How we know it's spring

[rsc]

On Monday, we had our annual meeting to divide up the Red Sox tickets.

Also on Monday, I planted the first set of seeds indoors.

(Oh, and there are those crocuses and snowdrops in the yard.)

Comments

[keyne.livejournal.com]

(Oh, and there are those crocuses and snowdrops in the yard.)

<sigh> There are times I really hate being in Zone 5B.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Are you really significantly behind Cambridge? (Actually, I suppose you would be; certainly Gloucester is, while still technically Zone 6.)

[keyne.livejournal.com]

Definitely. We tend to be considerably cooler than the city, especially in the spring and fall. We're a bit higher than y'all, remember, and there are all those 50-foot pines blocking the sun... :)

[malte.livejournal.com]

I'd post this to motss, but my newsserver has started charging and I haven't had the guts to risk google yet:

Your Law seems to have competition. Can you claim prior art?
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002035.html

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Not sure. The referenced article is dated 20 April 1999, and although I'm way too lazy to check, I suspect that I called it Coren's Law earlier than that.

His is clever, though, in being an example of itself.

Anyway, I'm going to continue to call it Coren's Law in the places that matter to me.

[malte.livejournal.com]

Here's the earliest reference I could find, from Sep 29, 1998.