Stroll Seen while strolling...walking and wandering outside

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Well, I think that "warm, dry wind" simply gave rise to the German word for hairdrier which in turn got imported into Finland. In German, a hairdrier is called "Föhn" - it's the canonical word, not some kind of slang. When it was imported is hard to guess - it may be a bit older than the fifties, though: In the thirties, Finland showed a lot of affinity to Germany for a while (a common enemy makes for a lot of excuses and opportunistic blindness - and hindsight's always sharper anyway).

M.

In Dutch, its even the verb for drying your hair with a föhn: föhnen.
Definitely an imported word, föhn
 
I haven't taken many pictures here in Washington since I don't find it very inspiring, and I've been spending time reorganising my blog and website. This has involved revisiting old pictures I had forgotten about including this one I tooke while strolling round Tokyo a few years ago. I never posted it before because I could never get it to a place I liked, mostly because of the tricky colour balance. So I decided to forget about trying to get it right and go for a completely different look.

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