Re[6]: Expletives (was Re: [tied] All of creation in Six and Seven)

At 2:30:30 PM on Saturday, November 29, 2003, Glen Gordon
wrote:

> Brian:
>>I've never heard or seen the usage. I *have* both heard
>>and seen it used as a past tense.

> I know that it can be used for past tense but I've also
> heard it used in the present tense as a noun,

Was that intended to be 'in the present tense' *and* 'as a
noun'?

> presumably because of contamination with "scat".

Can't think of any better idea, though in my experience that
sense of <scat> is fairly rare.

Brian