Actually it is from the German word spannen to stretch, span :^)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barrie Robinson" <barrie at look.ca>
To: "Greg Lemon" <glemon at neb.rr.com>; "I Erbs" <eyera3 at gmail.com>;
<Jwhlyadv at aol.com>
Cc: <pyoas at yahoo.com>; <healeys at autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2011 10:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Chatter
> The Brits call those tools spanners because it is the English word for it
> and Brits speak English.
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> At 01:21 AM 5/29/2011, Greg Lemon wrote:
>>I always assumed because the "jaws" span the distance between the opposite
>>flats on the nut?
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>>
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "I Erbs" <eyera3 at gmail.com>
>>To: <Jwhlyadv at aol.com>
>>Cc: <pyoas at yahoo.com>; <healeys at autox.team.net>
>>Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 11:17 PM
>>Subject: Re: [Healeys] Chatter
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>>>Thanks to all that was fun.
>>>So why do Brits call a wrench a spanner?
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