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Saw another poster comment on the phrase 'jar off' recently and had a similar experience a few days ago when I described something as 'rum' to a foreign colleague. She couldn't understand I wasn't referring to a drink!
Got me thinking about words and phrases from our region. Anyone have any? Especially now since the yootman seem insistent on speaking like they're from South London... in Lowestoft.
footers QC - Prosecution Barrister, Hasketon Law Chambers
He/she,s a rum un. Was called "klutsy" by a few old uns when i was a boy, meaning clumsy. Not sure if it is a local saying though. Thas a load of ol squit ba. Gets on my wick, used by my folks a lot back in the day.
I still use these on occasion, it,s a great local dialect, it needs preserving, Suffolk is Gods county after all.
We have no village green, or a shop.
It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub.
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Suffolk/EA words and phrases on 17:59 - Jul 21 with 5468 views
Rum un or a Rum do and jarred off both made it to Essex because they're both phrases I use, my other half is Scottish and sometimes she looks at me like I'm talking another language. My general accent is the orrible eustary English but when I'm around East Anglia visiting customers I always catch myself slipping more of a twang into my speech.
No idea when I began here, was a very long time ago. Previously known as Spirit_of_81. Love cheese, hate the colour of it, this is why it requires some blue in it.
Suffolk/EA words and phrases on 15:21 - Jul 21 by Lord_Lucan
On the drag.
Once in the pub I said this and the bloke I was talking to didn't know what the hell I was on about. I was with DF and we both assumed it was a national term so we text a few people outside of Suffolk and they confirmed they had never heard of it before.
Since spending half of the past year in Norfuk there is a term that they use up here all the time that is new to me and that is to get wrong with someone - fall out
Suffolk/EA words and phrases on 14:15 - Jul 21 by Throbbe
My sister in law, who is about the most cosmopolitan, well travelled person I've met only lapses into dialect at moments of great excitement.
She was trekking with friends in the Andes, and suddenly hissed in a stage whisper "LOOK, A POOMA!". Apparently she is reminded of this on at least a weekly basis.
I occasionally confuse people at work by describing something as 'on the huh'.
I'm like that now. It needs a couple of weeks back in the motherland or something unbelievably exciting (like Scuse scoring) to drag the drawl out of me these days. Worse, if I don't concentrate the occasional welsh twang or phrase pops up
Suffolk/EA words and phrases on 20:11 - Jul 21 by NewcyBlue
I use on the drag up here and do get odd looks
Get wronged up here means to get told off.
I didn't realise until I read this thread that 'On the drag' wasn't common parlance everywhere. I mean, unlike some dialect phrases, it's self-explanatory isn't it?
'On the huh' though is one of my favourite phrases, but I've never expected that to have a wider resonance.
Suffolk/EA words and phrases on 21:47 - Jul 21 by Steve_M
I didn't realise until I read this thread that 'On the drag' wasn't common parlance everywhere. I mean, unlike some dialect phrases, it's self-explanatory isn't it?
'On the huh' though is one of my favourite phrases, but I've never expected that to have a wider resonance.
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I always thought "rum 'un" was a nationwide phrase.
I do call Seb "buh" a fair bit, he can't be a complete Sandancer!
People often comment on how I pronounce Five (Foive), Shower, Water.
Us a funny ol thing, oi was thinkin about this sort a thing this artanoon.
What do yew lot call those bits in the soid of the rood in country lanes where the warta runs into? You know, the bits that wreck your suspension if you drop into them too hard if you get up onto the verge when a car comes towards you!
My old dad and muther called em 'grups' pronounced in the same way you say 'put'. Is that just my family or is it a proppa Suffolk word?
Suffolk/EA words and phrases on 22:48 - Jul 21 by Vic
Us a funny ol thing, oi was thinkin about this sort a thing this artanoon.
What do yew lot call those bits in the soid of the rood in country lanes where the warta runs into? You know, the bits that wreck your suspension if you drop into them too hard if you get up onto the verge when a car comes towards you!
My old dad and muther called em 'grups' pronounced in the same way you say 'put'. Is that just my family or is it a proppa Suffolk word?
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I was going to mention 'Grups' as well.. But thought it was more of a farming thing as my parents used it to talk about holes in the road or in fields when driving..
i.e. 'the wheel got stuck in the groop' or 'watch out for all the groops on the way to peasnhall'
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Suffolk/EA words and phrases on 14:24 - Jul 24 with 5112 views
Suffolk/EA words and phrases on 14:24 - Jul 24 by FenboyBlue
"Goob". I'd never heard the word until I saw the film "The Goob" set in the Fens recently.
What's a goob, Fenboy? I had it down as a pea or bean but think that was an American phrase.
BTW, thanks a lot for all the replies. As someone mentioned earlier in the thread, I think it's so important to keep these local words and phrases alive as long as possible. Language is democratic: we shape it and it shapes us, so sharing it is vital (not to mention interesting!).
footers QC - Prosecution Barrister, Hasketon Law Chambers
Shew as a phantom past tense of show, whilst I understand that it is part of local history, really does sound like you're talking with a bit of a simpleton.....I appreciate this may not be a popular point of view but I felt the need to shew you all how I felt