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Green Leap Forward's avatar

Wow, I had no idea. Some of the stories you cite go back a few years too.

Love the dive into origins of words too.

To further confuse things, Spanish speakers also call the weather, "el clima" too.

And there's no distinction between "speed" and "velocity" - one of course being a scalar and the other a vector.

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Rationalista's avatar

In Italian time/weather is Il tempo, and a storm is Il temporale- so the same as the other Latin based “lingue”.

The weather/time distinction in English comes from German- Das Wetter/Die Zeit.

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