User talk:Collierab

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June 2013
I reverted your edit to Lightning, because the common terminolgy is lightning strike, not lightning stroke. A Google search gives 4,280,000 hits for the former, and only 141,000 for the latter.

You also need to look at the Wikipedia definition of a minor edit, as some edits which you have marked as such do not comply. - David Biddulph (talk) 14:26, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi David, thanks for the note. However, this is an instance in which the crowd is not right. There is a very clear distinction between a "lightning strike" and a "lightning stroke" and it is not one that you are likely to find with a simple Google search. The former can act as a verb or noun (like "the lightning strikes the ground" or "we saw a distant lightning strike"), whereas the latter is a noun with a very specific meaning. A given lightning discharge is actually known in the scientific literature as a "flash". A "flash" can be composed of one of more "strokes", where each stroke consists of a distinct (separate in time) pulse of current along the discharge channel. --Collierab (talk) 15:10, 11 May 2014 (UTC)