Word twitter: why are both "tornado" and "derecho" Spanish words? Also, the first guy to use "derecho" was a German American in 1888, why did it take so long to name this wind phenomenon? Bonus if you actually know this rather than Googling, a keyboard superpower I also possess.
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(I will also be accepting answers derived from first principles by people too lazy to read the Wikipedia page)
12:52 PM - 10 Aug 2020
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