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Elaevia

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    bwrw – to rain

    glawio – raining

    dafnu – spotting

    pigo – spotting

    glaw mân – drizzle

    gwlithlaw – drizzle

    brasfrwrw – big spaced drops

    sgrympian – short sharp shower

    cawodi – showering

    arllwys – pouring

    tollti – pouring

    dymchwel – pulling down

    brylymu – pouring very quickly

    llifo – flooding

    towlud – throwing

    taflu – throwing

    hegar law – fierce rain

    lluwchlaw – sheets of rain

    chwipio bwrw – whiplash rain

    pistyllio – fountain rain

    curlaw – beating rain

    tywallt – absolutely bucketing

    stido – thrashing down

    tresio – maximum intensity

    Mae hi’n brwr hen wragedd a ffyn – It’s raining old women and sticks

    From Sue Clifford and Angela King (ed.), Local Distinctiveness: Place, Particularity and Identity (London: Common Ground, 1993), p. 19.

    'raining old ladies with sticks' is my favouritist weather saying!

     

    Never heard it outside welshy Wales!

  2. Have just finished, eyes not quite working after reading for two days straight!

     

    Feel generally happy and satisfied, knowing how it ends, looking forward to rereading at a much slower pace!

     

    Really pleased that there were a few more interesting ways of using gateways: not just the step through kind!

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