<HTML><HEAD> <META charset=US-ASCII http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> <DIV> <DIV>Greetings, </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>       My 2 cents: What word do you use describe a mechanical action that encompasses, </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>grazing by, but yet also striking, and simutaneously</DIV> <DIV>not exactly hitting directly perpendicular or direct?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>  I think the somehwat appropriate word that fits <EM>would</EM> be scuff. But scuffing implies hard surface to hard surface contact...or at least thats how I connotate it, as shoes on a floor or some rubber bumper that scuffed a car door. </DIV> <DIV>   PTG'ers could develop a word. It would probably have to start out as a sniglet. Eventually the word may make it into the International Language Society's list of words to add to the world's dictionaries as proper terminology. Yet how many discussions may be merely a few it effects.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Julia</DIV> <DIV>Reading, PA </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 11/25/2006 8:05:38 PM Eastern Standard Time, </DIV> <DIV>pianotuna@accesscomm.ca writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>Hi JD,<BR><BR>Perhaps "scrub"?<BR><BR>At 11:58 PM 11/25/2006 +0000, you wrote:<BR>>At 6:30 pm -0500 25/11/06, Sid Blum wrote:<BR>><BR>>Yes.  I can find no definition of 'scruff' that remotely indicates <BR>>the phenomenon under discussion.  Perhaps they mean 'scuff'</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>