[Ads-l] vog

[Barretts Mail]

The earliest instance on the ADS list is 2000 by Barry Popik (http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2000-February/004611.html <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2000-February/004611.html>)

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6 May 1995, SCIENCE, pp. 285-6--Hawaiians have coined the name vog, for
volcanic smog, to describe the problem.
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In 2008, Mark Mandel (http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2008-December.txt <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2008-December.txt>) found an earlier citation:

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  University of Hawaii at Hilo. Vog and Laze Seminar, 29 July 1991.
  Hilo, Hawaii: [The Center; 1991].
  TD883.5.H3 V64 1991.
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Benjamin Barrett
Formerly of Seattle, WA

> On 12 May 2018, at 04:41, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> CNN:
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> "Vog, or 'volcanic fog,' as it's often called."
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> JL
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> -- 
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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