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by ftxbro 1141 days ago
I mean "scapegoat" is a shortening of "escape goat" so probably at some point in history there were grammar pedants complaining about kids these days saying scapegoat instead of escape goat.

> The English scapegoat is a compound of the archaic verb scape, which means "escape," and goat

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TIL