Etymologically rooted in the German "Schraschattleschraum", meaning "release of creeping
anxiety through subtle trappings of mirth, and
maybe some sauerkraut" linguists have struggled to
trace the origins of this
popular urban term.
In his seminal text 'Syntactic Structures', linguist Noam Chomsky asserts that "scray" entered the english language around 1953. This was the dawn of the era in which mass communications technology began to difuse previously disparate elements into increasingly oblique and monastic forms. Consequently, ensuing developments of verbally expressed culture exhibited markedly parochial leanings. Chomsky
feels such etymological dynamism aided the spreading of terms such as "scray" and "scallywop" across previously unscalable spatial and temporal borders.
However, famed pimp Iceberg
Slim argues that "scray" in its current context was in fact introduced by "his own bad self," and that Chomsky "and his honky MIT people" are merely "suckas".
