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188 Words for Rain
  • ISBN: 9781785948541
  • Pages: 208
  • Publisher: BBC Books
  • Binding: Hardback

188 Words for Rain

Alan Connor
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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. In this delightfully damp tour of the British Isles, writer Alan Connor digs deep into the meaning and quirky histories of over one hundred words for precipitation.



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