It's information I learned from a professional volcanologist several years back, so given the time frame, I'd say there's room for a flaw in my memory. Upon a quick check of [[Typhoon]] and of [[Tsunami]], it appears my memory failed me. ;-)
Heh, I didn't do well in that class, anyway. Bob On 3/16/2011 1:34 AM, Carcharoth wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Bob the Wikipedian > <bobthewikiped...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm not sure how helpful it is, but yesteryear's word for "tsunami" was >> "typhoon". You might consider searching for typhoons as well. > I'm not sure that is correct. Typhoons are hurricanes. Are you > thinking of "tidal wave"? They aren't that either, but I saw another > Wikipedian using the term tidal wave and I cringed. Apologies if that > Wikipedian is reading this! :-) > > Carcharoth > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
