From: john@jfeldredge.com   
      
   On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 21:17:52 -0400, Brian M. Scott wrote:   
      
   > 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   
      
   Well, some people use the term "crazy" to mean what you described.  It   
   certainly fits the personality of the squirrels I have encountered.   
      
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