Yes they do!! They smugly invent new names for things that have always been, giving them 'ownership' of those things. How about "thunder snow"? As far as I've always known, it is simply a low-level atmospheric electrical disturbance that can occur during rainstorms, snowstorms, or even in excessively dry windy conditions, that is known as lightning - not "thunder snow".
How about all of the new names for every single full moon in the last couple of decades?
Before that we only had the twelve full moon names the Native Americans knew them as.
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"I'm a Setter man.
Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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