adjectives - What kind of rain is "sprinkles"?


It appears that MSN Weather has chosen an amusing adjective (from my British point of view) for the weather today:


Sprinkles


I'm assuming the precipitation (sadly) won't contain any hundreds-and-thousands. To a British person, what is this equivalent to: drizzle, mizzle or deluge?



Answer



Use of sprinkle to describe a light fall of rain is fine in both varieties. Sprinkling is also used in AmE.


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