Geordie - wikipedia Geordie This article is about the people and dialect of Tyneside. For other uses, see Geordie ( disambiguation ). Geordie ( / ˈdʒɔːrdi / ) is both a regional nickname for a person from the larger Tyneside region of North East England and the name of the Northern English dialect spoken by its inhabitants. The term is associated with Tyneside, south eastern parts of Northumberland and northern parts of County Durham. Geordie has been used and still is used by people to refer to anyone from North East England. In many respects, Geordie speech represents a direct continuation and development of the language spoken by the Anglo - Saxon settlers of this region -- initially mercenaries employed by the ancient Brythons to fight the Pictish invaders after the end of Roman rule in Britannia in the 5th century. The Angles, Saxons and Jutes who arrived became -- in the course of time -- ascendant politically and culturally over the native British through subsequent migration from tribal homelands along the North Sea coast of the German Bight. The Anglo - Saxon kingdoms that emerged during the Dark Ages spoke largely mutually intelligible varieties of what is now called Old English, each varying somewhat in phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon. This linguistic conservatism can be seen today to the extent that poems by the Anglo - Saxon scholar the Venerable Bede translate more successfully into Geordie than into present - day Standard English. Thus in Northern England and the Scottish borders area, then dominated by the kingdom of Northumbria, there developed a distinct `` Northumbrian '' Old English dialect. Later Irish migrants ( who, while relatively few in number, influenced Geordie phonology from the early 19th century onwards ) and Scottish admixture influenced the dialect. In more recent years ( 20th century to present ), the North East area has received migrants from the rest of the world as well. The word `` Geordie '' can refer to a supporter of Newcastle United,. The Geordie Schooner glassware was traditionally used to serve Newcastle Brown Ale, and more generally as a serving glass for bottled beer. A similar schooner style glass is often used to serve beer in the United States but this often extends to draft, unlike in the UK where draft beers and lagers tend to be served in a pint or half pint glass. The Geordie dialect and self - identification as a Geordie are primarily associated with those of a working - class background. A 2008 newspaper survey found the Geordie accent the `` most attractive in England ''. Contents 1 Geographical coverage 2 Etymology 3 Phonology 3.1 Consonants 3.2 Vowels 4 Vocabulary 5 In popular culture 6 Notes 7 References 8 External links Geographical coverage When referring to the people, as opposed to the dialect, dictionary definitions of a Geordie typically refer to `` a native or inhabitant of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, or its environs '', an area that encompasses Blyth, Ashington, North Tyneside, Newcastle, South Tyneside and Gateshead. This area has a combined population of around 2,597,000, based on 2011 Census data. The term itself, according to Brockett, originated from all the North East coal mines. The catchment area for the term `` Geordie '' can include Northumberland and County Durham or be confined to an area as small as the city of Newcastle upon Tyne and the metropolitan boroughs of Tyneside. People from Sunderland differentiate themselves as `` Mackems ''. The earliest known recorded use of the term found by an Oxford English Dictionary word hunt occurred only as late as 1988. Just as a Cockney is often colloquially defined as someone `` born within the sound of the Bow bells '', the term Geordie is sometimes defined as `` within spitting distance of the Tyne '' and thus the area more associated with the Geordie accent could be thought of as the watershed and bioregion of the River Tyne, and Geordies as its inhabitants. Geordie is referred to as Tyneside English in academic journals. Etymology A number of rival theories explain how the term came about, though all accept that it derives from a familiar diminutive form of the name George, `` a very common name among the pitmen '' ( coal miners ) in North East England ; indeed, it was once the most popular name for eldest sons in the region. One explanation is that it was established during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715. The Jacobites declared that the natives of Newcastle were staunch supporters of the Hanoverian kings, in particular of George I during the 1715 rebellion. This contrasted with rural Northumberland, which largely supported the Jacobite cause. If true, the term may have derived from the popular anti-Hanoverian song `` Cam Ye O'er Frae France ? '', which calls the first Hanoverian king `` Geordie Whelps '', a play on `` George the Guelph ''. Another explanation for the name is that local miners in the northeast of England used Geordie safety lamps, designed by George Stephenson, known locally as `` Geordie the engine - wright '', in 1815 rather than the competing Davy lamps, designed by Humphry Davy, used in other mining communities. Using the chronological order of two John Trotter Brockett books, Geordie was given to North East pitmen ; later he acknowledges that the pitmen also christened their Stephenson lamp Geordie. Alternatively ; Geordie could also have been a derivative or continuation of the North Sea Germanic name Jordanes ; which in - turn itself also derives from an Old Norse root word - jord ( `` land, earth '' ) and possibly may have been brought over to the Eastern coast of Britain by Germanic or Nordic tribes ; during Migration Period. Moreover, Roman