Words for the wise from the mouth of a fool.

Saturday, February 08, 2003

Zusty pointed me to the online Harvard Dialect Survey, worth taking if you can spare a half hour or so. If not, you can still take a look at the results. I'm glad to see that the bubbler folks are in the minority. Sometimes it's the little things that keep you warm in the dark, cold night.

The question with the strangest possible answers (as already noted by Zusty):

80. What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
a. sunshower
b. the wolf is giving birth
c. the devil is beating his wife
d. monkey's wedding
e. fox's wedding
f. pineapple rain
g. liquid sun
h. I have no term or expression for this
i. other


My answer was "sunshower", but I'm seriously thinking about changing to "monkey's wedding".


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