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> That's a shocker, I must say! "Goatscaping" would be a much better-sounding word, although not strictly in accordance
with the rules of noun-verbing. Let's adopt it, eh?
Scapegoat comes from Escape goat - the goat that was allow to escape into the wilderness with the sins of all attached to it. 'Goatscaping' certainly confuses this. We would have to classify it with all the other -scape words, too.
Whereas we used to landscape our gardens now we would also goatscape our mistakes or failures - oh, dear!
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