peterb
(regular)
09/05/2008 15:06
Re: Coastal fog - what do you call it?

The Concise Oxford gives it as a seafog on the east coast of England or Scotland (I've heard it in Norfolk), and suggest that it comes from the old Norse word for "hoar". It gives hoar as having Germanic roots and meaning grey.


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