Regional variation in words

Discussion in 'General Chatter' started by seebs, May 21, 2015.

  1. Starcrossedsky

    Starcrossedsky Burn and Refine

    Seconded, when we bother to call it anything. usually the reaction to them is everybody looking for a rainbow.
     
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  2. turtleDove

    turtleDove Well-Known Member

    I only remember them being called sunshowers.
     
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  3. BunjyWunjy

    BunjyWunjy Frabjous

    what do you call it when there's a circular rainbow around the sun in the winter?
    we call 'em sundogs here
     
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  4. NevermorePoe

    NevermorePoe Nevermore

    I always thought that that was the official name, as thats what we used in my meteorology class. Apparently, it isn't.
     
  5. BunjyWunjy

    BunjyWunjy Frabjous

    yeah I think there's a bunch of words for them but imho nothing beats Left Hand Sun Dog, which would also be a great name for a prog rock group
     
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  6. kmoss

    kmoss whoops

    left pizza sun beef
     
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  7. Aondeug

    Aondeug Cringe Annoying Ass Female Lobster

    ...a rainbow?
     
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  8. Wiwaxia

    Wiwaxia problematic taxon

    22° halo
    sundogs are specifically the bright spots at the same altitude as the sun
     
  9. paintcat

    paintcat Let the voice of love take you higher

    man door hand hook sun dog?
     
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  10. Starcrossedsky

    Starcrossedsky Burn and Refine

    ... You guys have a word for that?

    (hilariously I've never seen it happen with the sun, only rainbows in mist around bright moons.)
     
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  11. Deresto

    Deresto Foolish Mortal

    That sounds magical
     
  12. paintcat

    paintcat Let the voice of love take you higher

    Ooh, yeah, I love those. No idea what moon-rainbows are called, though. Moondog? Wait, that's probably a band.
     
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  13. BunjyWunjy

    BunjyWunjy Frabjous

    I have literally nothing else to do today
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    WHO WANTS TO FORM A PROG ROCK GROUP WITH ME, TAKING APPLICATIONS NOW
     
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  14. Starcrossedsky

    Starcrossedsky Burn and Refine

    It pretty much fuckin is, yeah. This is the time of year for it (Nov-Feb) when we have our cold fogs up here.
     
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  15. kmoss

    kmoss whoops

    imagine if that was the end result of all kintsugijin conversations
    in twenty years, the forum is dead but the bands live on
     
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  16. BunjyWunjy

    BunjyWunjy Frabjous

    SUNDOG, FIGHTER OF THE MOONDOG
     
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  17. Deresto

    Deresto Foolish Mortal

    pokemon sundog and pokemon moondog
     
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  18. palindromordnilap

    palindromordnilap Well-Known Member

    ... Lycanroc?
     
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  19. prismaticvoid

    prismaticvoid Too Too Abstract

    Yeah, sundogs are the thing where you get bright spots in the sky that look like the sun but aren't.
    Also re: kitty-corner, the other day I was walking to a friend's house with @Wiwaxia and they said the house was kitty-corner from us and I just did not understand. I know it's a thing people say but my brain just cannot remember the meaning for some reason. (We're both Northwesterners but I've spent a lot of time outside the state, idk)
     
  20. IndigoRiffRaff

    IndigoRiffRaff FACE GOD AND WALK BACKWARDS INTO HELL

    Re: kitty-corner, my dad says "catty-corner". He grew up in the middle of absolute nowhere, interacting with mostly sheepherders, so he has some weird very regional things he says so maybe this is one of them???
    Also I have never heard "sundog" before in my life. Apparently it is just not a thing that anyone around here says, or no one feels the need to use a word for it?
     
    Last edited: Nov 26, 2016
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