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From: Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net>
Newsgroups: sci.lang,alt.usage.english
Subject: Re: To waffle, 'to waver, to vacillate, to equivocate, to dither'
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 09:55:50 +0200
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On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 07:43:54 +0100, Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net>
wrote:

>
>Speaking (in sci.lang) of Andy Grove, he uses waffle in the above sense in his
>good, well-edited ‘High Output Management.’ In my youth I would only have used
>or understood the word in the meaning ‘to ramble on, to say nothing of much
>consequence,’ and OED2 documents that the fail-to-make-a-decision sense is
>colloquial or non-standard.

What is the "above" sense? 

I see no sense "above". 

>
>I presume I have misunderstood various Americans over the years in not picking
>up on the ‘dither’ meaning. How universal is that meaning over there?

For what values of "that"?


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