When I'm writing, I use
Thesaurus.com to to find just the right word. Yesterday's post about weather and snow days had me searching for synonyms for meteorologist. The site is usually pretty straightforward, but my search turned up some
strange results. This was the first:
Main Entry: prophet
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person, thing that predicts future
Synonyms: astrologer, augur, auspex, bard, clairvoyant, diviner, druid, evocator, forecaster, fortuneteller, haruspex, horoscopist, magus, medium, meteorologist, oracle, ovate, palmist, predictor, prognosticator, prophesier, reader, seer, seeress, sibyl, soothsayer, sorcerer, tea-leaf reader, witch, wizard
The other entries were in the same vein, listing words like nostradamus, prophetess, and vaticinator. At Thesaurus.com they mustn't be crazy about the people that forecast the weather!
Oh isn't that funny? There they are...listed right with the tea-leaf readers! lol!
ReplyDeleteGood one! lol
ReplyDeleteAll I can say is meteorologists in Hawaii rarely get the future weather right.
ReplyDeleteSmiles :)
ReplyDeleteHa!......smiles.
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