188 Words for Rain

A delightfully damp tour of the British Isles, led by natural forces (an official BBC Weather book)

Alan Connor

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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft

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Alan knows everything, knows everyone, and writes beautifully too. RICHARD OSMAN The man with the contents of the Oxford English Dictionary stored just above his left eyebrow and he s quite funny too. RORY CELLAN-JONES'A gorgeous, funny tour of the British Isles as seen from the clouds. KONNIE HUQFor fans of THE ETYMOLOGICON and VERY BRITISH PROBLEMS, a delightfully damp tour of the British Isles. Mizzle. Dreich. Raining knives and forks. A real mugga-fisty. A spot of plother...We Brits love talking about the weather. So much so that our islands have hundreds of words and phrases for rain, some self-explanatory and others that really leave us scratching our heads. From a light smirr in Aberdeen to a "e;it's raining knives and forks!"e; in the Brecon Beacons, each type of rain tells a story about the people and places it falls on.In this delightfully damp tour of the British Isles, writer and puddle-splasher Alan Connor digs deep into the meaning and quirky histories of over one hundred words for precipitation. He gets caught in a plash in Northumberland, crashes a fox's wedding in Devon and ponders the phenomenon of Brits-who-picnic-in-the-car, in this charming and witty celebration of our very British obsession.

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