an occasional random thought

I called the motor vehicle dept. yesterday to find out about the window tint on a car we bought.  The person who I talked to said we couldn't have it done because of "in-climate" weather.  Really!?  They just said "in-climate?"  I believe the word she wanted is inclement. 

ErichMusick.com - personal website of Erich Musick-software engineer and Christ follower agrees:

Over the past few weeks, we've had some fairly extreme winter weather here in the Midwest. I've heard the word inclement used to describe it on several occasions. Dictionary.com defines this as "(of the weather, the elements, etc.) severe, rough, or harsh; stormy." In their eagerness to use this word, people have abandoned proper spelling. On more than one occasion, I've seen people write inclementin-climate. The prefix in usually negates that which follows. The word climate means, "the composite or generally prevailing weather conditions of a region." Put together, in-climate weather as would refer to weather conditions which are not representative of what is normal for a particular region. That's assuming that in-climate is actually a word.

Curious as to what the experts had to say about this misspelling, I looked it up on Dictionary.com. The only results it yielded were from the U.S. Gazetteer and were names of U.S. cities whose name contains the word "in": Bird In Hand, PA; Cave In Rock, IL; Put In Bay, OH; Howey In The Hil, FL; Lake In The Hill, IL. Reading these names made me think of Native American vocabulary.
My conclusion: Americans need to learn how to spell.

I agree with Erich although I don't believe the motor vehicle person was reading the word, I think they were ignorant of the proper word.