Comments on: Snagging lists - making good

By: Tony Bright

Tony Bright — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 11:21:20 +0000

I thought this was already part of the standard development process – UAT (User Acceptance Testing).

By: philip

philip — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:51:22 +0000

just looked up this page to check the meaning of punch list. I have finished a decorating job for London based Australian Project manager and he sent it. Never heard it before in the UK

By: darin buck

darin buck — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:05:07 +0000

I don’t know if this is a common euphemism outside of the US southeast, but around here it’s called a punch list.

By: sam newman

sam newman — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 23:30:13 +0000

Damn americans :-) – who was it that said the British and Americans were “two nations seperated by a common language”? I seem to remember that “snag” actually means sausage in Australian slang – that whole tower of babel thing has a lot to answer for…

By: Mike Atlas

Mike Atlas — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 21:43:40 +0000

In US english the concept of a “snag” (n) is a tangle-up or interruption in a process. So a ‘snagging list’ would probably make more sense to an American if it were called a “snags list”.