Pet Peeves

[Doug Drown]

And then there's the ubiquitous "nor'easter," a term which, in my fifty-four
years as a born-and-bred Yankee, I've never known anyone to use except news
anchors, weather forecasters, and print journalists (who appear to have
picked it up from the former).

Edward Rowe Snow would be mightily offended.

-Doug

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Kolakowski" <rogerkola@aol.com>
To: "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@verizon.net>; "Bill O'Neill"
<billo@shoreham.net>; "Boston Radio Interest"
<boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: Pet Peeves


> > . . . . rain event . . . snow event.  Oooh, yeah.  I wonder how one
> > differentiates between a situation and an event?
>
> If it actually happens? ;-)
>
> Roger
> WESX 1230
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@verizon.net>
> To: "Bill O'Neill" <billo@shoreham.net>; "Boston Radio Interest"
> <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 10:38 AM
> Subject: Re: Pet Peeves
>
>
> > . . . . rain event . . . snow event.  Oooh, yeah.  I wonder how one
> > differentiates between a situation and an event?
> >
> > -Doug
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Bill O'Neill" <billo@shoreham.net>
> > To: "Boston Radio Interest"
> <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 10:11 AM
> > Subject: Pet Peeves
> >
> >
> > > ....rain event...snow event.  Excuse me, it's RAIN, Bunky!
> > >
>
>