OFF: Brit Slang!

[Ted Jackson]

On 6 Aug 2002, at 23:44, Jill Strobridge wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Nick Medford <nick at HERMIT0.DEMON.CO.UK>
>
> > You dig?
> >
> > (where does "dig" come from?)
>
> my English dictionary suggests it's US slang from a range of meanings
> where 'dig' has come to represent something that has been revealed or
> understood by hard work so 'dig' can mean "to study hard".  As a
> variant to this the meaning of  'diggings' has shifted from
> "entrenchments" to "lodgings" and is now 'digs'.
>
> So things are right as rain now  8-)
> jill

Right as snow on Christmas...

theo