bureaucrat and historian Jordanes bore this name ; and consequently was believed to be a Romanised German author of Gothic background. Further supporting this hypotheses is that the Geordie dialect of English still retains the accent as well as many ancient words of Old English and Norse origin ; which are usually not found in the other spoken regional dialects of Modern English. Linguist Katie Wales also dates the term earlier than does the current Oxford English Dictionary ; she observes that Geordy ( or Geordie ) was a common name given to coal mine pitmen in ballads and songs of the region, noting that such usage turns up as early as 1793. It occurs in the titles of two songs by songwriter Joe Wilson ( 1841 -- 1875 ) : `` Geordy, Haud the Bairn '' and `` Keep your Feet Still, Geordie ''. Citing such examples as the song `` Geordy Black '', written by Rowland Harrison of Gateshead, she contends that, as a consequence of popular culture, the miner and the keelman had become icons of the region in the 19th century, and `` Geordie '' was a label that `` affectionately and proudly reflected this, '' replacing the earlier ballad emblem, the figure of Bob Crankie. In the English Dialect Dictionary of 1900, Joseph Wright gave the definition A man from Tyneside ; a miner ; a north - country vessel, quoting two sources from Northumberland, one from East Durham and one from Australia. The source from Durham stated, `` In South Tyneside even, this name was applied to the Lower Tyneside men. '' Newcastle publisher Frank Graham 's Geordie Dictionary states : The origin of the word Geordie has been a matter of much discussion and controversy. All the explanations are fanciful and not a single piece of genuine evidence has ever been produced. In Graham 's many years of research, the earliest record he found of the term 's use was in 1823 by local comedian Billy Purvis. Purvis had set up a booth at the Newcastle Races on the Town Moor. In an angry tirade against a rival showman, who had hired a young pitman called Tom Johnson to dress as a clown, Billy cried out to the clown : Ah man, wee but a feul wad hae sold off his furnitor and left his wife. Noo, yor a fair doon reet feul, not an artificial feul like Billy Purvis ! Thous a real Geordie ! gan man an hide thysel ! gan an ' get thy picks agyen. Thou may de for the city, but never for the west end o ' wor toon. ( Rough translation : `` Oh man, who but a fool would have sold off his furniture and left his wife ? Now, you 're a fair downright fool, not an artificial fool like Billy Purvis ! You 're a real Geordie ! Go on, man, and hide yourself ! Go on and get your picks ( axes ) again. You may do for the city, but never for the west end of our town ! '' ) Graham is backed up historically by John Camden Hotten, who wrote in 1869 : `` Geordie, general term in Northumberland and Durham for a pitman, or coal - miner. Origin not known ; the term has been in use more than a century. '' Using Hotten as a chronological reference, Geordie has been documented for at least 249 years as a term related to Northumberland and County Durham. Bad - weather Geordy was a name applied to cockle sellers : As the season at which cockles are in greatest demand is generally the most stormy in the year -- September to March -- the sailors ' wives at the seaport towns of Northumberland and Durham consider the cry of the cockle man as the harbinger of bad weather, and the sailor, when he hears the cry of ' cockles alive, ' in a dark wintry night, concludes that a storm is at hand, and breathes a prayer, backwards, for the soul of Bad - Weather - Geordy. -- S. Oliver, Rambles in Northumberland, 1835 Travel writer Scott Dobson used the term `` Geordieland '' in a 1973 guidebook to refer collectively to Northumberland and Durham. Phonology This section contains IPA phonetic symbols. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help : IPA. The phonemic notation used in this article is based on the set of symbols used by Watt & Allen ( 2003 ). Other scholars may use different transcriptions. Consonants Geordie consonants generally follow those of Received Pronunciation, with these unique characteristics as follows : / ɪŋ / appearing in an unstressed final syllable of a word ( such as in reading ) is pronounced as ( ən ) ( thus, reading is ( ˈɹiːdən ) ). Geordie is characterised by a unique type of glottal stops. / p, t, k / can all be glottalised in Geordie, both at the end of a syllable and sometimes before a weak vowel. T - glottalisation, in which / t / is realised by ( ʔ ) before a syllabic nasal ( e.g., button as ( ˈbʊʔn̩ ) ), in absolute final position ( get as ( ɡɛʔ ) ), and whenever the / t / is intervocalic so long as the latter vowel is not stressed ( pity as ( ˈpɪʔi ) ). Glottaling in Geordie is often perceived as a full glottal stop ( ʔ ) but it is in fact more often realised as ' pre-glottalisation ', which is ' an occlusion at the appropriate place of articulation and ' glottalisation ', usually manifested as a short period of laryngealised voice before and / or after and often also during the stop gap '. This type of glottal is unique to Tyneside English Other voiceless stops, / p, k /, are glottally reinforced in medial position, and preaspirated in final position. The dialect is non-rhotic, like most British dialects, most commonly as an alveolar approximant ( ɹ ), although a labiodental realisation ( ʋ ) is also growing for younger females ( this is also possible by older males, albeit rarer ). Traditionally, intrusive R was not present, instead glottalising between boundaries, however is present in newer varieties. Yod - coalescence in both stressed and unstressed syllables ( so that dew becomes ( dʒuː ) ). / l / is traditionally