End of ADS-L Digest - 20 Aug 1997 to 21 Aug 1997
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Subject: ADS-L Digest - 21 Aug 1997 to 22 Aug 1997
There are 5 messages totalling 158 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

 1. wind chill factor (was: Quebec English)
 2. Rat Line; Beat and Square, again (2)
 3. pot likker (fwd)
 4. DARE on Weekend Edition

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Date:  Thu, 21 Aug 1997 23:26:22 -0500
From:  Dan Goodman <dsgood[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]VISI.COM>
Subject: wind chill factor (was: Quebec English)

> Date:  Thu, 21 Aug 1997 10:03:37 -0500
> From:  Mark Mandel <Mark[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]DRAGONSYS.COM>
> Subject: Re: Quebec English
>
> "Wind-chill factor", distinctively Canadian? Eh, no!
>
> Ingrid Peritz's article on Quebec English and Canadian English, quoted by
> Dan Goodman, includes the paragraph (apparently based on the _Guide
> to Canadian English Usage_)
>
>  While anglo Quebecers have expressions to call their own, so do all
>  English Canadians. From hosers to loonies, sovereignists to tuques,
>  pogey to baby bonus to wind-chill factor, Canadians use a variety of
>  English distinct from British or American English.
>
> "Wind-chill factor" has been a part of my regular vocabulary for
many
> years (Northeast US all my life, except for 7 years in Berkeley). I don't
> see how Dan can have missed that. At first I thought he might be from
> Dallas or Atlanta or some place where the number is never used, but
> Minneapolis?!

I live in Minneapolis. It's not where I'm from, which I consider to
mean place of origin.

I missed that mistake in the article. But I'm rather surprised that
there's only _one_ detectable mistake in a newspaper article.

For that matter, there's a mystery novel titled "The Wind Chill
Factor"; and if I recall correctly, it's set in Minnesota.

> Date:  Thu, 21 Aug 1997 21:21:58 -0400
> From:  "Peter L. Patrick" <PPATRICK[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GUVAX.ACC.GEORGETOWN.EDU>
> Subject: Re: Wind-chill factor
>
> I'm perfectly willing to believe that we USers invented "wind
chill"
> instead of those other Norther Americans. But remember, just because
> something is familiar doesn't mean it's "native". How many people are
> aware that "canoe" is a Jamaicanism?

It is? I took it for granted that the word came from the French
"canot" and probably came from a part of North America where English
and French were in close contact.

Dan Goodman
dsgood[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]visi.com
http://www.visi.com/~dsgood/index.html
Whatever you wish for me, may you have twice as much.