Unless this is a completely new slang term coined by young teenagers --
entirely a possibility -- this is news to me.  I've *never* heard 'spazz'
used in any other way than derrogatory.

I've left a post over at the BBC site telling them so. ;)

Kat

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 01:22:29 +0100, Deri James
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>See:-
>
><http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/weblog/200510/8150.shtml>
>
>On the news tonight a bloke (spokesman for the wheelchair manufacturers)
>claimed that "spaz" was American slang for "spontaneous", I never knew
that.
>
>Cheers
>
>Deri