From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 18:17:20 -0400, William Vetter   
    wrote   
   in in   
   rec.arts.sf.composition:   
      
   > I think that this word has separate, almost conflicting   
   > meanings in US and UK.   
      
   > In UK it means jittery, restless, unpredictable.   
      
   > In US, especially rural US, it means cunning, a   
   > trickster, difficult to pin down.   
      
   > Is this so?   
      
   Not in my experience: I know only the first sense.   
      
   Brian   
   --   
   It was the neap tide, when the baga venture out of their   
   holes to root for sandtatties.  The waves whispered   
   rhythmically over the packed sand: haggisss, haggisss,   
   haggisss.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)