<VV> dimensions

[ScottyGrover at aol.com]

According to Google, skosh is an Americanised version of the Japanese work  
"sukoshi", meaning a little bit of something.  "Smidge" is short for the  
British English term "smidgeon", meaning a small portion.
 
Scotty from Hollyweird
 
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In a message dated 8/14/2011 4:42:23 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
thesuperscribe at yahoo.com writes:

"Skosh"  (spelled with an sh) was a slang term used by GIs who had been 
stationed in  Korea and Japan. My brother came back from Army service in Japan 
in the  mid '50s and threw it around.  Levis once used it in a commercial 
for a  line of jeans aimed at older guys that were cut a little more fully 
around the  waste and crotch -- "a skosh more room," the copy went. Anyway, its 
 origins are Asian and maybe were based on what -- rice grains?  

Smidge appears English to me, so I did some research and found  that the 
word originated with a 17th Century gal named Midge who was a  sloppy market 
operator; she spilled small quantities of sugar, flour and other  stuff all 
the time and folks began calling her "S'Midge." Ha ha, actually, I  just made 
that up. 

Except it does look English, don't you think?  In which case, it might have 
ties to the Whitworth system or one of the  other obscure English 
measurement systems that are now out of practice.  

--Tom in Ohio


From: James P. Rice  <ricebugg at mtco.com>
To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
Sent: Sunday,  August 14, 2011 7:15 PM
Subject: <VV> dimensions

All:   No.  They are exactly the same length, only one is English and  the
other Metric.

But I can never remember which is  which.

Historically Yours,
James Rice

Message: 3
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011  13:38:47 -0400
From: "Harry Yarnell"  <hyarnell1 at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: <VV> MC  adjustment
To: "'Harry Smith'"  <harrysmith1957 at gmail.com>,    "'Bryan  Blackwell'"
<bryan at skiblack.com>
Cc: 'Virtual  Vairs' <Virtualvairs at corvair.org>,    'Bob  Gilbert'
<dancingbob at bresnan.net>

Is there  a measureable difference between a skoch and a  smidge?



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