Free Lotto Cratch

Posted on August 16, 2007
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Lotto Cratch and Win

Now, I am a huge fan of my local restaurants but there is certainly much humour to be had at the wonderful spelling encased in their take away menu’s.

Here’s a fantastic example which has managed to survive at least their last 3 years of reprints, with nobody being game to point out that a Cratch is a triangular front board on a narrow boat, and not related to any Lotto scheme I am aware of.

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2 Responses to “Free Lotto Cratch”

  1. Andrew Denny on August 18th, 2007 4:05 am

    I’m not sure what ‘cratch’ was supposed to mean, in the case of the lotto ticket.

    But your own definition isn’t quite right. The triangular front board is a cratch board. The cratch is the whole storage area at the front, including cover.

    In the old boating days, the cratch was where the food was stored for the horses. It’s a corruption of ‘creche’. Although ‘cratch’ long predates canal narrowboats.

  2. admin on August 28th, 2007 9:28 am

    Aha! I stand corrected - thanks for the explanation Andrew, most appreciated.

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