Thread: It's snailing, hnowing or whatever
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Old 30-03-2013, 03:09 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Jeff Layman[_2_] Jeff Layman[_2_] is offline
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Default It's snailing, hnowing or whatever
On 30/03/2013 12:06, wrote:
The English language lacks a word for a mixture of snow and hail,
usually in the form of lumps that are neither one nor the other.
Any ideas on what to call it?

Anyway, we have just had a shower of it here.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

You should ask an Inuit. They probably have as many words for it as the
forms in which it exists (more snow than hail; more hail than snow,
equal amounts, etc). Then decide on an English translation.

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Jeff
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