[Ads-l] When Snow Sticks

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon Nov 9 02:53:32 UTC 2015


On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 9:33 PM, Baker, John <JBAKER at stradley.com> wrote:

> I think those who live in the snow belt of the United States will
> immediately recognize this as the snow "sticking,"
>

It's so obvious that I *didn't* recognize it immediately, thinking that,
surely, it must be some kind of trick question. What do English-speakers
outside of The World use to specify that phenomenon - or should that be
"phenomena"? - I wonder.


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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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