Today's Forgotten English

cluttery
Cluttery weather is when it is raining with thick clouds all around.

--Maj. B. Lowsley's A Glossary of Berkshire Words and Phrases, 1888

Of the weather, rainy, inclined to be stormy. Of rain, heavy, pelting. Cluttersome, clattersome, of weather, wet, rough, gusty; Hampshire.

--Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, 1896-1905

Also in the form, clittery.

--William Cope's Glossary of Hampshire Words and Phrases, 1883

Feast Day of St. Theodore of Sykeon, a patrom of those enduring damp, rainy weather. Gervase Markham's The Husbandman's Practice (1664) included some indicators of approaching rain: "Ducks and drakes shaking and fluttering their wings when they rise; young horses rubbing their backs against the ground; sheep bleating, playing or skipping wantonly; oxen licking themselves against the hair; the sparking of a lamp or candle; the falling of soot down a chimney; swallows flying low; bells heard further than commonly."

*looks out the window* How apropos. Although I'd be very surprised to see sheep skipping wantonly around Tysons Corner.

How exactly does one skip wantonly? 0.o

-The Gneech

Because It's Silly

Ladies and gentlemen, I present, for your enjoyment, a random picture of Hugh Jackman, being a spaz:



Courtesy of jackman_daily. Can you believe that's Wolverine? Just shows what a difference attitude can make. ;)

-The Gneech