What The Hail???

[Matthew Gordon]

Actually, I was suggesting that, unlike grapes, dimes don't vary in size.

If you're comparing things by size, it might be clearer to use something
invariant in size for comparison even if the thing you're really talking
about (e.g. hail) varies.


On 9/12/08 12:37 PM, "Doug Harris" <cats22 at FRONTIERNET.NET> wrote:

> So you're suggesting that, unlike snow flakes, hail stones may sometimes be
> identically sized?
> dh
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> Poster:       Matthew Gordon <gordonmj at MISSOURI.EDU>
> Subject:      Re: What The Hail???
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> Well, also, there's less variation in the size of dimes than of grapes,
> tomatoes, etc.
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> On 8/12/08 9:04 AM, "Marc Velasco" <marcjvelasco at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>> I suspect, although working meteorologists might be sought for
> confirmation,
>> that the use of coin-size denominations of hail is an attempt at using
>> something 'universal' and very basic in an attempt to convey safety
>> warnings.  So perhaps dimes are more common than cherry tomatoes as
> lexical
>> markers.
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