[Fictionary] yeggogology results: Nick wins

[Ranjit Bhatnagar]

I only know the word "yegg" because I was reading an essay by some author
(Gene Wolfe? Robinson Davies?) explaining how, sure, you could always build
a dank pit in the cellar of your castle and call it an oubliette, but until
you actually throw a few petty criminals in there, it's really just a pit.
In other words, you can't make an oubliette without breaking a few yeggs.



On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 11:38 AM, Jean-Joseph Cote <jjcotedsl at verizon.net>
wrote:

> Since Pierre didn't fully explain...
>
> Linda's and my definitions were based on the fact that "yegg" is a slang
> term for a safecracker, the kind of thing that shows up in crossword
> puzzles. I had, before sending in my definition, said that maybe I knew it
> if it was related to that, and Pierre told me that it wasn't.
>
> And the real definition comes from the fact that some calculators used to
> display "Error" if you did something like divide by zero, which looks like
> the meaningless word "yeggog" to people who use the Cyrillic alphabet.
>
> Jean-Joseph
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://www.swarpa.net/pipermail/fictionary/attachments/20180826/007d14d7/attachment.html