OFF: Brit Slang!

[Jill Strobridge]

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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

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