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    • March 19, 2017 at 9:34 pm #200623
      Howard Brown avatarHoward Brown
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      http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cloud-spotter-airs-new-discovery-vkvd2qx0z

    • March 24, 2017 at 11:33 pm #201658
      Howard Brown avatarHoward Brown
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      I don’t believe it – I added two of today’s media articles in reply to this, then edited it several times adding more articles:
      THE REPLY HAS VANISHED

      and it’s bed-time

    • March 27, 2017 at 11:12 pm #202200
      Howard Brown avatarHoward Brown
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      From Letters to the Editor, The Times (UK), Monday March 27 2017 (I have notified CAS but don’t plan to send it to the WMO).

      FLUFFY FORMS

      Sir, Hurrah for the new clouds (“Enthusiasts with their heads in the clouds make waves”, News, Mar 24) , but asperitas is what any classicist would feel seeing the World Meteorological Organisation’s misty competence at Latin compounds.

      Flammagenitus, cataractagenitus, homomutatus and silvagenitus are magnificent barbarisms: you can’t stick “-genitus” on to the nominative of any noun, and in classical Latin “homo-” compounds are not about people but similarity (homosexual, etc). Latin has a perfectly good word for ‘flame-created’ in flammigena.

      Dr Angus Bowie
      Hackleton, Northants

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