okwithmydecay@leminal.space to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 12 days ago‘Seasons have become confused’: the people struggling in UK’s relentless rainwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square19linkfedilinkarrow-up153arrow-down11
arrow-up152arrow-down1external-link‘Seasons have become confused’: the people struggling in UK’s relentless rainwww.theguardian.comokwithmydecay@leminal.space to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 12 days agomessage-square19linkfedilink
minus-squareStinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.cacakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 days agoIs it true that like the Inuit have hundreds of words for snow, that the brittish have hundreds of words for rain?
minus-squareMrSulu@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·11 days agoWe have ways to describe rain from “that fine rain that gets you really wet”, to “its pissing down” and “cats & dogs”. Not quite Inuit levels of specificity. However, you aren’t even British if you can’t hold a solid rain conversation
minus-squareMrsDoyle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 days agoIn Scotland there’s “smirr”, which is a very light drizzle.
Is it true that like the Inuit have hundreds of words for snow, that the brittish have hundreds of words for rain?
We have ways to describe rain from “that fine rain that gets you really wet”, to “its pissing down” and “cats & dogs”. Not quite Inuit levels of specificity. However, you aren’t even British if you can’t hold a solid rain conversation
It’s spitting, it’s spitting
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In Scotland there’s “smirr”, which is a very light drizzle.
No, on both counts.