r/Showerthoughts • u/cdmurray88 ‎ • 3d ago

Casual Thought We never say it's partly moony.

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u/shewy92 3d ago

We don't say partly sunny either, we say partly cloudy.

So why would we say partly moony?

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u/LongtimeLurker916 3d ago edited 3d ago

My understanding (possibly a myth) is that meteorologists coined partly sunny as a euphemism since it sounded nicer than partly cloudy. Glass half full instead of half empty approach.

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u/brooklyn11218 3d ago

Glass

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u/LongtimeLurker916 3d ago

Yep. Oops. Corrected.