[Ads-l] When Snow Sticks

[Michael Quinion]

Wilson Gray wrote:

> 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. 

My experience in Britain, from where the original questioner comes, is 
that the usual terms are "settling", less often "laying". But, as he 
pointed out, "pitching", "landing" and others are in dialect use in 
various places. "Sticking" is used but it wouldn't come first to my mind.

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Michael Quinion
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