Ha! Just pounced upon another treat: an ebook that may prove very useful and full of treasure

A bibliographical list of the works that have been published or are known to exist in ms that are illustrative of the various dialects in English. Compiled by Members of The English Dialect Society Edited by Rev Skeat and J H Nodal.

I have to confess I quite expired with excitement on discovering this title was included: The Handbook of Weather Folklore being a collection of proverbial sayings in various languages etc… (The description included the term: weather fiction)

In hummingbird state I depart in search of it.

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Post script

Alas I return a pigeon, it wasn’t to be found. I’ll try to find it through the library instead.