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Old 09-12-2013, 12:42 PM
 
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People somewhere refer to rain when it is sunny as "the devil beating his wife" or "a wolf having a baby"?
Yeah, that blew my mind. Those are terrible terms for such a beautiful rain. I don't have a term for that type of rain.
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Old 09-12-2013, 12:52 PM
 
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I just finished the 140 questions and it has me all over the map again.

Basically the only places I have blue is Texas, New England, the Pacific Northwest, and the Northern Great Plains.

I'm orange and yellow everywhere else in the country.
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Old 09-12-2013, 01:03 PM
 
Location: North by Northwest
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Yeah, that blew my mind. Those are terrible terms for such a beautiful rain. I don't have a term for that type of rain.
We called them "sunshowers." Until taking this quiz, I thought everyone called them that.
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Old 09-12-2013, 01:09 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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Yeah, that blew my mind. Those are terrible terms for such a beautiful rain. I don't have a term for that type of rain.
I've never called them anything specific. I remember my dad saying, "a sunshiney shower won't last half an hour" but that's not the same thing.
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Old 09-12-2013, 01:11 PM
 
Location: North by Northwest
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I've never called them anything specific. I remember my dad saying, "a sunshiney shower won't last half an hour" but that's not the same thing.
I guess they're uncommon to the point that people don't really have the opportunity to mull over them/compare terminologies--basically the opposite of the soda/pop/coke and sub/hero/hoagie divide.
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Old 09-12-2013, 01:19 PM
 
Location: Keizer, OR
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It says I belong in Utah. That's odd, I've never even lived there.
However, I enjoy how specific it the map is. I find it funny how there's orange around Houston, and I did live there before, though the rest of Texas is blue.
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Old 09-12-2013, 01:31 PM
 
Location: Beaver County
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Yeah, that blew my mind. Those are terrible terms for such a beautiful rain. I don't have a term for that type of rain.
It's a Southern thing...you wouldn't understand. . Never thought of it as anything more than a saying. I still say it...as well as my youngest son.
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Old 09-12-2013, 01:52 PM
 
Location: North Oakland
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I still can't take the long quiz. It keeps saying

"Server overloaded

Sorry, but the server is too busy to fulfill this request right now. Please try again later."
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Old 09-12-2013, 01:54 PM
 
Location: North by Northwest
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It's a Southern thing...you wouldn't understand. . Never thought of it as anything more than a saying. I still say it...as well as my youngest son.
Any idea how it originated?
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Old 09-12-2013, 02:20 PM
 
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Any idea how it originated?
I found this on Wiki. It makes sense.

"In the United States, particularly in the Southern United States, and in Hungary as well, a sunshower is said to show that "the devil is beating his wife" because he is angry God created a beautiful day. The rain is said to be his wife's tears. A regional variant from Tennessee is "the devil is kissing his wife".[4][5] In French, the phrase is "Le diable bat sa femme et marie sa fille"[6] (i.e., "the devil is beating his wife and marrying his daughter"). In the Netherlands they say that there is a "funfair going on in hell".[7] In St. Kitts and Nevis, when rain is falling and the sun is shining, it is said that 'D devil a bang he wife'. In Liberia, it is said that "the devil is fighting with his wife over a chicken bone."
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