Origin of the word shill (shillaber) - English Language Usage . . . A Google Books search finds multiple instances of shill in the sense of "accomplice" from Robert Brown, "The Watch," a short story set in an auction in New York City, in The Metropolitan Magazine (April 1911):
I will or I shall - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Possible Duplicate: When should I use ldquo;shall rdquo; versus ldquo;will rdquo;? I have learnt in school we should use shall with I, you and we But I often see people saying I will, you wi
Where did the phrase batsh*t crazy come from? The word crazy is a later addition Scanning Google Books I find a handful of references starting from the mid-60s where batshit is clearly just a variation on bullshit (nonsense, rubbish) - which meaning still turns up even in 2001, but it's relatively uncommon now