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Do Americans know what drizzle is?
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“Gumshoe” is old American slang for a detective -- for obvious reasons.
I should think the Brits would spell it “drissle.”
Seriously, there's nothing uniquely British about the word drizzle. Unlike, for example, roundabout, petrol, chemist's, boot and bonnet (of a car), flat, pram, lift, and knickers.
I love saying knickers.
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Take Fanny for instance...
Vagina?
Exactly
In Canada we have a place called Fanny Bay.
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In Canada we have a place called Fanny Bay.
Is it a tight channel that rarely welcomes able seamen, or a more well-known, frequently-used passage?
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In Canada we have a place called Fanny Bay.
Is it a tight channel that rarely welcomes able seamen, or a more well-known, frequently-used passage?
Exactly
In Canada we have a place called Fanny Bay.
Is it a tight channel that rarely welcomes able seamen, or a more well-known, frequently-used passage?
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Its a tight channel matey, but if you give offerings to mother earth you may be able to enter her channel and score some booty.
It's one of my favourites (especially the Sylkscreen remix), even though when I bought Boys for Pele, I couldn't stop listening to Mr. Zebra and after ten times I went out again to order the first two albums and Choirgirl and then listened to the rest of the Boys.
Fuck, now I'm in mood for some Tori Amos - off to find the CDs.
(wiki.....)Take Fanny for instance...
I did not know that! Makes me wonder what the Brits think when they hear Americans use the term "fanny pack"! 
(wiki.....)Take Fanny for instance...
We use them for surgical emergencies.
(wiki.....)Take Fanny for instance...
We usually giggle in a childish manner
We do this as well whenever someone says a character in a film is spunky or has a lot of spunk.
Fo' shizzle mah fa-rizzle drizzle.
I always figured
"Misting" as when the moisture was barely into drops, but more like a very humid fog, where there's not really drops, but a lot of moisture in the air. Like at waterfalls sometimes, excluding the actual drops of water.
"Sprinkling" was a light and sparse rain with very small drops, and could be on and off.
"Drizzle" was more constant and with more definite drops--and continous, that's the big thing, it's continuous.
Then there's "rain," definite and large drops.
"Pouring" is heavy rain, both in quantity and size of drops.
I don't know. When it's wet out, we use one of the words and we know what's meant.
"Misting" as when the moisture was barely into drops, but more like a very humid fog, where there's not really drops, but a lot of moisture in the air. Like at waterfalls sometimes, excluding the actual drops of water.
"Sprinkling" was a light and sparse rain with very small drops, and could be on and off.
"Drizzle" was more constant and with more definite drops--and continous, that's the big thing, it's continuous.
Then there's "rain," definite and large drops.
"Pouring" is heavy rain, both in quantity and size of drops.
I don't know. When it's wet out, we use one of the words and we know what's meant.
If its starting to rain up here we say "its starting to spit", or "Its spitting".
In Oklahoma and Texas, a particularly hard rain is sometimes referred to by farmers and cowboys as, "It's raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock".
It's funny, I was thinking about this earlier. I don't know if it ever really 'drizzles' in Glasgow. The rain is always that little bit heavier. I guess it must, but I don't know.
I think it's more of a northern thing. Growing up in SW Texas, my family seemed to be the only ones who referred to "drizzling." Instead, most in this region seem to call it "sprinkling." But to answer the question, yes, some of us do.
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