Chrysti The Wordsmith: Cloud Terminology

Good day verb of yours and welcome to Christie the wordsmith born in London in 1772 Luke Howard was a successful pharmacist in his shop on London's Fleet Street. Luke Howard manufactured quinine and aspirin important pharmaceuticals. Then as now but the pharmacist was also a devoted cloud Gazer and as such had a profound impact on the language of meteorology. In 18 0 3 Luke Howard published a paper called on the modification of clouds in which he proposed terminologies for three basic types of clouds Cirrus Stratus and cumulus. Howard was a scientist and used the Latin the language of science in cloud naming the word Sirus Latin for tough door lock of hair or fringe. Howard applied to the wispy filaments of high delicate clouds popularly known as mare's tails. The meteorologist called a flat layered clouds Stratus from the Latin straight to him or something laid down and spread out. Two clouds of fluffy and billowy appearance Howard applied the

name Cumulus such clouds are notable for their vertical development reaching 60000 feet into the heavens. Luke Howard used the term cumulus in this case because it's Latin for heap or pile suggesting the shape of this type of cloud. A cousin of cumulus is accumulate etymologically to collect heaps of goods. I'm Christi the wordsmith from Montana State University in Bozeman Christie the wordsmith a sponsored by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Zoot enterprises a high tech firm in Bozeman Montana offering challenging careers and innovative solutions for the financial services industry sued web dot com.