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Where did the word ‘nor’easter’ come from?

The contracted form of “nor’easter” has inspired feelings as strong as the storm’s gusts. Its various detractors have called it “a fake, pseudo-Yankee neologism,” a “festering sore in today’s marine and weather journalism” and “faker to me than the lederhosen at the Biergarten in Walt Disney World.”