Peter Hansen peter at engcorp.com
Mon Feb 3 08:44:52 EST 2003

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Bengt Richter wrote:
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> On Sun, 02 Feb 2003 20:03:22 -0500, Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
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> >I don't think I ever twigged to the fact that the order of the
> >arguments affects the order of the output Google provides.
> [OT] Is that kind of relation to facts like finding by dowsing?
> Just wondering where the terminology came from ;-)

I assume it's the last definition for "twig" as seen here: 

http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn1.7.1?stage=1&word=twig

Websters shows this:

Twig \Twig\, v. t. [Gael. tuig, or Ir. tuigim I understand.]
     1. To understand the meaning of; to comprehend; as, do you
        twig me? [Colloq.] --Marryat.


-Peter

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