<div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 11:38 AM, Jean-Joseph Cote <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jjcotedsl@verizon.net" target="_blank">jjcotedsl@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="auto">Since Pierre didn't fully explain...<br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">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. <br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">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. <br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">Jean-Joseph<br><br></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div>