"Scritch"

[Wilson Gray]

FWIW, I know it only as an eye-phonetic, onomatopoetic representation of a
scratching sound.

-Wilson

On 2/5/06, Damien Hall <halldj at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> In his original e-mail Jim asked how many people on the list were already
> familiar with *scritch*.  I've never heard it (which might interest him
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> he was asking about non-USAns as well).
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> Damien Hall
> Brit at the University of Pennsylvania
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