clear in all contexts, meaning the velarised allophone is absent. However, modern accents may periodically use ( ɫ ) in syllable final positions, sometimes it may even be vocalised ( as in bottle ( ˈbɒʔʊ ) ). Vowels Monophthongs of Geordie ( from Watt & Allen ( 2003 : 268 ) ). Some of these values may not be representative of all speakers. Monophthongs of Geordie Front Central Back unrounded rounded short long short long Close ɪ iː ʊ uː Close - mid eː øː ə oː Open - mid ɛ ɛː ɔː Open ( aː ) ɒ ɒː Length For some speakers, vowel length alternates with vowel quality in a very similar way to the Scottish vowel length rule. Vowel length is phonemic for many speakers of Geordie and there is often no other phonetic difference between / ɛ / and / ɛː / on one hand and / ɒ / and / ɒː / on the other. If traditional dialect forms are considered, / a / also has a phonemic long counterpart ( / aː / ), but they contrast only before voiceless consonants. There are minimal pairs such as tack / tak / vs. talk / taːk / ( normal Geordie pronunciation : / tɔːk / ). If they are disregarded, this ( aː ) is best regarded as a phonetic realisation of / ɔː / in certain words ( roughly, those spelt with a ). It occurs only in broad Geordie. Another ( aː ) appears as an allophone of / a / before final voiced consonants in words such as lad ( laːd ). Phonetic quality and phonemic incidence / iː, uː / are typically somewhat closer than in other varieties ; / uː / is also less prone to fronting than in other varieties of BrE and its quality is rather close to the cardinal ( u ). However, younger women tend to use a central ( ʉː ) instead. / iː, uː / are monophthongs ( iː, uː ~ ʉː ) only in morphologically closed syllables. In morphologically open syllables, they are realised as closing diphthongs ( ei, ɵʊ ). This creates minimal pairs such as freeze ( fɹiːz ) vs. frees ( fɹeiz ) and bruise ( bɹuːz ~ bɹʉːz ) vs. brews ( bɹɵʊz ). For simplicity, the monophthongal allophone of / uː / is transcribed with ( uː ) throughout the article. The HAPPY vowel is tense ( i ) and is best analysed as belonging to the / iː / phoneme. As other Northern English varieties, Geordie lacks the FOOT - STRUT split, so that words like cut, up and luck have the same / ʊ / phoneme as put, sugar and butcher. The typical phonetic realisation is unrounded ( ɤ ), but it may be hypercorrected to ( ə ) among middle - class ( especially female ) speakers. The long close - mid vowels / eː, oː / may be realised as monophthongs ( eː, oː ) or as opening diphthongs ( ɪə, ʊə ). Alternatively, / eː / can be a closing diphthong ( eɪ ) and / oː / can be centralised to ( ɵː ). The opening diphthongs are recessive, as younger speakers reject them in favour of the monophthongal ( eː, oː ~ ɵː ). Other, now archaic, realisations of / oː / include ( aː ) in snow ( snaː ) and ( aʊ ) in soldiers ( ˈsaʊldʒɐz ). Geordie does not always adhere to the same distributional patters of vowels found in Received Pronunciation or even the neighbouring accents. Examples of that include the words no and stone, which may be pronounced ( niː ) and ( stɪən ), so with vowels that are best analysed as belonging to the / iː / and / eː / phonemes. Many female speakers merge / oː / with / ɔː /, but the exact phonetic quality of the merged vowel is uncertain. / øː / may be phonetically ( øː ) or a higher, unrounded vowel ( ɪː ). An RP - like vowel ( ɜ̝ː ) is also possible. In broad Geordie, / øː / merges with / ɔː / to ( ɔː ) under the influence of a uvular ( ʁ ) that once followed it ( when Geordie was still a rhotic dialect ). The fact that the original / ɔː / vowel is never hypercorrected to ( øː ) or ( ɜ̝ː ) suggests that either this merger was never categorical, or that speakers are unusually successful in sorting those vowels out again. The schwa / ə / is often rather open ( ( ɐ ) ). It also tends to be longer in duration than the preceding stressed vowel, even if that vowel is phonologically long. Therefore, words such as water and meter are pronounced ( ˈwɔd̰ɐː ) and ( ˈmid̰ɐː ). This feature is shared with the very conservative ( Upper Crust ) variety of Received Pronunciation. Words such as voices and ended have / ə / in the second syllable ( so / ˈvoesəz, ˈɛndəd / ), rather than the / ɪ / of RP. That does not mean that Geordie has undergone the weak vowel merger because / ɪ / can still be found in some unstressed syllables in place of the more usual / ə /. An example of that is the second syllable of seven / ˈsɛvɪn /, but it can also be pronounced with a simple schwa / ə / instead. Certain weak forms also have / ɪ / instead of / ə / ; these include at / ɪt /, of / ɪv /, as / ɪz /, can / kɪn / and us / ɪz /. As in other Northern English dialects, the BATH vowel is short / a / in Geordie. There are very few exceptions to this rule ; for instance, master, plaster and sometimes also disaster are pronounced with / ɒː /. Some speakers unround / ɒː / to ( ɑː ). Regardless of the rounding, the difference in backness between / ɒː / and / a / is very pronounced, a feature which Geordie shares with RP and some northern cities such as Stoke - on - Trent and Derby, but not with the accents of the middle north. Part 1 of Geordie diphthongs ( from Watt & Allen ( 2003 : 268 ) ) Part 2 of Geordie diphthongs ( from Watt & Allen ( 2003 : 268 ) ). / æu / has a considerable phonetic variation. Diphthongs of Geordie Endpoint Front Central Back Start point Front iɐ æu Central ai Back oe uɐ As the transcription indicates, the second elements of / iɐ, uɐ / are commonly as open as the typical Geordie realisation of / ə / ( ( ɐ ) ). The first element of / æu / is phonetically ( ä ) or ( ɛ ) or an intermediate ( æ ). Traditionally, this vowel was a monophthong ( uː ) and this