In a message dated 05-05-14, Jean Parrot said to Holger Granholm:   
      
   GE Jean and Paul,   
      
   JP>     Every day that one wakes up in the morning, is nice.   
      
   I have intended to write this since the winter. The meteorologs were   
   talking about North Atlantic Oscillations a couple of years ago when   
   they wanted todescribe the changes of winter weather.   
      
   It took me about a year to find out the meaning of that. The northern   
   region of the earth is covered by a cap hovering above it. What they   
   were saying was in fact that this cap moving east-west governed the   
   winter weather.   
      
   The winter that passed was very cold and with much snow over the east   
   coast of the USA but we got very little snow here and the winter wasn't   
   very cold either. It seem seems to me that the cap stopped oscillating   
   and was fixed in the westward position givin all the foul weather over   
   the eastern part of the USA.   
      
   Then, a short lesson to Paul about the shorthand letters we use.   
      
   GM is Good morning,           OM is Old man   
   GD is Good day                OT is Old timer   
   GA is Good afternoon          OW is Old woman   
   GE is Good evening            AGN is again   
   GN is Good night              CU is See you   
   GL is Good luck               CUL is See you later   
   OC is Old chap                L8ER is Later   
   OB is Old boy   
      
   We are quite a few Hams = Radio Amateurs using these echoes and these   
   Morse acronyms come quite naturally to us.   
      
   Regarding OC it is mostly used among members and ex-ditto of the   
   commonwealth while the US english version is OB.   
      
   CU L8ER,   
      
   Holger   
      
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