Timeline for Which between "crap" and "shit" is more rude?
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| Oct 9, 2015 at 1:54 | comment | added | 40XUserNotFound | As an American English speaker, I consider both "shit" and "crap" to be swear words. | |
| May 12, 2014 at 9:15 | history | migrated | from english.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| May 12, 2014 at 8:44 | comment | added | Frank | @EdwinAshworth Well I think that's a pretty shit thing to do, almost verging on shite. No, seriously, had it been shit or poo then there would be almost total agreement, with two words so close together on the 'sweariness' scale there's never going to be a consensus. However, when measuring on the (newly invented probably) Simpson Scale, Bart has used the word crap but I don't believe he has ever used the word shit. | |
| May 12, 2014 at 8:31 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | @Frank Questions that are/turn out to prompt only overly subjective answers are off-topic. Your 'completely subjective' has prompted my close vote (though when you think about it, labelling a question 'calls for opinions rather than factual answers' is also subjective). | |
| May 12, 2014 at 8:26 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | @Poldie I'm not sure we can import anything from Scotland unless and until they choose independence. And I think we should avoid shite; N Sea gas is OK. | |
| May 12, 2014 at 8:22 | comment | added | Poldie | I'm from England, and shite always sounds like a Scottish version. It's certainly imported from somewhere, and not something I ever heard growing up. | |
| May 12, 2014 at 8:14 | comment | added | Frank | @EdwinAshworth Yes, they are completely subjective, but the OP wanted a ranking so I gave him mine. It's a bit like God damn it and Gosh darn it. I don't find religious terms offensive at all and those two are equally as bland as each other, but I know people who wouldn't be happy to hear me say 'christ on a bike', the same way I prefer shite over shit when I want to be offensive (maybe I'm not offending people as much as I could though if the majority think shit is more offensive than shite). | |
| May 12, 2014 at 8:04 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Surely these rankings are largely subjective. FWIW, I've always ranked 'crap' as 'worse' than 'shit', which appears in the KJV. | |
| May 12, 2014 at 8:04 | comment | added | Frank | @AndrewLeach I did say it's my opinion but I'd rather be called An old shit than An old shite any day of the week; it would lead me to believe that the speaker wasn't as tough as they want to appear and I'd beat the living shite out of them with my cane. | |
| May 12, 2014 at 7:56 | comment | added | Andrew Leach | No, shite is a polited form of shit. | |
| May 12, 2014 at 7:49 | comment | added | Frank | @Poldie Yes, decreasing order of sweariness. In my opinion shite is much stronger that shit when used as an offensive term in British English. | |
| May 12, 2014 at 7:43 | comment | added | Poldie | In decreasing order of sweariness, you mean? If so, I agree other than to swap the first two. | |
| May 12, 2014 at 7:25 | history | answered | Frank | CC BY-SA 3.0 |