Posted by David Gibb on February 14, 2009 at 00:57:16 user DavidGibb.
In Reply to: posted by David Bamford on February 14, 2009 at 23:02:36:
But you might be up against Italian.
Chambers Dictionary says: from the Italian 'scappare' to escape, possibly strengthened by Cockney 'scapa' from WW1 rhyming slang.
I think the imperative form of scappare is scappa which sounds right if you put in an intrusive r (or two).