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blizzard – podictionary 145
March 16, 2010
The Oxford English Dictionary claims that blizzard is a fairly new word.
New for them means less than 200 years old.
The earliest citation for the word seems to be 1829 but at first the word didnrsquo;t mean a violent snowstorm, it seemed to mean to hit
Ottawa,
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