NatteGazet

My first example of a whatsina? is called SMOG… some call it a new kind of phenomena, but I just think of it as pollution and even admiring our own lil stench by giving it a name…

[sm(oke) + (f)og.]

Smog is not just any fog, but fog that has become mixed and polluted with smoke.

Word History: “New phenomena” require new words, so it is not surprising that smog is a relatively recent coinage. The word followed the phenomenon by perhaps half a century, for air pollution was first noticed during the Industrial Revolution. The word smog is first recorded in 1905 in a newspaper report of a meeting of the Public Health Congress. Dr. H.A. des Voeux gave a paper entitled “Fog and Smoke,” in which, in the words of the Daily Graphic of July 26, “he said it required no science to see that there was something produced in great cities which was not found in the country, and that was smoky fog, or what was known as ‘smog’.” The next day the Globe remarked that “Dr. des Voeux did a public service in coining a new word for the London fog.”

Wikipedia: Smog?

A “little” example of a smoggy/smogless day…

Let’s just all hope that someday, smoggy days are history… and only foggy days remain… -sigh-