A hangnail is not a broken fingernail as I’d thought, but those painful little breaks that happen in the skin on the side of the fingernail. So what’s the term for snagging a fingernail and having it break half way?
Nathan Alter lives in Albuquerque with his wife and kids. He currently develops in C#/.NET, but is learning all the time and has enjoyed computers since programming in Basic on an Atari 400 as a teenager. He started blogging in 1999.
A hangnail is not a broken fingernail as I’d thought, but those painful little breaks that happen in the skin on the side of the fingernail. So what’s the term for snagging a fingernail and having it break half way?