Tag archives: snow

Better the weather you know: proverbs and quotations about the weather

22 March is World Water Day, and 23 March is World Meteorological Day, so what better time to celebrate our fascination with foreboding forecasts? Threatening thunderstorms and disconcerting downpours crop up time and time again in popular proverbs and quotations, and not least because of the abundance of words that rhyme with ‘rain’. Perhaps the [...]

Posted on: 22 March 2013 | Posted by: Rachel May | Comments: 2 | Categories: Dictionaries and lexicography, English in use | Tags: cold, English, Little Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, Oxford Dictionary of Quotations by Subject, proverbs, quotations, rain, snow, weather, World Meteorological Day, World Meteorological Organisation, World Water Day

Are there really hundreds of Eskimo words for snow?

Debunking a word myth

Having just moved to Toronto, Ontario from Berkeley, California, one thing that is on my mind, as well as on my front yard, is snow. Crunching through the drifts on my way to the subway, or when I walk my dog Dexter, gives me a lot of time to contemplate the unfamiliar white stuff.

Posted on: 6 January 2011 | Comments: 2 | Categories: English in use, Word origins | Tags: eskimo, snow, urban legend, word myth