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|    Jim Hetley to William Vetter    |
|    Re: squirrelly    |
|    26 Aug 15 04:49:18    |
      From: jhetley@hotmail.com              On Tuesday, August 25, 2015 at 6:18:59 PM UTC-4, 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?              I've heard the first usage only, with an added implication of crazy. As in,       nuts.              Jim              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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