I blame "RealFeel®" (Patent filed in 2004). Although to their credit, their original wording for that was "apparent temperature".Manalto wrote:As long as we're straying off topic, I have to mention...
Ever since a friend asked me to help her get out of the habit of using the word "actually" (for which I have given her sarcastic thanks for my heightened awareness of this plague on the English language), I hear it peppering every conversation and monologue (the British are the worst offenders) and it's almost always unnecessary. For example, in Gardner's weather records, why is "actual temp" better than "temp"? Along with "actual hi" and "actual lo" - as opposed to what? Imagined? I wonder why this has caught on so powerfully - it's everywhere - and also hope this complaint makes others acutely aware of this current trend of rampant over-use of "actual" and "actually" because misery loves company.
OK, rant over.
Temperature and bugs - they're not really (I didn't say actually, although I could have, properly) off topic, since they're a big part of a window's existence. Too much of a stretch?
I am braced for replies that, in a feeble attempt at humor, profusely use the word.
Related:
Temperature_measurement.
Heat Index
(This bugs me too.)