talk about dialect restriction!

[Chris Waigl]

On 8 Feb 2009, at 22:55, Laurence Horn wrote:
>
> I was listening to an audiobook of Annie Proulx's _Shipping News_
> from a few years back and noticed that one of the Newfoundlanders
> referred to waking up and noticing that the day "looked snowly".  I
> thought this was an interesting turn (sure enough, the blizzard came
> later in the day, even though it was May), but couldn't find any
> listing for "snowly" in the OED.  Googling didn't help, until I tried
> googling "looking snowly" and found exactly one google hit, for an
> entry in a 1990 Dictionary of Newfoundland English.
>
> LH
>
> P.S. Does anyone remember what it's called when you get a single g-
> hit?


A googlewhack (capitalize to taste).

Chris Waigl
who heard it's looking snowly again at the outskirts of London though
not in the center-west.

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