Author Topic: Does 'rove' only mean 'scab' in Suffolk?  (Read 6896 times)

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Re: Does 'rove' only mean 'scab' in Suffolk?
« Reply #18 on: Sunday 04 August 19 20:46 BST (UK) »
Following on from this, I noticed recently on a Suffolk discussion board, on another site,  a query as to whether "on the huh" (ie crooked or wonky) was a Suffolk saying.  It had never occurred to me that it might be confined to my home county.  I still use the phrase, although I now live in Wales.  So my question is - has  'on the huh' travelled, or do the locals here wonder what on earth I'm talking about?   ;D


'On the huh' is also a Norfolk expression but I've never heard it anywhere else  ;D
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Re: Does 'rove' only mean 'scab' in Suffolk?
« Reply #19 on: Sunday 04 August 19 22:10 BST (UK) »
Thanks Mike and Roopat - that explains why people look askance when I say that.  Not that I will change, I've been using the expression far too long!
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Re: Does 'rove' only mean 'scab' in Suffolk?
« Reply #20 on: Friday 29 December 23 15:37 GMT (UK) »
My family are from the five mile radius of Thorpe Morieux, I only recently discovered that "raav" (with an a sound) wasn't the correct term, growing up in a bilingual family.