Timeline for When we touch an animal it is "pet" or "pat"?
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| Jan 7, 2016 at 16:55 | comment | added | Ron Jensen | @Jim - At the risk of a "Me, too" comment I think its significant to emphasize the direction of motion as the difference between pet and pat. | |
| Dec 30, 2013 at 21:09 | comment | added | anongoodnurse | @Jim - that is my mental image as well. | |
| Dec 30, 2013 at 18:24 | comment | added | Jim | I think of pat as having more motion perpendicular to the "patted" surface, whereas pet has more motion parallel to the "petted" surface. | |
| Dec 30, 2013 at 13:42 | vote | accept | nkm | ||
| Dec 30, 2013 at 11:08 | history | answered | anongoodnurse | CC BY-SA 3.0 |