I think I might be responsible for adding skeg to the soaring lexicon, something I'm not particularly proud of.
For our use, its skeg, not skag*, not skegg. Skegs are located aft teeth are forward. Before committing to advertising and packaging copy, I went to the library and looked up skeg in a bunch of different dictionaries and patents to confirm it was the proper term. *Skag is mentioned in some dictionaries but it is slang for skeg. Skegg skegge, skag, skagge, shag, shagge have multiple definitions including the device we use but are probably a product of translation and pronunciation errors. Tim McCann, Skeg monger ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom H. Nagel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RCSE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 4:42 PM Subject: [RCSE] Skegs Survey > I personally am a skegnostic, and don't much care if people in contests > use skegs or not, because I am not going to be flying against them anyway. > I use one on the Flamingoid to keep the droopy plastic yard flamingo neck > from breaking. > > What I want to know in this survey is: HOW MANY DIFFERENT SPELLINGS ARE > THERE FOR SKEG? > > So far I see skeg and skegg and once in a while skag. One of our > friends from Montreal spells it squegge as I recall. Add your own versions. > A thread is a terrible thing to waste. RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off.
