 Poster: A snowHead
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As people in Southern Ontario slapped on sunscreen in the stifling heat, Calgary residents awoke to trees bending and breaking under the weight of snow. Areas around the Calgary airport received 10 centimetres while areas at higher elevations received 15 to 20 centimetres...
Cold lows from the west or south west are normal in the area for this time of year; however this cold low was unusual in that it came straight from the North.
The opposite was true for much of Ontario as temperatures rose into the 30s threatening to break heat records
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070524/weather_extremes_070524/20070524?hub=CTVNewsAt11
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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kiwi1, don't you start. 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| laundryman wrote: |
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| a snowfall advisory |
How I hate that ghastly Americanism! |
But it's a useful one to distinguish from a Snowfall Warning, which is more imminent and serious. A Snowfall Watch, meanwhile is less imminent and serious than an Advisory.
PS. Calgary is not in America.
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ami in berlin, yes it is.
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ami in berlin, how about 'alert'?
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| laundryman wrote: |
| ami in berlin, how about 'alert'? |
But 'Alert' is so ominous. Alert! Alert! We're all going to die! Snow Tornados!
Advisory is so much calmer. We simply advise you that you may encounter a little snow.
And don't let any Canucks hear that crack about Calgary. They tend to get sensative about those sorts of things.
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ami in berlin, I think laundryman means Calgary is in the CONTINENT of america, which include Canada and Mexico as well!
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abc, quite - and that's only North America. If I were a 'Canuck', I'd get p...d off with people from one country equating it with the entire continent - much as the Scots, Welsh and Irish get p...d off (legitimately) with those English who equate England with Britain, the U.K. or the British Isles.
ami in berlin, but if anything it should be (n.) 'advice', not (a.) 'advisory'. In any case, no particular advice (like don't drive, or go skiing the day after tomorrow) is given, merely a prediction of a likely snowfall. Personally, I don't find 'alert' particularly alarming.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Yes, but the noun 'advice' is a plural noun. The National Weather Service could therefore not issue a Snow Advice, it would have to issue a Piece of Snow Advice. That doesn't quite roll off the tounge as well as a Snow Advisory.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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ami in berlin, 'alert' then. 
'Advisory' may roll of the tongue, but only to assault the ears.
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Well, English is not French or German. We do not have an appointed body tasked with maintaining the purity of the language. Rather, English evolves naturally and differently in the many places it is spoken. Advisory (n) may not appear in the Oxford English Dictionary, but it most certainly does in the M-W Dictionary. So we Americans, and our Canadian neighbo(u)rs, don't really care what people on the other side of the pond think of our ghastly Americanisms.
Advisory (n) suits are purposes quite well, thank you.
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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ami in berlin, I'm all for freedom of speech - you can say what you please, and I'll feel free to criticise, as I please, such grating, grammar-defying and needless coinages as advisory (n.) that wing their unwanted way across the Atlantic.
For about 100 years, the U.S. has been the most fertile spawning ground for the English language; and some American coinages I find very pleasing, especially those that are colourful and direct. However, some should be incarcerated in a verbal slammer.
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