Jon:
This really made me laugh. Here in Perth, Western Australia it's much the
same for a *hot* day. I won't steal your thunder or humour, but in these
here parts, when it's a very hot day around 40 to 42 degrees centigrade,
people say, 'it's warming up isn't it?'
HH
>From: "Jon Corelis" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Minnesota words for cold
>Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 08:51:46 PDT
>
>I lived for a while in Minnesota, where the local dialect reputedly
>included over seventy words for "cold." Though I never became fluent in
>that language, I can recall a few of them:
>
> prittidarn-cold: ordinary, below freezing cold.
>
> jeezuhzits-cold : cold around 0 F.
>
> kohlderinah-wichestit: cold well below 0 F.
>
> ahmfreezin-mahnutsoff: wind chill factor below -30 F.
>
> ahkantfukkin-bleevthis: too cold to even snow any more.
>
> ahwanngoh-tuh-hawayi: cold which freezes ground snow so
> hard that it squeaks under your boots.
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