Hey everyone!  It’s snowing here in charlotte!

http://www.jpradio.net/livecams/centr-l.jpg

And my office is closed… So I get a snow day!!!

:D

The previous and following images are live links, so the pictures won’t be of the snow once it is gone, but I thought it would be more interesting for everyone to get live pics!

http://www.jpradio.net/livecams/power-l.jpg

P.S.  They’re updated every 15 minutes, I think…

that made my day as I sit here in dreary old England.
Im very impressed with your posting-what a good idea.
thanks

It snowed here in Knoxville/Oak Ridge, TN as well, but I still had to come in to work (though every school district around is off).  I was here at 6:30, but only half or so of my subcontractor personnel are actually here, so not much work will get done today.  I’d rather be home playing in the snow with my puppies…

Mine woke me at 5:00 as well, but that’s the time they usually wake up.  The pups really love snow.  I think they try to see which one can eat the most of it.

I have a small web page with a few pictures of my girls.  I put it up so my mom-in-law can see how they’re growing (she’s in Nevada).

English: Snow
German: Schnee
Dutch: Sneeuw
Russian: Sneg
Polish: Snieg
Frisian: Snie
Greek: Chioni
Latin: Nix
French: Neige
Spanish: Nieve

Hebrew: Sheleg
Arabic: Telg
Maltese: Silg

More?

Jack -

What cute puppies!  Are they paper-trained?  I’m having a problem with my newest rescued puppy.

Tim -

Those are pictures of Charlotte?  I imagined Charlotte as being very elegant and Southerny- looking, with Spanish moss dangling everywhere…And what is a "live" picture??

[quote author=Agoraphile link=board=omni;num=1043320687;start=0#8 date=01/23/03 at 13:25:59]
Latin: Nix

"Nix" is Latin for "snow"?  How did it acquire the meaning "nothing"?

They are Golden Retrievers, and we are still working on the house training (we’re soooo close now).

dgale, a "live picture" is one that automatically updates at a regular interval.  If you come back and look at it in the spring, we should see leaves on the trees (assuming the web cam is still functioning).

Wow.  I am a luddite!

I don’t know how to house-train this puppy - she’s a stray, and about nine months old.  She was fine in a motel room on the paper, but for some reason she does not use the paper in our house.  Also she likes to chew my hair - thinks it’s some kind of chew-toy.

Hey, look at this really obscure reference I found!

Lexemes referring to snow and snow-related notions in
Steven A. Jacobson’s (1984) Yup’ik Eskimo dictionary

Anthony C. Woodbury
University of Texas at Austin
July 1991

...

A. Snow particles

(1) Snowflake
qanuk ‘snowflake’
qanir- ‘to snow’
qanunge- ‘to snow’ [NUN]
qanugglir- ‘to snow’ [NUN]

(2) Frost
kaneq ‘frost’
kaner- ‘be frosty/frost sth.’

(3) Fine snow/rain particles
kanevvluk ‘fine snow/rain particles
kanevcir- to get fine snow/rain particles

(4) Drifting particles
natquik ‘drifting snow/etc’
natqu(v)igte- ‘for snow/etc. to drift along ground’

(5) Clinging particles
nevluk ‘clinging debris/
nevlugte- ‘have clinging debris/...‘lint/snow/dirt…’

B. Fallen snow

(6) Fallen snow on the ground
aniu [NS] ‘snow on ground’
aniu- [NS] ‘get snow on ground’
apun [NS] ‘snow on ground’
qanikcaq ‘snow on ground’
qanikcir- ‘get snow on ground’

(7) Soft, deep fallen snow on the ground
muruaneq ‘soft deep snow’

(8) Crust on fallen snow
qetrar- [NSU] ‘for snow to crust’
qerretrar- [NSU] ‘for snow to crust’

(9) Fresh fallen snow on the ground
nutaryuk ‘fresh snow’ [HBC]

(10) Fallen snow floating on water
qanisqineq ‘snow floating on water’

C. Snow formations

(11) Snow bank
qengaruk ‘snow bank’ [Y, HBC]

(12) Snow block
utvak ‘snow carved in block’

(13) Snow cornice
navcaq [NSU] ‘snow cornice, snow (formation) about to collapse’
navcite- ‘get caught in an avalanche’

D. Meterological events

(14) Blizzard, snowstorm
pirta ‘blizzard, snowstorm’
pircir- ‘to blizzard’
pirtuk ‘blizzard, snowstorm’

(15) Severe blizzard
cellallir-, cellarrlir- ‘to snow heavily’
pir(e)t(e)pag- ‘to blizzard severely’
pirrelvag- ‘to blizzard severely’

...Here are the dialect area abbreviations used:

NS Norton Sound dialect
NSU Norton Sound, Unaliq subdialect
HBC Hooper Bay-Chevak
Y Yukon River area subdialect of General Central Alaskan Yupik dialect
NUN Nunivak

Extracted from Counting Eskimo words for snow: A citizen’s guide.

So it looks like there are different words for the same thing…two for "to snow," three for "snow on ground"...I wonder why the redundancies?

And here’s link to a site dedicated to Norwegian Words About Snow...

49 Words for Snow and Ice from West Greenlandic

. . . and you can hear some of the Inuit words for snow (and other terms) pronounced here.

[quote author=dgale link=board=omni;num=1043320687;start=15#15 date=01/23/03 at 15:39:51]So it looks like there are different words for the same thing…two for "to snow," three for "snow on ground"...I wonder why the redundancies?

I believe it is that when snow is such a major thing in your life, you tend to notice, and be greatly affected by, slight variations. It only looks like redundancy because we lack the words for a 1:1 translation.

I wonder if there is a word for ‘the wrong kind of snow’ which non-Brits might not know is the most frequent excuse for train delays in winter.

Bryn