Feb. 6th, 2008

pogonip

Feb. 6th, 2008 07:17 am
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pogonip - n., a dense winter fog of ice particles.


Forms sometimes in mountain valley in the western United States. Dangerous stuff. From Shoshone pakenappeh, used in English since the 1860s, with the stress strongly on the first syllable.

---L.
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