[Ads-l] Speaking of the weather...

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri Jan 25 19:20:29 UTC 2019


> On Jan 25, 2019, at 2:11 PM, James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at NETSCAPE.COM> wrote:
> 
> From the on-screen news announcement of the recent East Coast storm:  "rain and gutsy winds"
> 

Retronym watch:

“thermometer temperatures”
(as opposed to those figuring in wind chill)

LH
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