NR - Griffin, for want of a standard spelling...

[Marc Carlson]

At 05:52 PM 9/14/00 +0000, Timothy wrote:
>>>>> or what not, there should be some good Norse words for
>>>>> ugly weather, they did live on the north sea.. (also
>>>>> crappy weather)
>>>>So did the Irish.  So did the Scots.
>>>>Not everyone has a Nordic personna.
>>very true, not meaning to be exclusive here..

I didn't think you were.  It's just one of those things I've noticed happening, 
which can be interpreted as trying to get everyone to play the same game -- and
having gotten *my* rear burned on that in the past, I'm a smidgen sensitive to
it.

>what did the Scots, Irish, english, & welsh use to describe hard winds and ugly 
>weather?  or Griffins or what not?

English is really easy -- "Hardwinds","Uglyweather", and so on.

marc/Diarmaid

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