re: #16 austin_blue

Dear Mr. Yonts;

Our soldiers coming back from the Middle East will absolutely adore this term. Not only have they had to suffer from these “phenomena”, which is what the means in Arabic, but they get the added bonus of reading “Gigantic Haboob Hits Phoenix”, which I assure you is comedy gold for a combat trooper. Please start worrying about *real* problems.

Yours truly,
A_B

We’ve already got “paradise”, “sheriff”, “sheikh”, “jihad”, “mosque”, “mocha”, “intifada”, and surely much beside. Give us your poor, your huddled words, yearning to be English.

We won’t be needing “blizzard”, at the rate things are going. It’s shaping up to a real nakhba of a summer.