# "Bitch"="Beeyoch" -- Origin? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 4, 2007, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitch-beeyoch-origin/398769 "2007-04-04T20:59:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitch-beeyoch-origin/398769/1 "2007-04-04T20:59:07Z")
Lately I have heard people substituting the two-syllable word “Beeyoch” for the monosyllabic word “bitch”. How/where/when/why did this phenomenon start? ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitch-beeyoch-origin/398769/2 "2007-04-04T21:08:52Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitch-beeyoch-origin/398769/3 "2007-04-04T21:10:08Z")
I think it goes back to Snoop Dogg, who used the pronunciation quite a bit on Dr. Dre’s _The Chronic_ album in 1992. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitch-beeyoch-origin/398769/4 "2007-04-04T21:13:54Z")
[QUOTE=Hippy Hollow] I think it goes back to Snoop Dogg, who used the pronunciation quite a bit on Dr. Dre’s _The Chronic_ album in 1992. [/QUOTE] 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](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/t/too+short/tell+the+feds_20139362.html) ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitch-beeyoch-origin/398769/5 "2007-04-04T21:21:27Z")
It was a common enough pronunciation by the early nineties for it to have morphed into chaw-eeb (bee-otch pronounced backwards.) ---
**Author:** ![King\_Friday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/43a26b/32.png) [@King\_Friday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/King_Friday)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitch-beeyoch-origin/398769/6 "2007-04-04T22:34:26Z")
I thought it was Cartman on South Park. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitch-beeyoch-origin/398769/7 "2007-04-04T22:43:26Z")
Q: What does Snoop Dog use in his laundry? A: Blea-yotch! ---
**Author:** ![Iggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Iggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggins)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitch-beeyoch-origin/398769/8 "2007-04-04T23:59:18Z")
[QUOTE=Sage Rat] It was a common enough pronunciation by the early nineties for it to have morphed into chaw-eeb (bee-otch pronounced backwards.) [/QUOTE] Hrm… I’ve never heard of that mutation! Ignorance fought, and all that. ---
**Author:** ![enigm4tic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@enigm4tic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enigm4tic)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitch-beeyoch-origin/398769/9 "2007-04-05T00:49:17Z")
[QUOTE=Phase42] Q: What does Snoop Dog use in his laundry? A: Blea-yotch! [/QUOTE] Q: what did 50 cent say when he found his grandmother making a sweater? A: G, U knit! :: D+R :: ---
**Author:** ![whole\_bean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@whole\_bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whole_bean)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitch-beeyoch-origin/398769/10 "2007-04-05T18:09:08Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![whole\_bean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@whole\_bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whole_bean)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitch-beeyoch-origin/398769/11 "2007-04-05T18:21:54Z")
[QUOTE=Shagnasty] 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](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/t/too+short/tell+the+feds_20139362.html) [/QUOTE] 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.