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";s:4:"text";s:6851:"Intriguingly, we can still hear echoes of these ancient dialect boundaries in contemporary spoken English. He has worked on two nationwide surveys of regional speech, the Survey of English Dialects and BBC Voices, and is on the editorial team for the journal English Today. Furthermore, north of the M62 (only in the Northumbrian area, including Scotland) speakers still pronounce words such as low and hole with a vowel sound used by speakers elsewhere in the words law and haul, while words such as fade and way are pronounced with a vowel sound used by speakers further south on the words fared and wear. The North East is well known and loved for the Geordie language and dialect which is sometimes indecipherable to Southern types. Meanwhile the border skirmishes that broke out sporadically during the Middle Ages meant the River Tweed established itself as a significant northern barrier against Scottish influence. Strictly speaking, however, Geordie should only refer to the speech of the city of Newcastle upon Tyne and the surrounding urban area of Tyneside. Later still, the counties of Durham and Northumberland do not feature in the Domesday Book in 1086 as both counties resisted Norman control for some time longer. As the name implies, the Northumbrian dialects occupied an area northwards of a rough line drawn from the River Humber in the East to the River Ribble in the West (corresponding approximately with today’s M62 motorway). There are several theories about the exact origins of the term Geordie, but all agree it derives from the local pet name for George. In 2010/11 he co-curated the British Library exhibition Evolving English: One Language, Many Voices. Locals insist there are significant differences between Geordie and several other local dialects, such as Pitmatic and Mackem. Find out more about the origins of the Geordie dialect of Newcastle upon Tyne and discover how the history of the area shaped the dialect spoken today. Most of us have a vague sense of the accents and dialects spoken in different parts of the UK, such as Cockney or Brummy. To the south, speakers in rural County Durham and North Yorkshire are sometimes affectionately referred to as Farm Yakkers, while Smoggies – the inhabitants of Middlesbrough and the surrounding urban area of Teesside – have their own distinctive dialect, too. The word Geordie refers both to a native of Newcastle upon Tyne and to the speech of the inhabitants of that city. This dialect area therefore also includes Scotland. The North East was settled mainly by the Angles, as was most of central and northern Britain in the centuries following the decline of Roman rule in the early 5th century AD. For many people these different identities are expressed in the way they speak. Other dialect groups that emerged elsewhere in the UK include Mercian, spoken in the Midlands, Wessex in the South and West of England, and Kentish in the far South East. The Geordie word "claes", meaning clothes, for example, is more than "clothes" spoken with an accent It's the actual Anglo Saxon word. His latest publication, Why you need to protect your intellectual property, Geordie voices: dialect in the North East, Geordie dialect: Mark talks about courtship, married life and working as a labourer in the 1960s, Galleries, Reading Rooms, Shop and Catering Opening Times Vary. This is not surprising given that speech in this part of the country is descended from the dialect that emerged approximately 1,500 years ago in the mouths of Anglo-Saxon settlers from continental Europe. As a result, the North East has always maintained a strong sense of cultural identity and resisted the centralising tendencies of both Edinburgh and London. Speakers from the Midlands and the North (Northumbria and Mercia) pronounce words such as glass to rhyme with gas and stood to rhyme with stud, while speakers in the South (Wessex) use a different vowel sound in each case. Geordie Words This small selection of Geordie words, culled from around the Internet and from listening to Geordie friends and celebrities, are more than slang. But have you ever wondered what exactly constitutes a dialect and accent or why they exist at all? The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr: sketches and original artwork, Sean's Red Bike by Petronella Breinburg, illustrated by Errol Lloyd, Unfinished Business: The Fight for Women's Rights, The fight for women’s rights is unfinished business, Get 3 for 2 on all British Library Fiction, Jonnie Robinson is Lead Curator for Spoken English at the British Library. It is sometimes mistakenly used to refer to the speech of the whole of the North East of England. Please consider the environment before printing, All text is © British Library and is available under Creative Commons Attribution Licence except where otherwise stated. Locals insist there are significant differences between Geordie and several other local dialects, such as Pitmatic and Mackem. Many contemporary Geordie dialect words, such as gan (‘go’ – modern German gehen) and bairn (‘child’ - modern Danish barn) can still trace their roots right back to the Angles. Strictly speaking, however, Geordie should only refer to the speech of the city of Newcastle upon Tyne and the surrounding urban area of Tyneside. The text in this article is available under the Creative Commons License. The Angles came from the area around the border between Denmark and Germany and the language they spoke evolved into a number of Old English dialects often grouped together under the term Northumbrian. Subsequent invasions left the North East increasingly linguistically isolated from developments elsewhere in Northumbria. Although only 10 miles apart, the difference between Sunderland and Newcastle upon Tyne is, of course, extremely important locally, not least because of the rivalry between supporters of the two football clubs. Use the links below to hear a series of audio clips demonstrating the typical features associated with one variety of English: the Geordie dialect. It is easy to see why people outside the North East often group these speakers together, as we can identify shared features in the English spoken in the area from the Tees to the border with Scotland. The Vikings, for instance, settled mainly south of the River Tees and therefore had a lasting impact on the development of dialects in Yorkshire, but not further north. Pitmatic is the dialect of the former mining areas in County Durham and around Ashington to the north of Newcastle upon Tyne, while Mackem is used locally to refer to the dialect of the city of Sunderland and the surrounding urban area of Wearside. There are also a number of grammatical constructions and dialect words that remain distinctively ‘northern’, such as lass for ‘girl’ or naught for ‘nothing’. ";s:7:"keyword";s:16:"geordie language";s:5:"links";s:969:"Archeological Museum London, Hotels In Windsor, Ripe Maternity Dress, Richard Hughes Ohio, Brittany Johnson Age, Tynker App, Is Shadwell Safe, Richard Hughes Racing Blog, Monash Pharmacy Ranking 2020, ";s:7:"expired";i:-1;}