KenMcCulloch
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Loc: Edinburgh, Scotland
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It can be a real curse in Edinburgh. If you live near the shore you can spend a week in cold dark clammy stuff when half a mile up the road is in glorious sunshine
Indeed. I am just back in town after visiting a site in Midlothian, about 10M inland and 200m altitude, it's a warm summer day there and rather chilly here near the sea at an altitude of about 30m.
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Scillypete
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Reged: 11/06/2003
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Loc: Isles of Scilly
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Misty - vis about a mile
thick - vis about half a mile
Thick as a bag - can't see the quay across the harbour
Mizzlin - if its misty and lightly drizzling
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smeaks
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Reged: 31/08/2003
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Loc: tyneside
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jenku
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Reged: 23/02/2004
Posts: 620
Loc: Stockholm, Sweden
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Used to be called a roke (spelling?) in East Yorkshire
This sounds like the most norse word to me as it is called (sjö)rök in Swedish and the Norwegian pronounciation should sound something like "royk". The meaning is essentially (sea)smoke.
Haar isn't something that I can connect to any Scandinavian/Norse word, at least right now...
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Jimi
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I've always thought the word Haar to have a Dutch connection,(suprisingly many Scots words have this origin as there was much interchange between the nations). My grandfather (from Fife originally but resident in Edinburgh) always spoke of the cold east wind haar, associating it with both mist and a cold east wind. The Scots dictionary definition tends to confirm this
"The word is of Dutch origin, coming either from Middle Dutch hare, a biting wind, or Frisian harig, damp"
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LakeSailor
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Reged: 15/02/2005
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Loc: ation : Lake District
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Ah. Found a page from someone in East Yorkshire with mention of sea rokes and pictures.
Here
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Cornishman
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Reged: 29/07/2002
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Loc: Cornwall
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We used to call that mixture of mist and drizzle mizzle
Wasn't that word invented by David Ike?
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Cornishmen do it drekly
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Jimi
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We used to call that mixture of mist and drizzle mizzle
Wasn't that word invented by David Ike?
Possibly, but must have been in one of his a previous lives, again probably of Dutch origin
miz·zle 1 (mzl)
intr.v. miz·zled, miz·zling, miz·zles
To rain in fine, mistlike droplets; drizzle.
n.
A mistlike rain; a drizzle.
[Middle English misellen; probably akin to Dutch dialectal mieselen
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Cornishman
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Loc: Cornwall
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'Haar' is derivative in the Northumberland and Fife dialects from Norse/Dansk roots
According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary the word is "perhaps from Old Norse harr meaning hairy or hoary".
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peterb
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Reged: 16/05/2001
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Loc: Radlett, Herts
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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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