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Old 03-16-2017, 11:38 AM
 
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In fairness, I only ever hear it on the news, never in conversation with someone. Usually it's referred to as dust storm, if someone says here comes a haboob I'd probably think they were talking about something much more fun
Thats, "...h'boobs"!
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Old 03-16-2017, 11:46 AM
 
Location: East Central Phoenix
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RoRo is pretty commonly used for Roosevelt Row, but there are so many other names for different areas that people make up ... supposedly to either sound hip or cute, but they sound more ridiculous than anything else. I've even heard south Scottsdale referred to as SoSco. I'm wondering what the area around 64th Street & Lafayette Blvd. would be referred to: Scocadia? Or the stretch of Shea Blvd. between Scottsdale & Fountain Hills: ScoFo?
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Old 03-16-2017, 11:48 AM
 
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I am a native Phoenician born at St. JoJo's in 1948. I have never seen or heard Roro until this morning in this thread. I thought about it a while and figured it out.
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Old 03-16-2017, 11:51 AM
 
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Yes, Chandler is so boring and bland. I wish I had a brown hill to look at, instead of jogging past this big blob every day To each their own


Suburbs are suburbs. You can have it!
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Old 03-16-2017, 11:55 AM
 
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Only Scooby Doo would say something like RoRo. (Or maybe "Rut-Ro" would be more accurate?)
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Old 03-16-2017, 11:58 AM
 
Location: Tempe, AZ
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Not says the transplant. Says the American Meteorological Society. How can you argue with that? It's not some contrived word made up out of nowhere. Your insistence that it's somehow a hip word is ridiculous.
Who cares they have always been called dust storms here it only started when the news stations started saying it. Now it's a hipster or clueless transplant thing to say.
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Old 03-16-2017, 12:09 PM
 
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Suburbs are suburbs. You can have it!
Sorry I didn't know you lived on the 48th floor of a high rise in our very cosmopolitan downtown

The entire valley is suburban in nature.
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Old 03-16-2017, 12:14 PM
 
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I am fluent in ig-pay atin-lay and am confused by these things.
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Old 03-16-2017, 12:18 PM
 
Location: AriZona
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"RoRo" and "CenPho".....
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I am fluent in ig-pay atin-lay and am confused by these things.
My understanding is that all of this abbreviating began with BFF teenage girls speed-texting each other.
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Old 03-16-2017, 12:23 PM
 
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Who cares they have always been called dust storms here it only started when the news stations started saying it. Now it's a hipster or clueless transplant thing to say.
I'm sure you know more about meteorological terms than the AMS. Oh no, the hipsters are using their thesaurus!

LOL!
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