188 Words for Rain: A Delightfully Damp Tour of the British Isles - Official BBC Weather Book | Explore British Weather & Culture | Perfect for Nature Lovers, Travel Enthusiasts & Weather Nerds

Author: Connor, Alan

United Kingdom, Great Britain

Published on 14 November 2024 by Ebury Publishing (BBC Books) in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 208 pages
224 x 143 x 20 | 316g

¡®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.