Re: Scurry vs Scuttle [Was: "Gender-free masculine pronoun"? etc]

From: Steve Hayes (hayesmstw_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 02:34:49 +0200

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 21:12:41 -0000, "Matti Lamprhey"
<matti@official-totally-reversed.com> wrote:

>"Ross Howard" <gguiri@yahoo.com> wrote...
>>
>> The only [rates] I've ever seen, four or five during my ten years in
>> London, were all scurrying* along the third rail in tube stations,
>> probably saying "Don't try this at home".
>>
>> * ObAUE: I doubted between "scurry" and "scuttle" there. Opinions?
>
>For me, this comes down to gait. Scuttling implies a gait where the
>legs on each side are moving together, whilst scurrying labels one
>where they're opposed. So I think rats scurry.

Besides which, I've never heard of scurry***. 

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