pronunciation can still be heard, as can a narrower diphthong ( əu ). / ai / is phonetically ( äi ), but the Scottish vowel length rule applied by some speakers of Geordie creates an additional allophone ( ɛi ) that has a shorter, higher and more front onset than the main allophone ( äi ). ( ɛi ) is used in words such as knife ( nɛif ), whereas ( äi ) is used in e.g. knives ( näivz ). For simplicity, both of them are written ( ai ) in this article. Vocabulary For a list of words relating to the Geordie dialect, see the Geordie English category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Geordie dialect shares similarities with other Northern English dialects, as well as with the Scots language. In her column for the South Shields Gazette, Dorothy Samuelson - Sandvid attests many samples of Geordie language usage, such as the nouns bairn ( `` child '' ) and clarts ( `` mud '' ) ; the adjectives canny ( `` pleasant '' ) and clag ( `` sticky '' ) ; and the imperative verb phrase howay ( `` hurry up ! '' ; `` come on ! '' ) Howay is broadly comparable to the invocation `` Come on ! '' or the French `` Allez - y ! '' ( `` Go on ! '' ). Examples of common use include Howay man !, meaning `` come on '' or `` hurry up '', Howay the lads ! as a term of encouragement for a sports team for example ( the players ' tunnel at St James ' Park has this phrase just above the entrance to the pitch ), or Ho'way ! ? ( with stress on the second syllable ) expressing incredulity or disbelief. The literal opposite of this phrase is haddaway ( `` go away '' ) ; although not as common as howay, it is perhaps most commonly used 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. ' ). Another word, divvie or divvy ( `` idiot '' ), seems to come from the Co-op dividend, or from the two Davy lamps ( the more explosive Scotch Davy used in 1850, commission disapproved of its use in 1886 ( inventor not known, nicknamed Scotch Davy probably given by miners after the Davy lamp was made perhaps by north east miners who used the Stephenson Lamp ), and the later better designed Davy designed by Humphry Davy also called the Divvy. ) As in a north east miner saying ' Marra, ye keep way from me if ye usin a divvy. ' It seems the word divvie then translated to daft lad / lass. Perhaps coming from the fact one would be seen as foolish going down a mine with a Scotch Divvy when there are safer lamps available, like the Geordie, or the Davy. The Geordie word netty, meaning a toilet and place of need and necessity for relief or bathroom, has an uncertain origin, though some have theorised that it may come from slang used by Roman soldiers on Hadrian 's Wall, which may have later become gabinetti in the Romanic Italian language ( such as in the Westoe Netty, the subject of a famous painting from Bob Olley ). However, gabbinetto is the Modern Italian diminutive of gabbia, which actually derives from the Latin cavea ( `` hollow '', `` cavity '', `` enclosure '' ), the root of the loanwords that became the Modern English cave, cage, and gaol. Thus, another explanation would be that it comes from a Modern Romanic Italian form of the word gabinetti, though only a relatively small number of Italians have migrated to the North of England, mostly during the 19th century. Some etymologists connect the word netty to the Modern English word needy. John Trotter Brockett, writing in 1829 in his A glossary of north country words..., claims that the etymon of netty ( and its related form neddy ) is the Modern English needy and need. Bill Griffiths, in A Dictionary of North East Dialect, points to the earlier form, the Old English níd ; he writes : `` MS locates a possible early ex. `` Robert Hovyngham sall make... at the other end of his house a knyttyng '' York 1419, in which case the root could be OE níd ' necessary ' ``. Another related word, nessy is thought ( by Griffiths ) to derive from the Modern English `` necessary ''. A poem called `` Yam '' narrated by author Douglas Kew, demonstrates the usage of a number of Geordie words. Vocabulary usage aa / aye / ai, yes aall, all aalwiz, always aboot, about alang, along alreet, alright an, and baccy, tobacco bairn, child cannit, can not canny, pleasant childhud, childhood clag, sticky clarts, mud dee, do dinnor, dinner divv n't, do n't divvy, idiot doilum, idiot Frida, Friday fud, food gan hyem, go home gan on, go on gan, go ga n't, gone to geet, very, really guzzlin, eating haad, hold ( e.g. keep a haad is ' keep a hold ' and had yer gob becomes ' keep quiet '. ) haadaway, get away, ( disbelief ) heor, hear hinny, honey ( a term of endearment ) hoose, house hooswife, Housewife hord, heard howay, hurry up, come on hoy, to throw hyem - myed, home made ivry, every lang, long larns, learns larnt, taught ma / mar / mam, mother mesel, myself Monda, Monday neebody, nobody neet, night noo, now nooadays, nowadays nowt, nothing oot, out owt, anything pianna, piano reelise, realise reet, right roond, around or round smaall, small stotty - cyek, stotty cake ( bread ) summack or summit, something Sunda, Sunday taak, talk thor 's, there 's Thorsda ', Thursday waarms, warms watt, what wawd, word wesh, wash wheor, where wor, our worsel 's, ourselves y'kin, you can In popular culture Singer Cheryl Tweedy is a famous Geordie speaker. The Geordie dialect has featured prominently in the British media, as television presenters such as Ant & Dec ( who first found fame in the Newcastle - set children 's drama Byker Grove ) are now happy to use their natural accents on air. Brendan Foster and Sid Waddell have both worked as television sports commentators. Cheryl Tweedy, a former member of Girls Aloud and judge on The X Factor, has a Geordie accent, she says that she 's `` proud to be