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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: David Lawrence who wrote (1600)	11/22/1998 8:34:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4711

On the word "grub" & the appopriateness of its use to describe the practice of posting for trivial message numbes. Although I realize that you posted that query only in order to "grub" yet another trivial message number for your trophy case, I will take a stab at answering it. First, let me suggest that this practice is peculiar to SI. I have not seen any other site where messages are numbered in similar fashion. So somebody here coined it, clearly, by analogy with something else. Now, to: Standard Dictionary Meaning of Verb "To Grub" 1 : to clear by digging up roots and stumps 2 : to dig up by or as if by the roots intransitive senses 1 a : to dig in the ground especially for something that is difficult to find or extract b : to search about <grubbed in the countryside for food -- Lamp> 2 : TOIL, DRUDGE <folks who grub for money -- James Street I suspect that "post-grubbing" combines both the transitive and intransitive meanings of the word, and that "money-grubbing" is the obvious analogy we are looking for. However, I must confess I am puzzled. I can see grubbing for money. But why grub for posts?? They aren't even collectibles that you can sell (e.g., old bottle-tops). jbe