Geordie

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The byleid o Newcastle is kent as Geordie, an haes a lairge amoont o vocabulary an distinctive wird pronunciations no uised in ither pairts o Ingland. The Geordie byleid haes muckle o its oreegins in the leid spoken by Anglo-Saxon mercenaries, that war employed by the Auncient Breetish fowk tae fecht Pechtish invaders, follaein the Romans leavin Breetain in the 4t century. This leid wis the forebeir o Modren Inglis; but while the byleids o ither Inglis regions haes been muckle chynged by the influences o ither furrin leids—Norman an Norman–French in parteecular —the Geordie byleid hauds tae mony chairactereestics o the auld leid.

[edit] Vocabular

Geordie haes a lairge amoont o vocabular no heard ithergates in Ingland, tho some is shared wi (or seemilar tae) Scots. Wirds still in ordinar uiss the day includes:

(Aw translates are gien in Inglis for tae compear them)

• alreet (/'a:lri:t/ a variation on alright
• cannit 'can not'
• canny for "pleasant" or tae mean 'very'. A body coud therefore be 'canny canny'.
• geet for "very", *muckle an aw (uised mair in Northumberland)
• hyem for "home"
• deeky for "look at"
• kets for "sweets/treats"
• knaa for "to know/know"
• divint for "don't"/
• bairn/grandbairn for "child/grandchild"
• hacky for "dirty"
• gan for "to go/go"
• hoy for "to throw"^[1]
• toon for "Town"
• nettie|bog for "toilet"
• naa for "no"
• ayee|yerr for "yes"
• neb for "nose" (nebby=nosey)
• banter for "chat/gossip"
• clart for "mud" as in "there's clarts on yar boots"
• hadaway for "get away"
• hinny a term o endearment - "Honey"^[2]
• haad for "hold/ ie keep a hadd/ keep a hold/ had yer gob/ keep quiet/ that polite little notice in the parks aboot keepin' yor dog on a lead ye cud hev Keep A-Hadden Yor Dog^[3]
• divvie for "stupid person"
• tab for "cigarette"
• chor "to steal"
• chiv for "knife"
• wor for "our", uised mainly in the context o wor kid, meanin 'friend', yer siblin or literally 'our kid'. Uised mainly tae mean a faimily member.
• nowt for "nothing"^[4]

Howay or Haway is braidly comparable tae the invocation "Come on!" or the French "Allez!" ("Go on!"), "Howay" an "Haway" bein the geordie an 'mackem' derivatives o the same wird, respectively. Ensaumples o common uise include Howay man! or Haway man!, meanin "come on" or "hurry up", Howay the lads! or Haway the lads! as a term o encouragement for a sports team for ensaumple, or Ho'way!? (wi stress on the seecont seellable) expressin incredulity or disbelief.^[5] The literal opposite o this wird is "Haddaway" (gang awa), that isnae as popular as Howay, but haes foond frequent uise in the phrase "Haddaway an' shite" (Tom Hadaway, Figure 5.2 Haddaway an' shite; ’Cursing like sleet blackening the buds, raging at the monk of Jarrow scribbling his morality and judgement into a book.’^[6]).

Divvie or divvy seems tae come frae the Co-op dividend,^[7] or frae the twa Davy lamps (the mair dangerous explosive Scotch Davy^[8] uised in 1850, commission disapproved o its uise in 1886. (inventor isnae kent, an nicknamed Scotch Davy probably gien by miners efter the Davy lamp wis makkit aiblins by north aest miners that uised the Stephenson Lamp^[9][10]), an the later better designed Davy designed by Humphrey Davy cried the Divvy an aw.^[11]) As in a north aest miner sayin ‘Marra, ye keep way from me if ye usin a divvy.' It seems the wird divvie then translated tae daft lad/lass. Aiblins comin frae the fact ye’d be seen as foolish tae gang doun a mine wi a Scotch Divvy whan there are safer lamps oot, like the Geordie, or the Davy.

The geordie wird netty, meanin a toilet^[12] or bathroom cam frae the Roman slang foond on Hadrians Waw that later becam gabinetto in Italian.(Sic like thae airticles aboot the Westoe Netty, the subject o a famous paintin frae Bob Olley^[13][14])

A poem, cried ‘YAM’ narrated by author Douglas Kew, demonstrates the uissage o a lot o Geordie wirds^[15][16]

[edit] See Forby

Cumbrian byleid

• Mackem (spoken in Sunlun an athort Wearside)
• Northumbrian (spoken in Northumberland, similar tae Geordie)
• Pitmatic (spoken in many Durham an Northumberland minin commonities).
• Potteries (spoken in Stoke On Trent)
• Scouse (spoken in Merseyside)
• Yorkshire an Lancashire byleid baith vary athort the coonties, an merge wi ilka ither in the mairch areas.