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   From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On 28/12/2025 7:41 am, Sam Plusnet wrote:   
   > On 27/12/2025 18:50, athel.cb@gmail.com wrote:   
   >> lar3ryca  posted:   
      
      
      
   >>> And they meet at -40, which happens occasionally around here.   
   >>   
   >> Most of France is starting each day at -2°C or so at present (which you   
   >> probably wouldn't call cold in Regina), but not here: in Marseilles we   
   >> do our shivering at 8°C or so.   
   >>   
   >> One consequence of the cold is that I learned a new word today: greloter   
   >> means shiver.   
   >   
   > Does it also have the other meaning of "shiver" - to break into small   
   > fragments as in "shiver me timbers"?   
      
   Might that be because the Water would get into the wood and, on a cold   
   day, the water might freeze and, as ice takes up greater volumn than   
   water, the 'timber' would crack .... disabling the ship??   
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