Geordie ! '' as does Joe McElderry the winner of the sixth series of The X Factor. In May 2011, while named Cheryl Cole, she was let go from the American version of The X Factor because its `` producers feared the American audience would not understand her Geordie accent. '' During May 2011, taping of Britain 's Got Talent, Declan Donnelly ( of Ant & Dec ) made an apparent attempt to stand up for Cole by asking co-producer and judge Simon Cowell on the show, `` Can you understand my accent ? ''. AC / DC vocalist Brian Johnson has a strong Geordie accent. Geordie song - related topics Singers Songwriters Songbooks Characters, events and places See also : Geordie The musicians Brian Johnson and Sting are Geordies ( though Sting has lost much of his Geordie accent and speaks in a standard English accent ). The song `` Why Aye Man '' is also a popular Geordie song by Geordie Mark Knopfler. Jade Thirlwall and Perrie Edwards from girl group Little Mix are both from South Shields, near Newcastle and have Geordie accents, Jade 's sometimes being very strong. The dialect was also popularized by the comic magazine Viz, where the dialect is often conveyed phonetically by unusual spellings within the comic strips. Viz magazine was founded on Tyneside by two locals, Chris Donald and his brother Simon. The Steve Coogan - helmed BBC comedy I 'm Alan Partridge featured a Geordie named Michael ( Simon Greenall ) as the primary supporting character and de facto best friend of the eponymous hero, despite Partridge 's referring to Michael at one point as ' just the Work Geordie ' and having great difficulty understanding what he says. The movie Goal !, which stars Kuno Becker and Alessandro Nivola ( and also sees a cameo of Brian Johnson ) prominently exposes the Newcastle football club, as well as exposing the Geordies and their dialect. Mike Neville presenter of the BBC local news programme Look North, in the 1960s and 1970s, not only incorporated Geordie into the show, albeit usually in comedy pieces pointing up the gulf between ordinary Geordies and officials speaking Standard English, but were responsible for a series of recordings, beginning with Larn Yersel ' Geordie which attempted, not always seriously, to bring the Geordie dialect to the rest of England. In the lyrics of the song `` Sailing to Philadelphia '' by Mark Knopfler, Jeremiah Dixon, surveyor of the Mason - Dixon line, describes himself as a `` Geordie boy ''. Knopfler also includes a `` Geordie '' reference in the song `` 5 : 15 am '', from the album Shangri - La : `` the bandit man / came up the great north road / up to geordieland / to mine the motherlode. '' In an earlier live album and video, Alchemy : Dire Straits Live, the band are seen in a pub -- on the wall hangs a scoreboard for darts featuring `` Geordies '' vs. `` All Others. '' The Jocks and the Geordies was a Dandy comic strip running from 1975 to the early 1990s. Dorfy, real name Dorothy Samuelson - Sandvid, was a noted Geordie dialect writer who once wrote for the South Shields Gazette. Auf Wiedersehen, Pet was a popular fictional British comedy - drama series about three Geordies ( Dennis, Oz and Neville ) leaving England to go and find work in Germany during the heights of unemployment in Thatcher 's Britain. Finding work on a building site in Düsseldorf, they lived there on - site in a basic wooden hut ( not dissimilar from ones seen in a WWII - era POW camp ) as part of a group of seven British migrant construction workers : the other four were Wayne from London, Bomber from somewhere in the West Country, Barry from the West Midlands, and Moxey from Liverpool. The three Geordie characters were supposed to be from Birtley Co. Durham ( Dennis, played by Tim Healy ), Gateshead ( Oz, played by Jimmy Nail ), and North Shields ( Neville, played by Kevin Whately ) and all three actors who played them were Geordies themselves. In 1974, Alan Price 's `` Jarrow Song '' reached number one in the old RNI International Service, and number 4 in the UK charts, which brought to the attention once again of the Jarrow Crusade. The character Detective Inspector Robert `` Robbie '' Lewis ( formerly Detective Sergeant ) in the long - running ITV series Inspector Morse is a self - described Geordie -- although not a `` professional '' one. His speech variety serves as a foil to Morse 's pedantry and RP. Comedian Sarah Millican is also a Geordie. The Hairy Bikers are a pair of television chefs, consisting of Geordie Simon King and Lancastrian Dave Myers. The duo 's lifestyle TV show The Hairy Bikers ' Cookbook is a mixture of cookery and travelogue. The character `` Geordie Georgie '', as portrayed by Catherine Tate in her eponymous TV show, is a Geordie, complete with a thick affected accent, and is portrayed regularly taking part in ( mostly ridiculously ambitious ) sponsored events for a North East - based charity -- the charity in question usually has a website with an outrageous domain name, for instance, the site for the charity she supports for battered husbands is `` www.chinnedbythemissus.co.uk ''. The sketches usually conclude with her remonstrating her co-worker Martin, sometimes by violent means, for his apparent non-support of her charitable crusades. The MTV programme Geordie Shore, a spin - off of Jersey Shore, is set in Newcastle and features several Geordie speaking cast members. The Richard Adams novel The Plague Dogs features a fox who speaks `` Northumbrian '' Geordie, with a pronunciation guide and glossary. Scott Dobson provided assistance on the dialect. Actor Robson Green is a Geordie. Standup comic Ross Noble, a Newcastle native, has been known to make jokes about being Geordie. Capitalising on pride in speaking Geordie, a number of objects are sold that highlight Geordie speech and culture, such as a `` Borth Sortificat for a genuine Geordie '', coffee mugs, etc. Charlie Hunnam, who hails from Newcastle, refers to the swagger he walks with in Pacific Rim as a `` Geordie walk ''. Episode 8.13 `` And Justice for All '' of the ABC program Castle included a blue collar character who was a native Geordie speaker and student of English as a second language ; this was somewhat humorous since, technically, speakers of this dialect already speak English. In the BBC Radio drama series The Archers, the character Ruth Archer hails from Prudhoe, Northumberland and speaks with a Geordie accent, in contrast to the various Midland and other more southerly accents on the show, which is set in a fictional county in the English Midlands. 