why?" some people use simply "y?" in text messaging or IMs. Children of the 80s were called Generation X, so children of the 90's adopted Generation Y. "Y!" has become a trademark for the company Yahoo. Not as bad as X, but it's still there. We may never know Y.

And then there's Z. This letter is often overused in "urban" speak or suburban teens pretending to be urban by inserting it into words that generally contain S's instead. Examples: Bizzitch, Hizzouse, Bizznitch, Chrizza...

What you got beeyotch?
=T to the Mizzem P!=
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 01-09-2003, 12:56 AM:
 
Well, here's my theory.

The first time I heard "bee-otch" spoken was when the very deliciously delectable Famke Janssen shouted it when James Bond beat her at baccarat in the film "Goldeneye." Just leave it to an astonishingly sexy lady to coin a term. Beavis and Butthead pick it up for their episodes. Rappers start repeating it. Even the Butthole Surfers use it in a tune (reference: Romeo and Juliet motion picture soundtrack).

Anyway, that's my theory. Sexy Russian character shouts it out and everyone else copies it.

I'd like Famke Janssen to squeeze me with her thighs.
 

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Posted by Dan Lyons (Member # 1454) on 01-09-2003, 01:42 AM:
 
Thomas wrote:

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Examples: Bizzitch, Hizzouse, Bizznitch, Chrizza...

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Hizzouse?? What on earth? Is that supposed to be HOUSE?

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Yes.

(Just going through some old threads looking for something, and I came accross this one which I never read)
 

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Posted by Paul G. Thompson (Member # 655) on 01-21-2003, 02:14 AM:
 
No, Ken. it is an 'Ohm!

('Ohm is an English 'Ouse....)

Ever read Andy Capp in the cartoon strips?
 

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Posted by Charles Everett (Member # 889) on 01-22-2003, 10:35 AM:
 
Martin Lawrence says "bee-otch" in National Security

See it -- it's GREAT!
 

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Posted by Scott D. Neff (Member # 185) on 01-23-2003, 12:44 PM:
 
I myself always thought it was "byotch" -- but lately I just tell Adam to instead.
 

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