Activity

No. Don’t worry about. Would be a complete waste of time

Let’s make it worth your while. After all this is Center for Inquiry.

What’s the origin of the phrase ‘Son of a bitch’?

This expression is, of course, widely associated with the USA and, despite the worldwide spread of American popular culture, it isn’t much used elsewhere.

Nevertheless, it isn’t American in origin and owes its coinage to no less a coiner than William Shakespeare. He used something pretty close to it in King Lear, 1605: “One that art nothing but the composition of a Knave, Begger, Coward, Pandar, and the Sonne and Heire of a Mungrill Bitch.”

It is likely that the expression was in use in England at the time and we don’t have to wait long for the current wording of the expression to turn up in print. For example, in Beaumont and Fletcher’s Coxcombe, circa 1625: “They had no mothers, they are the sons of bitches”.

What’s the origin of the phrase ‘Son of a bitch’?
This expression is, of course, widely associated with the USA and, despite the worldwide spread of American popular culture, it isn’t much used elsewhere.

Nevertheless, it isn’t American in origin and owes its coinage to no less a coiner than William Shakespeare. He used something pretty close to it in King Lear, 1605: One that art nothing but the composition of a Knave, Begger, Coward, Pandar, and the Sonne and Heire of a Mungrill Bitch.

It is likely that the expression was in use in England at the time and we don’t have to wait long for the current wording of the expression to turn up in print. For example, in Beaumont and Fletcher’s Coxcombe, circa 1625: They had no mothers, they are the sons of bitches.

It’s no worse than being called; “Son of an Orangutan”.  Trump sued Bill Maher over that and lost also.