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   From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On 29/12/2025 2:00 am, J. J. Lodder wrote:   
   > Daniel70  wrote:   
   >> 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??   
   >   
   > That is not the correct explanation,   
   >   
   > Jan   
   >   
   .... which is ......??   
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   Daniel70   
      
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