Re: Explanation

In article <1132576420.238312.184290@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Young Sociolinguist <spooky.fm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It wasn't exactly my idea. An English teacher from Wales I met in
> England told me that the idiom 'it's raining cats and dogs' was
> something he had never used or heard in everyday life, but often
> encountered in handbooks, so this is his opinion rather than mine.

It was an everyday expression when I was a child in the 1960s in
the south of England. I have always remembered a short humorous
poem that my best friend in junior school wrote when we were about
10 or 11 years old:

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It's raining cats - meow!
It's raining dogs - woof!
It's coming down in buckets - clang!
One hit me - oof!

(copyright 1968, Christopher Tweed)
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Cheers
Tony
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Tony Mountifield
Work: tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - http://www.softins.co.uk
Play: tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - http://tony.mountifield.org
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