Sir, – I was with interest that I read Emer McLysaght’s article on words for the weather in Ireland (“In Ireland the vocabulary around rain is bountiful and necessary”, Life, October 11th). I remember my dad (a fine Cavan man) saying that the phrase a “dawky day” was used there to describe a day of heavy rain.
For such a small country, we have a plethora of words. – Yours, etc,
BRID FITZPATRICK,
Terenure,
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