The weather
ABSTRACT Etymology and the winds of change. There's a lot of weather about these days, isn't there? Until relatively recently the weather was just what we saw when we drew back the curtains and looked out of the bedroom window in the morning, but now things have changed dramatically. These...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0266078408000229 2024-03-03T08:41:58+00:00 The weather Tulloch, Alexander 2008 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266078408000229 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0266078408000229 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms English Today volume 24, issue 2, page 62-64 ISSN 0266-0784 1474-0567 Linguistics and Language Language and Linguistics journal-article 2008 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266078408000229 2024-02-08T08:37:19Z ABSTRACT Etymology and the winds of change. There's a lot of weather about these days, isn't there? Until relatively recently the weather was just what we saw when we drew back the curtains and looked out of the bedroom window in the morning, but now things have changed dramatically. These days every time we turn on the TV or open a newspaper it is quite ‘usual’ for some part of the world to be experiencing ‘unusual’ weather. The Arctic is not yet a tropical paradise but it is starting to move in that direction and England, parts of which a mere year or so ago were drying up like so many dead leaves, has in recent months seen some of the worst floods in its history. And who among us had heard of the word tsunami (Japanese for ‘harbour wave’) before the terrible events of December 2004 in Thailand and Indonesia? Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Cambridge University Press Arctic English Today 24 2 62 64 |
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ABSTRACT Etymology and the winds of change. There's a lot of weather about these days, isn't there? Until relatively recently the weather was just what we saw when we drew back the curtains and looked out of the bedroom window in the morning, but now things have changed dramatically. These days every time we turn on the TV or open a newspaper it is quite ‘usual’ for some part of the world to be experiencing ‘unusual’ weather. The Arctic is not yet a tropical paradise but it is starting to move in that direction and England, parts of which a mere year or so ago were drying up like so many dead leaves, has in recent months seen some of the worst floods in its history. And who among us had heard of the word tsunami (Japanese for ‘harbour wave’) before the terrible events of December 2004 in Thailand and Indonesia? |
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