Antedating of "Windy City"

Charles Doyle cdoyle at UGA.EDU
Tue Nov 7 13:34:27 UTC 2006


Furthermore, Bostonians eat all those beans . . . .

--Charlie
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 07:42:29 -0500
>From: "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
>Subject: Re: Antedating of "Windy City"
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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>And I want to know why Boston isn't called The Windy City, since it has a higher average wind speed than Chicago?
>
>Joel

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