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By: Peter De Wachter

Peter De Wachter — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:28:44 +0000

It does mean “being very easily scared”. I guess folklore doesn’t have to make sense

By: MJ Ray

MJ Ray — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:37:44 +0000

Interesting comment on the Web Foundation's trustworthiness folly by Graham Jones. I'm pretty sceptical of most certification schemes (like GPs or Plain English), but I also see the point of labelling schemes (like food ingredients or Keyfacts financial documents) - I wonder which the Web Foundation is thinking of.

By: MJ Ray

MJ Ray — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:50:00 +0000

Here’s a sample link for traditional weasel associations: http://ww2.netnitco.net/users/legend01/weasel.htm – but I expect there are many more.

As scared as a weasel? What does that mean? Weasels are notorious for attacking larger animals – not scared of much!

As you can tell from the single L in weaseling, that’s US English more than native English.

By: Peter De Wachter

Peter De Wachter — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:27:54 +0000

“weasels symbolise resurrection and bravery”

That’s the first time I’ve heard possitive associations for weasels. English has weasiling out of things. In Dutch there’s the expression “zo bang als een wezel” (as scared as a weasel).