What The Hail???

[Doug Harris]

Is it simply a matter of sensitivity that we don't hear about
'ugli-fruit-size' tumors?
dh

--On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:

> ---
>
> Within a given dialect group, I wonder, are tumors colloquially "sized" in
> the same figurative terminology as hailstones?  In Georgia, tumors can be
> pea-sized, marble-sized, golfball-sized, baseball-sized, softball-sized,
> grapefruit-sized (a subtle difference between those last two!), etc.  I
> doubt if hailstones measuring toward the larger end of that scale ever
> need to be discussed here (though I'm sure they do in Texas).
>
> --Charlie
>

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