Re: OT: Rant about degres Celsius (was: introduction)

From: "Tristan Alexander McLeay" <anstouh@...>
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, John Cowan wrote:
>
> > Lars Henrik Mathiesen scripsit:
> >
> > > Snag:
> >
> > Why "snag"?  Is that short for "snaga"?
>
> What's `snaga' mean? And where did this come from? The only thing I know
> `snag' to mean is `sausage', which I'm assuming in't what it was meant to
> mean.
"Snag" as I know it means what happens when fabric is dragged past a hook or a
splinter or rough material or whatnot, and gets stuck on it.  I.e., like
"catch".  ("I got up from the old chair, but my pants got snagged on a spring
and I ripped them")

    *Muke!

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