Geordie

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 bi Anglo-Saxon mercenaries, that war employed bi 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 bi the influences o ither furrin leids—Norman an Norman–French in parteecular —the Geordie byleid hauds tae mony chairactereestics o the auld leid.

### 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)

***' ( a variation on 
***' 'can nae'
***' for "pleasant" or tae mean 'very'. A body coud therefore be 'canny canny'.
***' for "very", ***'  an aw (uised mair in Northumberland)
***' for "home"
***' for "look at"
***' for "sweets/treats"
***' for "to know/know"
***' for "don't"/
**/* for "child/grandchild"
***' for "dirty"
***' for "to go/go"
***' for "to throw"
***' for "Town"
***' for "toilet"
***' for "no"
***' for "yes"
***' for "nose" (nebby=nosey)
***' for "chat/gossip"
***' for "mud" as in "there's clarts on yar boots"
***' for "get away"
***' a term o endearment - "Honey"
***' 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
***' for "stupid person"
***' for "cigarette"
***' "to steal"
***' for "knife"
***' for "our", uised mainly in the context o , meanin 'friend', yer siblin or literally 'our kid'. Uised mainly tae mean a faimily member.
***' for "nothing"

**' or **' is braidly comparable tae the invocation "Come on!" or the [[French leid|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. 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.’).

''Divvie'' or ''divvy'' seems tae come frae the Co-op dividend, or frae the twa Davy lamps (the mair dangerous explosive Scotch Davy uised in 1850, commission disapproved o its uise in 1886. (inventor isnae kent, an nicknamed Scotch Davy probably gien bi miners efter the Davy lamp wis makkit aiblins bi north aest miners that uised the Stephenson Lamp), an the later better designed Davy designed bi [[Humphrey Davy]] cried the Divvy an aw.) 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 **', meanin a toilet or bathroom mebbe cam frae the Italian wird *gabinetto*, tho many Etymologists ween hit is frae the Auld Inglis wird *neid* or the Modren Inglis *needy*.

A poem, cried ‘YAM’ narrated bi author Douglas Kew, demonstrates the uissage o a lot o Geordie wirds

## See Forby
* Mackem (spoken in Sunlun an athort Wearside)
* Northumbrian (spak in Northumberland, seemilar tae Geordie)
* Pitmatic (spak in mony Durham an Northumberland minin commonities).
* Potteries (spoken in Stoke On Trent)
* Scouse (spak in Merseyside)
* Yorkshire an Lancashire byleid baith vary athort the coonties, an merge wi ilka ither in the mairch auries.

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