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This tag is for questions related to the English language as used in the United States of America.
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How does "spanner" come to mean "a wrench"?
I always thought that a spanner for tightening nuts was so called because the jaws of the spanner spanned the flat faces of the nut. c.f 'open-ended spanner'. Ring spanner. Also spanner sizes are 'AF' …
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