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IS IT FOG OR IS IT SMOG?

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Pic.: Chetna Shetty “I s it fog or is it smog?” a lady asked me yesterday, when I said to her 'fog', pointing at the smoky morning-atmosphere outside. That’s the time I realized that ‘fog’ was different from ‘smog’. Well, I knew the difference; but, because we rarely saw this kind of morning atmosphere in the end of January, perhaps, I had forgotten about it… That was, also, the time I realized, that there are words, in English dictionary, which belong to the same lineage… like mist, haze, vog etc. I got curious to know the exact difference… And, you know how easy it is to find the difference, these days. .. It is all just a click away. And, yes, you can get it without moving from your seat! So, because it is all there for you at your finger-tip, I am not going to tell you, in this Post, how fog, smog, mist, haze and vog are different… Pease find out, if you wish to clear the fog! “I n the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed is the kind.” S...
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