Sir, – Emer McLysaght’s “close day” (“In Ireland the vocabulary around rain is bountiful and necessary”, Life, October 11th) reminded me of some of the meteorological euphemisms from my own neck of the woods which would cause raised eyebrows of those from elsewhere. “A sheeven of snow, “a squib of a shower”, and a blizzard was “a sweep o’ snow.” Also “a brightness at the butt of the wind”.
And a day of harsh wind would be “hash weather”. – Yours, etc,
MATTIE LENNON,
Blessington,
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