Originally Posted by
caloso
"Wazzing down...." I love it. Just like the Inuit have dozens of words for snow, the English have as many for rain?
More or less, yes
Pouring, lashing, tipping, pi**ing, driving, hammering, pelting, raining stair rods, chucking it down, hoying it down, throwing it down, raining cats and dogs, persisting....
Yet so few ways to describe sunshine...