[Ads-l] I want to coin "blizzicane"

Amy West medievalist at W-STS.COM
Wed Jan 28 15:58:30 UTC 2015


On 1/28/15 12:00 AM, ADS-L automatic digest system wrote:
> Date:    Tue, 27 Jan 2015 12:06:50 -0500
> From:    "Joel S. Berson"<Berson at ATT.NET>
> Subject: I want to coin "blizzicane"
>
> "Blizzicane" -- "A storm that qualifies both as a blizzard and as a hurricane."
A friend up in Swampscott used this term in a FB posting yesterday, so 
you'll have to duke it out with her for claim rights. And she's a 
lawyer, so I'm betting on her. . .

---Amy West

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