snow

[Cyborg]

In Scandinavia the letter "w" is called "dobbel v"(double v), and not "dobbel u"(double u) as in English.

This is a big difference. We pronounce it exactly as we pronounce "v", and almost never use it.

In England, the "w" is pronounced more like a "u" than a "v", because it's called "double u".

In Germany, "v" is pronounced "f", so they pronounce "w" as Englishmen pronounce "v" just to have that sound.

Where Norwegians falter is often on the "r" and the "v", because they are different. Where I come from, Bergen, we have a German "r", which is very far from the English "r". However, if you practise a bit on it, it's easy.

[Emperor Harkonnen]

we don't use these letters in norwegian, though we have them in our alphabet: c q w x z

the reason is that for c we have s or k, for q we have k for w we have v for x we have ks and we don't have the sound z in norwegian.

in addition we have these letters: æ ø å

[DLAGhost]

Anyone see the big hockey games we had here this weekend in Edmonton. -20 and everyone sat outside for 6 hours to watch.

[Cyborg]

It's called enthusiasm, I think ;)

[Andrew]

I saw the old timers, I had a chance to go, but I didn't drink enough Molson Canadian beer.(to win a free trip)

And no snow here yet. :O

And its around 0 -> 6 degrees lately. :)

[Mahdi]

0 today. Was 16 yesterday.

[Jack Leaf]

Whooho, the meter shows now + 2... ;)

[Andrew]

Finally we are getting some real snow now. It held off pretty good this year.

Time to get out my snowsuit, dogsled and snowshoes to get to class. ;) (I keep them all in my small closet, but racoons pull my sled not dogs, as racoons eat my garbage and make great pets. ;D )

[Jack Leaf]

It's getting under zero now... Not yet snow, though. Still using my leather jacket, but now I need to wear woollen hat on the morning so my ears don't freeze.

[thomas]

hmm Californias 5-day forcast . . .

thursdays high will be a comfortable 78 degrees F and thursdays low will be a chilly 47 degrees F, I better wear a sweatshirt tomorrow :D

[Andrew]

Yah! winter storm!

heres our weather forcast:

Heavy snowfall warning in effect.

Wind warning in effect.

Today..Snow at times heavy occasionally mixed with ice pellets. Local blowing snow. Amount 15 cm. Wind increasing to northeast 50 km/h gusting to 90. Temperature steady near plus 1.

Tonight..Snow at times heavy. Amount 20 cm. Local blowing snow. Wind northeast 50 km/h gusting to 90. Temperature steady near zero.

Monday..Periods of snow. Amount 15 cm. Wind northeast 50 km/h gusting to 90 diminishing to 40 gusting to 70 late in the day. Temperature steady near plus 1.

http://pei.cbc.ca/servlet/Weather?query=Charlottetown&region=charlottetown&timeZone=America/Halifax

Beat that :)

I think My power is gonna go out sometime soon. So I may not be back online for a couple of days. Yah, 45 cm of snow, and I don't even got all my winter clothing accesories.(got an exam monday night :()

The storm is also reported at CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WEATHER/12/07/winter.storm/index.html

But they only mention N.S. and Newfoundland, they must not think we count ;)