Brian Wakem wrote:
Les Hemmings wrote:

Your reporters, on TV and on Radio 4, used the term "mini-tornado". There
was nothing "mini" about this perhaps Torro 4 tornado. Ask the injured,
the people without roofs, those with structural damage. A tornado is a
tornado, wherever it happens.
For years we've had to put up with this "mini-tornado" claptrap from the
BBC. Tornados happen worldwide. Perhaps if it had been central London you
would have used the correct term. A T4 would easily topple the London Eye,
would you have called that a "mini-tornado"?


Les



The term 'mini-tornado' is used so often that I think Joe Public now thinks
that real tornadoes don't/can't happen in this country, so anything
resembling a tornado must be a 'mini-tornado'.

Better education is needed. Although if educayshoon keeps decline at the
current rate, nobody will even now what a tornado is in 20 years.



I was disappointed to hear Stewart McConie, one of Radio's more
cerebral DJs, refer to it as a hurricane, though I rather think it may
have been a slip of the tongue.



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Brian Wakem