188 WORDS FOR RAIN

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 it s raining knives and forks 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