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Unless you're from Canada, Alaska or Norway this saying will make absolute no sense to anyone: > like fresh snow under foehn
by unixhero 3y ago
Unless you're from Canada, Alaska or Norway this saying will make absolute no sense to anyone:
> like fresh snow under foehn
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- tetha 3y agoWorks for Germany too, since a Föhn is either a kind of warm wind, or a hair dryer.
- johannes1234321 3y agoThe hairdryer is the Fön without h.
- aristidb 3y agoSince the spelling reform of 1996 both are spelled Föhn
- Biganon 3y agoSame in Switzerland, even in the French speaking part
- edwinjm 3y agoSame for Dutch. It's the common name for a hair dryer.
- madduci 3y agoYou get it also under the Alps
- greggyb 3y ago"Fohn" is an English word directly derived from "foehn". I am from none of those places, speak no relevant languages other than English, and I had no trouble with the phrase in question. I appreciate your effort in trying to stick up for me, though (: Perhaps if you want to be more helpful for those people who do conform to your assumptions, you could share a definition, in addition to your criticism. "Fohn, an Englosh derivate of 'foehn', means 'a warm, dry wind', and is known for being particularly effective at melting snow."
- Macha 3y agoI am from a native English speaking country and I had never heard the word foehn or fohn in my life, so assumed it was a typo of foot. Which coincidentally happens to have a similar contention as standing on fresh snow compacts it, but only from the comments did I guess it was supposed to be a melting analogy.
- jhoechtl 3y agoIn German its Föhn which can be written as Foehn
- zht 3y agoI am from Canada and I have no idea what this means
- VancouverMan 3y ago"Chinook" is the term I've heard used for this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook_wind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook_wind
- cratermoon 3y agoIn southern California they call them Santa Ana winds.
- cratermoon 3y agoI had to look it up. I like the word.
- chha 3y agoNorway here, but I didn’t get it. First guess was that foehn meant foot/feet, but I was way off according to the other comments