Comment on ‘Seasons have become confused’: the people struggling in UK’s relentless rain

MrSulu@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is it true that like the Inuit have hundreds of words for snow, that the brittish have hundreds of words for rain?

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  • MrSulu@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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

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    • doopen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s spitting, it’s spitting

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      • MrSulu@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        🤣👌

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    • MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In Scotland there’s “smirr”, which is a very light drizzle.

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  • zwerg@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No, on both counts.

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