Words the Weather Gave Us

The Words Series: Book 4

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Mythology, Educational, World History, and Nonfiction Novels

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The Words Series — Book 4

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Nov 9, 2026

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Words the Weather Gave Us

The Words Series: Book 4

Advance Reader Copy

Blurb

For word geeks, weather buffs, and anybody who has ever moaned about the rain.

“Words The Weather Gave Us” provides all the words you need to chat about the weather, from afterclap to zephyr, along with the stories behind them. Ever since early English runes were named for hail, ice, and sun and helped form the language, we’ve been talking about the weather.

This book, the fourth in the series, explores delightful words like petrichor, degombling, apricity, bumbershoot, dreich, and impluvious.

More than 330 words and phrases are featured—drawn from clouds, weather folklore and phrases, storms, winds, the history of forecasting, rain, sunny days, tales of the many times weather changed the course of history, and even extraterrestrial weather.

It’s time to grab your umbrella, don your sunglasses, and venture outdoors, whatever the weather.

Ideal for word geeks, weather buffs, and anybody who has ever moaned about the rain.

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Genres

Mythology, Educational, World History, and Nonfiction Novels

Trigger Warnings

None

Type of Ending

AI Usage^Beta

Series

The Words Series — Book 4

Series Read Order

Reading prior books is not required

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Publication Date

Nov 9, 2026

Page Length

239 pages

Available Formats

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Author

Grace Tierney writes in rural Ireland. Her award winning Wordfoolery blog about unusual English words has been running for 17 years exploring everything from “pooka” to “friggatriskaidekaphobia”.

Grace’s favourite eponymous hero is Casanova because his swashbuckling life was so extraordinary, yet he ended up as a quiet librarian. Her favourite word from the sea is gollywobbler because it's silly. Her favourite Viking words are hug and attercop because it's from her beloved childhood book "The Hobbit". Her favourite Christmas word is twixtmas because she loves that quiet time between Christmas and New Year's Eve. She loves the weather words degombling and dreich.