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Thescotsman.scotsman.com. Retrieved 2013 - 06 - 15. Jump up ^ `` geordie -- Definitions from Dictionary.com ''. Dictionary.com. Retrieved 27 October 2014. Jump up ^ `` Jarrow Song ''. allyrics.net. Retrieved 7 October 2008. Jump up ^ `` Blaydon Races ''. Archived from the original on 6 November 2007. Retrieved 29 September 2007. ^ Jump up to : Brockett, John Trotter ( 1829 ). A Glossary of North Country Words in Use with Their Etymology and Affinity to Other Languages, and Occasional Notices of Local Customs and Popular Superstitions. E. Charnley. p. 131. GEORDIE, George - a very common name among the pitmen. `` How ! Geordie man ! how is 't '' ^ Jump up to : Dobson, Scott ( 1973 ). A Light Hearted Guide to Geordieland. Graham. ISBN 978 - 0 - 902833 - 89 - 0. Plus Geordieland means Northumberland and Durham ^ Jump up to : Camden Hotten, John ( 2004 ) ( 1869 ). The Slang Dictionary : Or Vulgar Words, Street Phrases and Fast Expressions of High and Low Society ( reprint ed. ). p. 142. Retrieved 2007 - 10 - 11. Geordie, general term in Northumberland and Durham for a pitman, or coal - miner. Origin not known ; the term has been in use more than a century Jump up ^ `` New Entry for OED Online : Mackem, n. ( Draft Entry Jan. 2006 ) ''. OED.com. 11 January 2006. pp. `` OED News : BBC Balderdash and Piffle ( Series One ) '' section. Archived from the original on 19 April 2009. Retrieved 31 July 2011. Jump up ^ `` The Mackem Wordhunt ! ''. BBC News. 21 June 2005. pp. `` Wear > Voices 2005 '' section. Jump up ^ `` Geordie Dialect -- BBC ''. Retrieved 27 October 2014. Jump up ^ Keuchler ( 2010 ) Jump up ^ Simmelbauer ( 2000 : 27 ) Jump up ^ Watt ( 2000 : 69 -- 101 ) Jump up ^ Watt & Allen ( 2003 : 267 -- 271 ) Jump up ^ `` AskOxford.com -- from the given name George ''. Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 1 September 2007. ^ Jump up to : Brockett, John Trotter ( 1846 ). A Glossary of North Country Words ( revised ed. ). p. 187. GEORDIE, George -- a very common name among the pitmen. ' How ! Geordie man ! How is 't ' The Pitmen have given the name of Geordie to Mr George Stephenson 's lamp in contra - distinction of the Davy, or Sir Humphry Davy 's Lamp. Jump up ^ Recorded by the folk group Steeleye Span on their album Parcel of Rogues, 1973. Jump up ^ Smiles, Samuel ( 1862 ). `` chapter 8 ''. The lives of the engineers. III. ^ Jump up to : Smiles, Samuel ( 1859 ). The Life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer. p. 120. As to the value of the invention of the safety lamp, there could be no doubt ; and the colliery owners of Durham and Northumberland, to testify their sense of its importance, determined to present a testimonial to its inventor. Jump up ^ Katie Wales ( 2006 ). Northern English : A Cultural and Social History. Cambridge University Press. pp. 134 -- 136. ISBN 978 - 0 - 521 - 86107 - 6. Jump up ^ Wright, Joseph ( 1900 ). English Dialect Dictionary Volume 2 : D-G. London : Henry Frowde. p. 597. Jump up ^ Wells ( 1982 ), p. 374. ^ Jump up to : Watt & Allen ( 2003 ), p. 268. Jump up ^ Docherty & Foulkes ( 2005 ). Hardcastle & Mackenzie Beck, ed. Glottal variants of ( t ) in the Tyneside variety of English : an acoustic profiling study. A Figure of Speech -- a Festschrift for John Laver. London : Lawrence Erlbaum. pp. 173 -- 199. ^ Jump up to : Watt & Allen ( 2003 ), p. 269. ^ Jump up to : Wells ( 1982 ), pp. 360, 375. ^ Jump up to : Wells ( 1982 ), p. 375. Jump up ^ Wells ( 1982 ), pp. 362, 376. Jump up ^ Beal ( 2004 ), pp. 121 -- 122. Jump up ^ Beal ( 2004 ), pp. 123 -- 124. ^ Jump up to : Beal ( 2004 ), p. 126. Jump up ^ Wells ( 1982 ), p. 283. ^ Jump up to : Wells ( 1982 ), p. 376. Jump up ^ Beal ( 2004 ), pp. 122 -- 123. Jump up ^ Wells ( 1982 ), pp. 375 -- 376. ^ Jump up to : `` Dorfy looking fondly back on her youth ''. South Shields Gazette. 29 July 2009. Retrieved 13 May 2012. Aa wuz a bairn. ^ Jump up to : `` Here 's a word from Dorfy ''. South Shields Gazette. 17 March 2009. Retrieved 13 May 2012. Wor Geordie taalk is hyemly taalk ; an wawds like ' clag ' and ' clarts ' ^ Jump up to : `` Here 's a word from Dorfy ''. South Shields Gazette. 17 March 2009. Retrieved 13 May 2012. Is canny, friendly, hyemly wawds that waarms aall Geordie hearts. ^ Jump up to : `` Here 's a word from Dorfy ''. South Shields Gazette. 17 March 2009. Retrieved 13 May 2012. wawds y 've nigh forgot -- `` '' Howay ! `` '' `` '' Gan on ! `` '' ^ Jump up to : `` Dorphy dialog ''. Archived from the original on 13 April 2003. Retrieved 4 November 2007. Jump up ^ Colls, Robert ; Lancaster, Bill ; Bryne, David ; Carr, Barry ; Hadaway, Tom ; Knox, Elaine ; Plater, Alan ; Taylor, Harvey ; Williamson ; Younger, Paul ( 2005 ). Geordies. Northumbria University Press. p. 90. ISBN 978 - 1 - 904794 - 12 - 7. Hadaway an ' shite ; ' Cursing like sleet blackening the buds, raging at the monk of Jarrow scribbling his morality and judgement into a book. ' Jump up ^ IMS : Customer Satisfaction : BIP2005 ( Integrated Management Systems ). BSI Standards. 