| Jimi |
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| 09/05/2008 14:57 |
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Re: Coastal fog - what do you call it?
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We used to call that mixture of mist and drizzle mizzle
Wasn't that word invented by David Ike?
Possibly, but must have been in one of his a previous lives, again probably of Dutch origin
miz·zle 1 (mzl)
intr.v. miz·zled, miz·zling, miz·zles
To rain in fine, mistlike droplets; drizzle.
n.
A mistlike rain; a drizzle.
[Middle English misellen; probably akin to Dutch dialectal mieselen