Re: calling for
- From: "TOF" <fran_beta@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 25 Apr 2006 14:33:45 -0700
Salvatore Volatile wrote:
retrosorter wrote:
My girlfriend who hails from Yorkshire and has been living in Canada
for the last decade remarked that she finds the locution "calling for"
often used by weather forecasters in Canada as in, "We're calling for
thunderstorms" to be a peculiar usage. Can anyone tell me if this usage
of "calling for" is common in other parts of the English-speaking world?
In the US, yes, but I wouldn't expect "*we're* calling for thunderstorms".
Rather, something like "tomorrow's forecast calls for thunderstorms".
Wow! I'd spill my tea if I heard that in AusE.
Thunderstorms are "forecast" or "predicted" but never "called for".
This last would mean that the Bureau of Meteorology thought
thunderstorms were necessary or some sort of requirement.
A typical usage of "calls for" in AusE might be:
"The rising incidence of childhood obesity calls for better designed
programs in schools to increase physical activity amongst children."
TOF
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