2003. p. 10. ISBN 978 - 0 - 580 - 41426 - 8. An early example, which may be remembered by older readers was the Co-op dividend or ' divvie '. On paying their bill, shoppers would quote a number recorded... Jump up ^ Henderson, Clarks. `` NEIMME : Lamps -- No. 14. SCOTCH DAVY LAMP ''. Retrieved 2 December 2007. CONSTRUCTION. Gauzes. Cylindrical, 2 ins diameter. 41 / 2 '' high with conical top, a double gauze 1 ins. in depth at the peak. 24 mesh iron. Light. Candle. Jump up ^ Henderson, Clarks. `` NEIMME : Lamps -- No. 16. STEPHENSON ( GEORDIE ) LAMP ''. Retrieved 2 December 2007. Jump up ^ Henderson, Clarks. `` NEIMME : Lamps -- No. 1 -- DAVY LAMP ''. Retrieved 2 December 2007. ^ Jump up to : Graham, Frank ( November 1986 ). The Geordie Netty : A Short History and Guide. Butler Publishing ; New Ed edition. ISBN 978 - 0 - 946928 - 08 - 8. ^ Jump up to : Griffiths, Bill ( 1 December 2005 ). A Dictionary of North East Dialect. Northumbria University Press. p. 122. ISBN 978 - 1 - 904794 - 16 - 5. Netty outside toilet, Ex. JG Annfield Plain 1930s. `` nessy or netty '' Newbiggin - in - Teesdale C20 / mid ; `` outside netties '' Dobson Tyne 1972 ; ' lavatory ' Graham Geordie 1979. EDD distribution to 1900 : N 'd. NE 2001 : in circulation. ? C18 nessy from necessary ; ? Ital. cabinette ; Raine MS locates a possible early ex. `` Robert Hovyngham sall make... at the other end of hys house knyttyng '' York 1419, in which case root could be OE nid ' necessity '. Plus `` to go to the Necessary '' ( public toilet ) Errington p. 67 Newcastle re 1800s : `` lav '' Northumbrian III C20 / 2 re Crawcrook ; `` oot back '' G'head 2001 Q ; `` larty -- toilet, a children 's word, the school larties ' '' MM S. Shields C20 / 2 lavatory ^ Jump up to : Trotter Brockett, John ( 1829 ). A glossary of north country words, in use. From an original manuscript, with additions. Oxford University. p. 214. NEDDY, NETTY, a certain place that will not bear a written explanation ; but which is depleted to the very life in a tail - piece in the first edition of Bewick 's Land Birds, p. 285. In the second edition a bar is placed against the offending part of this broad display of native humour. Etymon needy, a place of need or necessity. ^ Jump up to : `` Netty ''. although some theories suggest it is an abbreviation of Italian gabbinetti, meaning ' toilet ' ^ Jump up to : Wainwright, Martin ( 4 April 2007 ). `` Urinal finds museum home ''. The Guardian. London. Retrieved 8 October 2007. the urinals have linguistic distinction : the Geordie word `` netty '' for lavatory derives from Roman slang on Hadrian 's Wall which became `` gabinetto '' in Italian Jump up ^ `` Famed Geordie netty is museum attraction ''. The Northern Echo. 31 March 2007. Jump up ^ `` Online Etymology Dictionary ''. Etymonline.com. Retrieved 2013 - 06 - 15. Jump up ^ `` Online Etymology Dictionary ''. Etymonline.com. Retrieved 2013 - 06 - 15. Jump up ^ `` Online Etymology Dictionary ''. Etymonline.com. Retrieved 2013 - 06 - 15. Jump up ^ Saunders, Rod. `` Italian Migration to Nineteenth Century Britain : Why and Where, Why ? ''. anglo-italianfhs.org.uk. Retrieved 3 September 2008. They were never in great numbers in the northern cities. For example, the Italian Consul General in Liverpool, in 1891, is quoted as saying that the majority of the 80 -- 100 Italians in the city were organ grinders and street sellers of ice - cream and plaster statues. And that the 500 -- 600 Italians in Manchester included mostly Terrazzo specialists, plasterers and modellers working on the prestigious, new town hall. While in Sheffield 100 -- 150 Italians made cutlery. Jump up ^ `` Online Etymology Dictionary ''. Etymonline.com. Retrieved 2013 - 06 - 15. Jump up ^ `` Online Etymology Dictionary ''. Etymonline.com. Retrieved 2013 - 06 - 15. Jump up ^ YAM narrated by author Douglas Kew. 29 July 2007. Retrieved 2 January 2008. Jump up ^ Kew, Douglas ( 7 February 2001 ). A Traveller 's Tale. Trafford Publishing. ISBN 978 - 1 - 55212 - 552 - 6. Jump up ^ `` A taste of domestic service for Dorfy ''. South Shields Gazette. 1 July 2009. ^ Jump up to : `` A housewife 's lot, according to Dorfy ''. South Shields Gazette. 22 July 2009. Jump up ^ `` A housewife 's lot, according to Dorfy ''. South Shields Gazette. 22 July 2009. Retrieved 13 May 2012. Aa aalwiz... Jump up ^ `` Dorfy looking fondly back on her youth ''. South Shields Gazette. 29 July 2009. Retrieved 13 May 2012. Aa gan alang the streets... Jump up ^ `` Dorfy always found something to say ''. South Shields Gazette. 27 May 2009. Retrieved 13 May 2012. It larnt us alreet... Jump up ^ `` Dorfy loses her bus ticket ''. South Shields Gazette. 30 April 2009. 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Jump up ^ Walters, Mike ( 18 December 2008 ). `` Darts commentary legend Sid Waddell hopes he discovered the next Doctor Who ''. Daily Mirror. ^ Jump up to : `` X-Factor's Cheryl and Joe 's Geordie banter ''. Metro. 4 December 2009. Jump up ^ `` Cheryl Cole in talks with over return to UK X Factor ''. The Daily Telegraph. London. 28 May 2011. Retrieved 28 May 2011. Jump up ^ Robertson, Colin ( 31 May 2011 ). `` Boos and cigarettes for Simon Cowell Cheryl Cole fans taunt X Factor boss ''. The Sun ( United Kingdom ). London. Retrieved 31 May 2011. Jump up ^ `` Ac / Dc 's Brian Johnson To Receive Honorary Doctorate From U.K. 'S Northumbria University ''. Blabbermouth. 12 December 2016. Jump up ^ `` Neville, Mike : George House -- Very Best Of Larn Yersel : Geordie & Geordierama ''. TV Presenter. 