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Didn’t realise ‘on the drag’ was a Suffolk saying… on 09:31 - Mar 14 by yesjohn99
It’s a nautical term.
In choppy waters/currents, boats used to drop something in the water called a drag. Kept them on course better but slowed them down.
When they got to port, the expression was ‘sorry we’re late, we was on the drag’.
This (which is fascinating) suggests (at 3.38) it comes from drag tide (a strong undercurrent which slows down an incoming boat). Drag tide itself appears to be a Suffolk word as I haven't been able to track it down on the internet..
It also shows that some words (such as huh) go back to Old English.
EDIT: Charlie Haycock helped Ralph Fiennes with his Suffolk accent.
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Didn’t realise ‘on the drag’ was a Suffolk saying… on 17:12 - Mar 14 with 573 views
It's sad that Estuary English is creeping ever north because I don't hear as many or as strong Suffolk accents in Ipswich these days as when I was growing up there: the cut-off those days was probably Colchester.
And going south, Estuary English was alive and kicking in Brighton, when I lived there in my early years.
Interestingly, a workman I employed in West Kent had what sounded to me like a Suffolk accent, even though he was a local. I imagine that might have been the accent in Kent many years ago before Estuary English became the norm there.
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Didn’t realise ‘on the drag’ was a Suffolk saying… on 18:59 - Mar 14 with 512 views
Didn’t realise ‘on the drag’ was a Suffolk saying… on 14:22 - Mar 14 by Sharkey
I thought it was 'bor, not boy. Originally short for neighbour, - people would greet each other e.g. 'mornin', neighbour'.
As I side note, I'd get 'enraged' every time I hear people praising The Detectorists to the hilt, when they didn't seem to have done the slightest bit of work into regional speech patterns and not one character had an East Anglian accent.
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tbf with the Detectorists, it might have been filmed in Suffolk, but it was supposed to more set around Essex.
except Toby Jones didnt get that memo and decided he needed to sound like one of the Wurzels.
as for the Dig, well Ralph bloomin well should sound Suffolk being a local, and whilst his accent got praised, its a shame none of the other cast really bothered to sound anything more than Zummerzet again
just watch Akenfield to hear it done proper like
there was another documentary which I cant remember the name of but was like early 80s American,and went to the Blaxhall Ship, interviewed alot of old buhs about how they spoke.
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Didn’t realise ‘on the drag’ was a Suffolk saying… on 20:47 - Mar 14 with 408 views
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