More 'blokey', OK. So that's the noun — rain; the verb — rain; and the adjective — rainy. The word snow works in the same way. Listen to this another clip.
Sadly, since totem poles are carved from wood and wood tends to rot over time in rainy places, like the Pacific Northwest, very few totem poles remained that were made before the 1900s.
These six dams, and the reservoirs of waters they hold behind them, rely almost entirely on this usual rainfall during the wetter winter months to recharge their supplies.
French officials say a cold and stormy spring followed by a summer drought are expected to push wine production down by almost 10 percent this year compared with last.
But their main subjects were the animals they saw, including hippos, giraffes, elephants, rhinos, and antelope -- species now more closely associated with wetter parts of Africa.