13 December 1995. Retrieved 6 November 2007. Jump up ^ `` Sailing To Philadelphia ''. Retrieved 9 November 2007. I Am Jeremiah Dixon ; I Am A Geordie Boy Jump up ^ `` Dorphy, Dorothy Samuelson - Sandvid. Dorphy 's Geordie dialog, South Shields Gazette ''. Archived from the original on 13 April 2003. Retrieved 4 November 2007. Jump up ^ Sandvid, D ( 1970 ). Basinful o ' Geordie : Tyneside Readings. H Hill. ISBN 978 - 0 - 900463 - 11 - 2. Jump up ^ Sandvid, D ( 1988 ). Basinful o ' Geordie : Tyneside Readings. Sandhill P. ISBN 978 - 0 - 946098 - 12 - 5. Jump up ^ Sandvid, D ( 1969 ). Between Ye an ' Me. H Hill. ISBN 978 - 0 - 900463 - 08 - 2. Jump up ^ Sandvid, D ( 1976 ). I Remember. Tree P. ISBN 978 - 0 - 904790 - 02 - 3. Jump up ^ `` THE ORIGINAL AUF WIEDERSEHEN PET HOMEPAGE ''. Retrieved 17 January 2008. Jump up ^ Wayne Winston Norris, Denis Patterson, Leonard `` Oz '' Osborne, Brian `` Bomber '' Busbridge, Barry Taylor, Neville Hope, Albert Arthur Moxey ( 7 October 2002 ). Auf Wiedersehen Pet Box Set -- The Complete Series 1 and 2 ( 1983 ) ( PAL ). Region 2. ASIN B00005UPJX. 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Winter, ISBN 978 - 3825309343 Watt, Dominic ( 2000 ), `` Phonetic parallels between the close -- mid vowels of Tyneside English : Are they internally or externally motivated ? '', Language variation and change, 12 ( 1 ) : 69 -- 101 Watt, Dominic ; Allen, William ( 2003 ), `` Tyneside English '', Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 33 ( 2 ) : 267 -- 271, doi : 10.1017 / S0025100303001397 Wells, John C. ( 1982 ), Accents of English, Volume 2 : The British Isles ( pp. i -- xx, 279 -- 466 ), Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0 - 52128540 - 2 External links Look up Geordie in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Newcastle English ( Geordie ) Sounds Familiar ? -- Listen to examples of Geordie and other regional accents and dialects of the UK on the British Library 's ' Sounds Familiar ' website ' Hover & Hear ' Geordie pronunciations, and compare side by side with other accents from the UK and around the World. The Geordie Directory -- Find out about & learn the Geordie accent How To Get A Geordie Accent, in which actor and voice coach Gareth Jamison explains the essentials of the Geordie accent A Geordie Dialect Song that describes a romantic encounter on the short bus journey from St James ' Park to the General Hospital : Mother of Me Bairns ( lyrics included ) Dialects and accents of Modern English by continent Europe United Kingdom England Varieties by common name Barrovian Black Country Brummie Bristolian Cheshire Cockney `` Mockney '' Cornish Cumbrian East Anglian East Midlands Essex Estuary Geordie Kentish Lancastrian Mackem Mancunian Multicultural London Norfolk Northern Pitmatic Potteries Received Pronunciation Scouse Southern Suffolk Sussex West Country `` Mummerset '' West Midlands Yorkshire Varieties by geographic location East of England Essex Norfolk Suffolk East Midlands North Cheshire Cumbria Barrow Lancashire Manchester Merseyside Northumbria Sunderland Tyneside Pitmatic Yorkshire South Kent London Cockney Multicultural London Sussex Thames Estuary West Country Bristol Cornwall Dorset West Midlands Black Country Birmingham Stoke - on - Trent Northern Ireland Mid Ulster Ulster Scots Scotland Glasgow Highlands Wales Cardiff Gower Port Talbot Ireland Dublin D4 South - West Cork Supraregional Ulster Channel Islands Alderney Guernsey Jersey Elsewhere Gibraltar Isle of Man Malta North and South America United States Varieties by common name African American Appalachian Boston Cajun California Chicago ; Detroit ; Great Lakes Chicano Mid-Atlantic Philadelphia ; South Jersey Baltimorese General American High Tider Maine Miami Midland Midwestern New England New Mexican New York Old Southern Pacific Northwest Pennsylvania Dutch Pittsburghese Rhode Island Southern Texan Upper Midwestern Western Vermont Yat Yeshivish Yooper Varieties by geographic location Delaware Valley ; Mid-Atlantic Pennsylvania Dutch Philadelphia ; South Jersey Baltimore Midland Midwest Great Lakes ; Inland North Upper Midwest Upper Peninsula of Michigan New England Boston Maine Rhode Island Vermont New York City ; Northeastern New Jersey New York Latino North South Acadiana Appalachia Chesapeake ; Pamlico Miami New Orleans Tangier Texas West California New Mexico Pacific Northwest Western Pennsylvania Canada Aboriginal Atlantic Cape Breton Newfoundland Lunenburg Standard Ottawa Valley Pacific Northwest Quebec Caribbean Bahamas Barbados Dominican Republic Jamaica Puerto Rico Trinidad Elsewhere Bermuda Falkland Islands Guyana Oceania Australia Aboriginal Broad ; Strine General South Australian Torres Strait West Australian Elsewhere Fiji New Zealand Palau Solomon Islands Other continents Africa Cameroon Ghana Kenya Liberia Malawi Namibia Nigeria Sierra Leone South Africa White Cultivated General Broad Cape Flats Black Indian Uganda Asia Bangladesh Brunei Burma or Myanmar Hong Kong India Malaysia Nepal Pakistan Philippines Singapore Sri Lanka Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geordie&oldid=843281900 '' Categories : Culture in Tyne and Wear Languages of the United Kingdom English language in England British regional nicknames People from Tyne and Wear North East England Hidden categories : All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from July 2011 All articles that may contain original research Articles that may contain original research from April 2018 Articles with unsourced quotes Use dmy dates from January 2013 Articles with inconsistent citation formats Talk Contents About Wikipedia Deutsch עברית Nederlands Norsk nynorsk Polski Scots Svenska Türkçe 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 28 May 2018, at 03 : 13. 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