XPost: rec.arts.drwho, alt.usage.english   
   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   In article <10ithj0$smkc$3@dont-email.me>,   
   Daniel70   wrote:   
   >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 ......??   
      
   Yet another good question.   
      
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   >Daniel70   
      
      
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