https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/10/country-diary-an-unlikely-job-for-a-farmer-preserving-a-roman-fort
I love the word class...use it myself (meself)
Quote from: Imperial Dave on Dec 10, 2025, 05:12 PMI love the word class...use it myself (meself)
Were you intending to reference the word "clag" in the article here?
Erm...indeed...
Autocorrect failure :(
While I'm sure I've heard fog described as clag, not sure about mist.
I have always thought of clag as being the heavy clay mud that clings around ones boots and won't let go, not as being mist or fog. Clearly (or unclearly) I have become separated from my Cumbrian roots linguistically.
Clag has always meant the stuff that clings to mountains....a bit if etymology might be in order :)
Quote from: Keraunos on Dec 11, 2025, 03:14 AMI have always thought of clag as being the heavy clay mud that clings around ones boots and won't let go, not as being mist or fog. Clearly (or unclearly) I have become separated from my Cumbrian roots linguistically.
Cumbria was never really a unified area, linguistically or otherwise
The south has a different accent/dialect. The East again is different, and the west and north aren't all that similar either ;)
To me, in the south, clag is more likely to be used for mud than mist of fog
Clag is possibly Scandinavian in origin giving the eventual word clay for one apparently
Although I also like the RAF version clown low aircraft grounded meaning :)
Quote from: Imperial Dave on Dec 11, 2025, 08:07 AMAlthough I also like the RAF version clown low aircraft grounded meaning :)
Or possibly a Krusty layer ? 😁🤡
Quote from: Imperial Dave on Dec 11, 2025, 07:57 AMClag has always meant the stuff that clings to mountains....a bit if etymology might be in order :)
So a mountaineer who has slipped and is clinging to the mountain for dear life is clag? ;)
Quote from: Imperial Dave on Dec 11, 2025, 08:07 AMClag is possibly Scandinavian in origin giving the eventual word clay for one apparently
Must admit this is what I have thought - clag meaning clinging mud being the primary meaning. I'd guess cloy is also related, though I don't think it has a noun form.
Quote from: Erpingham on Dec 11, 2025, 09:10 AMI'd guess cloy is also related, though I don't think it has a noun form.
"Cloy" is a wholly unrelated Romance loan, actually.
Dubiously interesting factlet of the day:
klägg, the Swedish equivalent of "clag", basically means "gunk", but in my student days it was also used to mean a pastry or soft biscuit, especially one sold at the student co-op café.
Quote from: Imperial Dave on Dec 11, 2025, 08:07 AMClag is possibly Scandinavian in origin giving the eventual word clay for one apparently
Although I also like the RAF version cloud low aircraft grounded meaning :)
Quote from: Andreas Johansson on Dec 11, 2025, 09:23 AMDubiously interesting factlet of the day: klägg, the Swedish equivalent of "clag", basically means "gunk", but in my student days it was also used to mean a pastry or soft biscuit, especially one sold at the student co-op café.
Interesting, as my late father (born in N Yorks) always called the malted fruit loaf marketed in the UK as "Soreen" "clag", although from my own experience, "clag" was more typically used in NE England as meaning heavy mud. Not entirely dissimilar either way though ;D .
True....