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Old 30-03-2013, 09:17 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default It's snailing, hnowing or whatever


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In article o.uk,
Dave Liquorice 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?


Soft hail, snow pellets?


Well, yes, but I want a word. I have just had an idea: snobbling.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.


Try an aangram - washnoil or other arrangement......good fun eh?

Bill