Re: "Scarper"

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Posted by Robert Hill on February 14, 2009 at 23:52:07 user eclrh.

In Reply to: posted by David Bamford on February 14, 2009 at 23:02:36:

Thanks for that, David! I've lived all my life in Britain, and though I know that 'scarper' means 'run away', I never knew its derivation until now. I always assumed it was a variant of 'scamper'. Yet in retrospect it seems something I should have guessed.

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