Yet another pointless question
What is the progressive (-ing) form of “freezing rain”. Is it “freezing rain”, “freezing raining”, “freezinging raining”, something else? (Is it only a noun? Unlikely.)
Pointless bonus question: What is the current weather in Montreal?
January 18th, 2006 at 12:44 am
“freezing” is adjective modifying the noun “rain”. When you use the verb form of “rain”, you need the adverbial form of “freezing” - “freezingly”? I would vote for “it is raining freezingly”, or “freezingly raining”.
We’re just having plain old rain in northern California tonight.
January 18th, 2006 at 1:20 am
It is raining freezing rain.
January 18th, 2006 at 10:48 am
“It is raining and freezing“? (Actually, Möbius Stripper’s suggestion sounds more natural to me, but I’m trying to get away from the repetition.)
January 18th, 2006 at 11:04 am
I say, “It’s freezing rain out there!” I think that’s what we say in New England. The other suggestions make sense but I have never heard anyone say them.
January 18th, 2006 at 11:06 am
Wait — I think I’ve heard someone say, “It is raining freezing rain.”
January 18th, 2006 at 2:19 pm
I think normally I would say “Look, freezing rain!” or MS’s suggestion, but I think now I need to say freezingly raining, because is sounds so odd.
January 20th, 2006 at 8:16 pm
I am torn between proposing a northwestern European version, along the lines of, “It now outside freeze-raining is,” and suggesting the practical implicative tense, as in, “Jesus, somebody’s gonna get killed out there.”
On third thought, in our neighborhood (as in wolfa’s), the latter might be even better said, “It is wire-downing out there.”
January 25th, 2006 at 3:02 pm
Might we not say “sleeting”?
January 25th, 2006 at 4:17 pm
Well, we could, if it were sleeting. But when there is freezing rain (convenient nominalisation!), it would be odd to call it sleet.
January 27th, 2006 at 4:19 am
Freezing rain is falling?
March 9th, 2006 at 5:58 pm
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