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Clary
 
Reply Mon 10 Oct, 2005 01:24 am
We seem to be having a lot of weather these days. There are fascinating differences in the English words used for the same thing. Here in Devon we have 'mizzle' which is a mixture of mist and drizzle, prevalent in the west of England. Apparently in the east they have a sea-mist or 'haar' which must relate to a Dutch word.

Some others are: parky (S E England?) = rather cold
slattery (Yorks)/dreech (Scotland) = wet and miserable
buldering (?west of England) = thundery

Any good ones where YOU are?
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Mon 10 Oct, 2005 01:42 am
I'll be back here at civil twilight, might be not until nautical twilight (but only for reading, since the different German terms wont be enlightening very much here). :wink:
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Merry Andrew
 
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Reply Mon 10 Oct, 2005 02:45 am
In the Northeastern USA, some people use the semi-jocular 'thumpest' -- a combo of thunderstorm and tempest. In the Southwest, a sudden and intense spate of rain is called a 'gully-washer.'
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partyfiend
 
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Reply Wed 12 Oct, 2005 03:27 am
"Aye there's a nip in the air tonight" (=chilly, from Scotland, I think)
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material girl
 
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Reply Wed 12 Oct, 2005 03:58 am
Snirt-a mixture of snow and dirt.
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Clary
 
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Reply Fri 14 Oct, 2005 08:42 am
I remember a line from Sir Gawain and the Greene Knight, mediaeval poem which was:
"The snaw snittered ful snart."

You can imagine it doing that.
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Rod3
 
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Reply Mon 21 Nov, 2005 05:16 pm
It's looking a bit black over Bill's Mother's.

Rain is on the way in Derby.
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carditel
 
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Reply Mon 21 Nov, 2005 05:41 pm
"Wheather"

A bad spell of weather!!!!
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Merry Andrew
 
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Reply Mon 21 Nov, 2005 08:58 pm
Shouldn't we shorten 'snow showers' to 'snowers'?


Nahh, prob'ly not.
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Clary
 
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Reply Mon 21 Nov, 2005 10:45 pm
Rod3 wrote:
It's looking a bit black over Bill's Mother's.

Rain is on the way in Derby.


Those are really interesting, I heard a radio programme on the former, and it appears to be said all over England and yet there must have been the original Bill and his mother...

Sitting in Mumbai today just makes me think Smog, which is a good portmanteau.. would you pronounce snowers to rhyme with showers or as snow-ers?
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Rod3
 
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Reply Tue 22 Nov, 2005 02:22 am
I suppose I must add the Welsh one for it's raining - bwrw glaw pronounced buru glouw. Glaw meaning rain bwrw meaning falling (sort of).
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lezzles
 
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Reply Wed 23 Nov, 2005 08:51 am
We have Southerly Busters - that's a strong wind from the south, usually during a really uncomfortable hot spell, which will take the roof off your house but will cool things down beautifully.
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