Dog Days of Summer
By Faye
@FayeHazel (40230)
United States
August 22, 2019 12:25pm CST
My local college radio station plays a feature called Star Date, which I love. And I listened to an interesting segment on there about the Dog Days of summer.
Are you familiar with this expression?
To me it always seemed to mean the wrapping up of summer.
Apparently it's titled this way because of the star that is prominent at this time.
Here's the segment :
Depending on your viewpoint, the Dog Days of summer are either in full swing or they’re just wrapping up. That’s because there’s no formal definition for the dates of the Dog Days. All we can say for sure is that this period got its name from the brightest
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@FayeHazel (40230)
• United States
26 Aug 19
Nice to know someone else knows the phrase
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@DianneN (254926)
• United States
26 Aug 19
@FayeHazel I've lived long enough to know most of the old phrases. It's the new ones that give me a problem. lol
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@FayeHazel (40230)
• United States
26 Aug 19
@DianneN Oh yes the new phrases give me issues too lol
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@JudyEv (382240)
• Rockingham, Australia
27 Aug 19
@FayeHazel I don't think so although perhaps they're upside down.
I think it is still called the 'dog star' just that I'd forgotten about it. We always used to call Orion's Belt the 'saucepan. The sword was the handle of the pot.
I think it is still called the 'dog star' just that I'd forgotten about it. We always used to call Orion's Belt the 'saucepan. The sword was the handle of the pot.1 person likes this
@FayeHazel (40230)
• United States
27 Aug 19
@JudyEv Oh wait, yeah those are same as here. And here I thought you had all different stars lol. I like Orion's belt, mostly because it and the dipper are the only constellations I can find consistently. I will greatly enjoy seeing the saucepan now :-)
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@FayeHazel (40230)
• United States
26 Aug 19
Oh yeah, different stars for you in Australia huh?
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
22 Aug 19
I am familiar with the term. These are the dog days of the baseball season.
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@FayeHazel (40230)
• United States
26 Aug 19
Ah, so baseball and football are going simultaneous right now? I don't know much about either...
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@Hannihar (130150)
• Israel
26 Aug 19
@FayeHazel
Yes I have heard of Dog Days of Summer before.
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@FayeHazel (40230)
• United States
26 Aug 19
Nice to meet another person who knows the term :-)
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