Might Scots “Say Scoot” Meaning Scut But “Spell Scoot Scut”?
So when viewed from the housestaff context, there’s also a hierarchy or authoritarian component.
This combines the “hop to it, “go get it done now because I said so” concept not only with the hopping rabbit (rabbit’s tai, or “scut”), but also with the attitude needed to inherit the role, and “hop to it” to get things done.
In this sense “scut” becomes “scoot” or “hop to it and get it done”.
Some medical students earn their internships by squeezing in efficient “scoots” saving their interns trouble, while always also demonstrating an excellent, superior, or outstanding fund of knowledge.
Some interns earn their residencies, by effortlessly, tirelessly, and efficiently “scooting” from task to task while practically living in the hospital, every day for a year. and saving the residents, fellows, saving their residents and attendings trouble,while providing their patients with the highest quality of care.
What’s interesting is that at the end of the intern year (to the day) some interns declare their independence from scut, moving on to become relativelyy “scut-free” on their first day of residency. Other interns, (while excellent at “Scoot”),do not make especially good residents. That’s because residents have to know “what to do”, while interns have to be able to get the “Scoot” done. Certainly, many interns who are excellent at “Scoot”
also become excellent residents.
Conclusion: I’d bet our “scut” derives from both “scoot or hop to it”, and from the short tailed hopping rabbit (“scut”).
Perhaps the medical housestaff in Scotland, (maybe at Edinburgh), within their hierarchy, assigned the “Scut”(pronounced”scoot”) tasks for their interns and medical students to hop and get done.
That’d mean what we call “scut” (pronunced like “but”) might sound like “scoot” when spoken by the Scots.
While in America, the Scottish “spelling”of the term “Scut” has been retained, the Scottish pronounciation of this term “scoot”, has been lost.
Both spellings seem to connote the “hop-to-it-like-a-rabbit” idea.
Ron
Rob:
October 6th, 2021 at 6:14 pm
Some Common Unfinished Task
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Ron:
March 7th, 2017 at 12:38 pm
Might Scots “Say Scoot” Meaning Scut But “Spell Scoot Scut”?
So when viewed from the housestaff context, there’s also a hierarchy or authoritarian component.
This combines the “hop to it, “go get it done now because I said so” concept not only with the hopping rabbit (rabbit’s tai, or “scut”), but also with the attitude needed to inherit the role, and “hop to it” to get things done.
In this sense “scut” becomes “scoot” or “hop to it and get it done”.
Some medical students earn their internships by squeezing in efficient “scoots” saving their interns trouble, while always also demonstrating an excellent, superior, or outstanding fund of knowledge.
Some interns earn their residencies, by effortlessly, tirelessly, and efficiently “scooting” from task to task while practically living in the hospital, every day for a year. and saving the residents, fellows, saving their residents and attendings trouble,while providing their patients with the highest quality of care.
What’s interesting is that at the end of the intern year (to the day) some interns declare their independence from scut, moving on to become relativelyy “scut-free” on their first day of residency. Other interns, (while excellent at “Scoot”),do not make especially good residents. That’s because residents have to know “what to do”, while interns have to be able to get the “Scoot” done. Certainly, many interns who are excellent at “Scoot”
also become excellent residents.
Conclusion: I’d bet our “scut” derives from both “scoot or hop to it”, and from the short tailed hopping rabbit (“scut”).
Perhaps the medical housestaff in Scotland, (maybe at Edinburgh), within their hierarchy, assigned the “Scut”(pronounced”scoot”) tasks for their interns and medical students to hop and get done.
That’d mean what we call “scut” (pronunced like “but”) might sound like “scoot” when spoken by the Scots.
While in America, the Scottish “spelling”of the term “Scut” has been retained, the Scottish pronounciation of this term “scoot”, has been lost.
Both spellings seem to connote the “hop-to-it-like-a-rabbit” idea.
Ron
Rob:
October 6th, 2021 at 6:14 pm
Some Common Unfinished Task