Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2004

Doesn't show in searches at Yahoo in English-language pages, which
normally tells me it's not in current use, especially in educated use.

However searches on Google, showed it in texts such as slang phrases
such as:
"Shut up and keep diggen"
thus one can assume it's used in rap and similar music for
"digging/diggin'"

The funny thing is that "diggen" as such seems to have been used in
the Middle Age:-)
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Main Entry: 1dig    Pronunciation Guide
Pronunciation: dig
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): dug \dg\; or archaic digged \digd\; dug or archaic
digged; digging; digs
Etymology: Middle English diggen, perhaps of imitative origin
[unabridged.merriam-webster]
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[Middle English diggen; perhaps akin to Old French digue, dike,
trench; see dhgw- in Indo-European Roots. V., tr., sense 8 and intr.,
sense 3, perhaps influenced by Wolof degg, to hear, find out,
understand or Irish Gaelic tuigim, I understand.]
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=dig
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Marius Hancu