Scrounging - was Floating point routines for the 6809

[Toby Thain]

On 2017-03-29 10:50 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> On 28 March 2017 at 18:58, Mike Stein via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>> Maybe it has a slightly different connotation on this side of the pond; I don't think it would mean "borderline theft" for most people.
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> I did Google it first! :-)
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> Note definition 1 here:
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> https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scrounge
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> "Steal, swipe"
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But you must have overlooked the intransitive definition below: "to 
search about and turn up something needed from whatever source is 
available".

I'm pretty sure that's the sense Jim was using (and it's certainly not 
restricted to North America; I learned it in British English).

--T