Scrit vs Scrip - What's the difference?
scrit | scrip |
A small medieval bag used to carry food, money, utensils etc.
* 1919, , Duckworth, hardback edition, page 9
* 1964 , Nothing Like the Sun
Small change.
* 1899, ,
A scrap of paper.
A document certifying possession of land, or in lieu of money.
A voucher or token coin used in payrolls under the .
Any substitute for legal tender that is produced by a natural person or private legal person and is often a form of credit.
As nouns the difference between scrit and scrip
is that scrit is (obsolete) writing; document; scroll while scrip is a small medieval bag used to carry food, money, utensils etc or scrip can be a scrap of paper or scrip can be a share certificate or scrip can be (informal|british) a medical prescription.scrit
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(wikipedia scrip)Etymology 1
An aphetism of (etyl) , a variant of escharpe, from (etyl) skreppa.Noun
(en noun)- Depositing his scrip in the outhouse the cowherd glanced around.
- A night promising fair, scented, the moon in her third quarter, nightingales in the wood, WS, in worn cloak against the morning’s chill, empty scrip and purse, taking the road. —
The Brick Moon and Other Stories], (Short Story Index Reprint Series), Project Gutenberg, [1999, Etext #1633
- In reading it in 1899, I am afraid that the readers of a hard, money generation may not know that "scrip " was in the sixties the name for small change.
