{"id":12331,"date":"2016-05-03T18:37:36","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T17:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=12331"},"modified":"2016-05-03T18:37:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T17:37:36","slug":"a-monkeys-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=12331","title":{"rendered":"A Monkey&#8217;s Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/rainbow.jpg\" width=\"208\" height=\"208\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 20px 50px;\" alt=\"Photo of a rainbow taken from the Armadale to Mallaig ferry in May 2016 by Simon Ager\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On an episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pri.org\/stories\/2015-07-21\/accent-quiz-swept-english-speaking-world\">The World in Words<\/a> podcast that I listened to today I learnt the expression &#8220;<strong>a monkey&#8217;s wedding<\/strong>&#8220;, which is apparently what you call a day when rain falls while the sun is shining, at least if you live in South Africa or Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>As this is quite a common phenomenon in the UK you&#8217;d think we&#8217;d have a way to refer to it, and apparently we do &#8211; <strong>a monkey&#8217;s birthday<\/strong>. I haven&#8217;t heard of this before. Have you?<\/p>\n<p>Apparently the meteorological term for this is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sunshower\">sunshower<\/a>, and sunshowers are often accompanied by rainbows.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have other words for this in English or other languages?<\/p>\n<p>I know that the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sunshower\">page about sunshowers on Wikipedia<\/a> has a list of these terms from around the world, but I&#8217;m interested in any you know and use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On an episode of The World in Words podcast that I listened to today I learnt the expression &#8220;a monkey&#8217;s wedding&#8220;, which is apparently what you call a day when rain falls while the sun is shining, at least if you live in South Africa or Zimbabwe. As this is quite a common phenomenon in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}