Thursday, September 18, 2008

Word of the Day

Word of the day:

Haboob.

Violent African dust storm.

3 comments:

Janice Thomson said...

Well that's a different word though not one I'll probably use a lot.
Wikipedia has a good article on it too.

Lone Grey Squirrel said...

Haboob? We'll see more of those due to climate change. Thanks for the info.

Anonymous said...

I'm going to have to try to work "haboob" into my conversation.

Hope the trip to Mt. Vernon is fun.