[Ads-l] Yet Further Antedating of "Smog"

[Margaret Winters]

Doesn't "always colored" refer to the true British mist to which the "morning fog" is being compared?

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MARGARET E WINTERS
Former Provost
Professor Emerita - French and Linguistics
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI  48202

mewinters at wayne.edu


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Subject: Re: Yet Further Antedating of "Smog"

Am I the only one scratching my head over "pure white mist... always
colored"?

MAM

On Wed, Nov 20, 2019, 7:13 AM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

> smog (OED 1905)
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> 1880 _Santa Cruz Weekly Sentinel_ 3 July 3/5 (Newspapers.com)  The morning
> fog ... is really not fog at all, but cloud of pure white mist, warmer and
> much less wetting than a "Scotch Mist," not differing entirely from the
> true British fog, facetiously spelled "smog" because always colored and
> strongly impregnated with smoke, a mixture as unwholesome as it is
> unpleasant.
>
> Fred Shapiro
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