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[edit] Vog
This article lists "vog" as a portmanteau of "volcanic” and “fog," designed to elicit comparisons to “smog.” It may be more appropriate and cleverer to list it as a portmanteau of ‘volcanic” and “smog,” preceded or followed by the point that this is a portmanteau of a portmanteau, but I did not feel strongly enough about this to change the main article. -- Paul
- It would be a portmanteau of volcanic+smoke+fog then. I'm not keen on portmanteaus - isn't there a better scientific term for this fairly common phenomenon? --MacRusgail 18:15, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
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- Haven't found a better term, but I solved the problem by defining the term. By the way, I live near the Kilauea volcano, and it's common knowledge that "vog" is derived from "volcanic" plus "smog" [not 'fog'] (because it's so very similar to smog, and equally as toxic, and even more hazardous to one's respiratory health, and is a major health hazard for residents of this island), so I changed that as well. Softlavender (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 03:36, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
