Weather Words
Word of Mouth
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The Sea Fog in Scotland?
In scotland, snell means keen or bitter and hoar frost h o a r is just biting cold. In welsh you can talk about buhenragedatin er, it was raining an old women and sticks. And there's also that expression about the devil beating his wife in africans. But i'm sure people would dispute that for evermore. I think if we look at terms around the world, for a, describing heavy rainfall, like in english, famous we say rain cats and dogs. There are all sorts of fantastical, desperate attempts to explain that with folk etymology.
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