From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 23:27:45 GMT, Dorothy J Heydt   
    wrote   
   in in   
   rec.arts.sf.composition:   
      
   > In article ,   
   > William Vetter   wrote:   
      
   >> 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?   
      
   > In my experience (73 years in the US, but mostly in the   
   > West) it means crazy.   
      
   In mine it’s not that strong: it’s ‘erratic, unpredictable,   
   likely to act without due regard for possible consequences   
   to self and others’.   
      
   Brian   
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   holes to root for sandtatties.  The waves whispered   
   rhythmically over the packed sand: haggisss, haggisss,   
   haggisss.   
      
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