My mom, who grew up as the seventh generation of her family in Maryland, said “the devil is beating his wife.”
Comment on human geography
binarytobis@lemmy.world 2 days ago
“Sun shower” or “The devil is beating his wife”
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Flames5123@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I grew up in the center of Mississippi. I always called it “the devil is beating his wife”. Idk why it was ever called that because there was no story; it’s just how it is.
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
We had “the devil is beating his wife behind the kitchen door with a frying pan” and sometimes really old people would finish it with “on Sunday”
I seriously have no idea where the fuck this comes from, and it’s so weird and I love it
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
this feels like two students were having an argument and the one who said “everyone says the devil is beating his wife” lost by a lot
GraniteM@lemmy.world 2 days ago
“Foxes getting married”
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
That’s an incredibly difficult map to decipher
Serinus@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It makes more sense when you have the background that most people don’t have a term for that.
Because of course that’s what you’re looking for at first. But yeah, I get that the “no term” data is actual positive data that they surveyed, and they want to make that distinct from “no survey data” but…
binarytobis@lemmy.world 2 days ago
True