snowglobes? snowdomes?

[Beverly Flanigan]

At 11:56 AM 3/23/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>I asked my 20-year-old daughter, to obtain a younger-generation
>informant judgment.  She replies as below.
>
>Larry
>==============
>
>>What do you call those glass- or plastic-covered novelty items they
>>sell in souvenir shops that have tourist scenes inside with fake snow
>>that settles slowly back down on the scene when you turn them
>>upside-down and then put them back right side up again?
>
>uh oh, i'm not sure if i thought of "snow globes" or "snow domes"
>first. but i would call them snow globes if i was actually talking,
>actually snow domes sounds really wierd in comparison.

That's a great elicitation question, Larry!  (Or should I say
"illicitation," as many of my students do?)