Xsnow appears in Wikipedia, where it's described as a piece of software that creates the appearance of snow on a computer screen. Originally used for greetings cards - presumably Christmas ones.
a) The IJ is more a river than a lake nowadays. Large parts of it have been drained to allow for the growth of the city.
b) The diphthong ij is written with two capitals in names and places: IJmuiden, IJsbrand, IJsland, IJssel.
Amsterdam is home to EYE Film Museum which was built on the bank of the IJ. Which is funny because the sounds eye / ij are very similar - especially in the local accent.
UT is a musical note in an earlier scale of notes, now replaced by ‘doh’. UT is also a variant of ‘ute’, a utility vehicle.
WIV is listed in The Oxford English Dictionary as a variant of ‘with’, being three letters shorter than WHATEV.
Xsnow appears in Wikipedia, where it's described as a piece of software that creates the appearance of snow on a computer screen. Originally used for greetings cards - presumably Christmas ones.
I have to protest on two accounts:
a) The IJ is more a river than a lake nowadays. Large parts of it have been drained to allow for the growth of the city.
b) The diphthong ij is written with two capitals in names and places: IJmuiden, IJsbrand, IJsland, IJssel.
Amsterdam is home to EYE Film Museum which was built on the bank of the IJ. Which is funny because the sounds eye / ij are very similar - especially in the local accent.
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