Lately I have heard people substituting the two-syllable word “Beeyoch” for the monosyllabic word “bitch”. How/where/when/why did this phenomenon start?
The first I heard it was in the mid to late 90s on Howard Stern’s radio show. I always thought they used bee-yoch cause they weren’t allowed to say bitch on the radio.
Just a guess.
I think it goes back to Snoop Dogg, who used the pronunciation quite a bit on Dr. Dre’s The Chronic album in 1992.
It is older than that. It is from rapper Too Short back in the early 1980’s (1981).
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/t/too+short/tell+the+feds_20139362.html
It was a common enough pronunciation by the early nineties for it to have morphed into chaw-eeb (bee-otch pronounced backwards.)
I thought it was Cartman on South Park.
Q: What does Snoop Dog use in his laundry?
A: Blea-yotch!
Hrm… I’ve never heard of that mutation! Ignorance fought, and all that.
Q: what did 50 cent say when he found his grandmother making a sweater?
A: G, U knit!
:: D+R ::
perhaps it made earlier appearances, but I think it gained widespread use after its appearance in Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog’s “Gin 'N Juice.” Shock jocks of all stripes picked up on it as a way to “curse” without “cursing.”
do you have a cite for this? Too $hort would have been 15 in 1981 and his recording career didn’t begin until '83. Besides, those lyrics sounds awfully late 80’s early 90’s gangsta rap.