Re: "Git"

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From: Ed Hughes
Date: Wed, 03 May 1995 00:00

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In article <kamin_johnson-0305951159560001@banjo.cellbio.duke.edu>, kamin_johnson@cellbio.duke.edu (kam) writes:
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>> Get a clue, you git.
>
>Er, you mean grit?

He means "git."  Or he could.  "Git" is a term of British origin (I think)
meaning "twit" or "fool."  I don't know where Ed Green picked it up, but
I heard it during my hours spent watching "Monty Python's Flying Circus."

--Ed
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Subject: Re: "Git"
Date: 1995/05/03
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