"I can tell you that the word "shit" (although vulgar)is a perfectly acceptable word. In Philippians 3:8 the apostle Paul's use of the word "dung" was actually the word "shit" in Hebrew."
That is true-and if you’ve read any British novels or other stories from the 18th century, the word “shat”-the past tense of sh*t is in a lot of them-it is common for both to be used to describe something offensive to the narrator-like: Lady so-and-so looked distressed as though a dog had shat upon the floor. Or We had become weary of being shat upon by his dishonest barrister. It must have become naughty slang sometime later. I’ve said I was shat upon by a customer, etc at work for years-now the guy I work for, and several of our workers say it, too...
I hear s*** used every day in public, too-grocery store, at work, etc by literally everyone, an I say it as well-but I don’t use it in any typed/written thing unless it is to someone I know-you never know what offends a person you are not familiar with...