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Thomas Jones wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE><font face="arial,helvetica"><font size=-1>I am starting
a research project on the perception of weather and the power</font></font>
<br><font face="arial,helvetica"><font size=-1>of names of weather events
on perception. I have come across an interesting</font></font>
<br><font face="arial,helvetica"><font size=-1>set of stories about the
word "blizzard" and I am interested in any input.</font></font>
<p><font face="arial,helvetica"><font size=-1>According to one story, blizzard
is of American origin, sometime in the 19th</font></font>
<br><font face="arial,helvetica"><font size=-1>century. Another story
holds that blizzard comes from "blizzered" from</font></font>
<br><font face="arial,helvetica"><font size=-1>England and yet another
attributes it to a derivation of "blitz." These</font></font>
<br><font face="arial,helvetica"><font size=-1>stories all come from the
east coast storm of 1888 and may all be incorrect.</font></font></blockquote>
Allen Walker Read published an article or a couple of notes on 'blizzard'
-- I think in American Speech in the 1930s. I looked for the references
just now but couldn't locate them. Well, many of us might ask, What
did AWR not work on? Not bitch slap, I'll bet. But he'd be
working on it right now if he had a little more strength at age 94 (or
whatever the number is).
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