#Linguistics question! I have an older relative - who would have grown up in Nova Scotia in the late 1940s and through the 1950s. I don't know if it's a generational thing, or a #regionalism, or what, but he uses a term I've never heard anyone else use. Might be only one tiny area; little towns were pretty isolated back then.

#Screws - i.e. hardware you drive into #wood etc - he calls "#screwnails".

Anyone else ever hear them referred to this way?