Every weather app can tell you it’s −4 degrees and windy. Mauzy tells you the arse is gone right out of ’er, and you’d be foolish to go out in it. Underneath, it’s a real forecast: proper data, the kind you’d trust. On top, it talks the way Nan did looking out her kitchen window: the sayings, the dry comebacks, the words for weather that only exist here. We didn’t invent any of it. We’re just making sure it doesn’t disappear.
Every other app gives you the number. Mauzy gives you the number, and what Skipper would’ve said about it.
Three things going on, every time you open it.
Proper data from Environment Canada: the temperature, the wind, what’s blowing in off the water. The numbers you’d actually plan your day around. We don’t mess with those.
Then Mauzy tells you what the numbers actually mean. Not “wind, 60 gusting 90.” More like: that ignorant out it’d take the door clean off the hinges. The forecast, read the way someone here would say it to you.
Every bit of dialect is tappable. Touch a word like ignorant ignorant (adj.) Nasty, wild. Used for weather that’s gone right foolish. and Mauzy tells you what it means and where it comes from. Not a glossary you study: the language the way it’s actually used, learned one kind of weather at a time. Come-from-aways welcome. You’ll be talkin’ like us in no time.
Words go quiet the way weather does: slowly, then all at once. A saying your grandfather used every day is one your kids might never hear. We just figured the best place to keep these words alive isn’t a museum or a dictionary, it’s the one app you already open every morning to see if you need the good coat. Use the words enough and they stay in your mouth. That’s the whole trick.
Everyone’s got a saying their family uses that never made it into any book. Send us yours. The good ones end up in the app, said back to the whole island when the weather calls for it.
Mauzy’s looking for a few local sponsors: businesses whose name belongs in the forecast, said in the same voice as everything else, helping keep the language alive while they’re at it. We’ll send you how it works.
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