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False Spring

Welcome to the Vancouver Lexicon. Its purpose is to pin down the patois of the City of Vancouver by recording its toponyms, nicknames, slang terms, personalities, places, and other Van-centric things. Full A-Z here.

False Spring | phenomenon | An unseasonal stretch of beautiful, sunny and warm weather that sometimes occurs in the depths of winter (usually mid-to-late February), prompting all creatures great and small – not to mention the more hopeful species of plant and flower – to fleetingly and falsely believe that spring has actually sprung. False Spring has long been a welcome phenomenon on the West Coast, but climate change is now making it more common, causing crop failures and dangerously confusing the daylights out of animals and birds.

Usage: “In the midst of a False Spring I know deep in my soul the rain and cold will soon return, but for a moment I indulge the fantasy…”

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