Geordie Dialect

Geordie Dialect

Reading a thread a mo ago made me think of the sad decline of one of our region's cultural gems, the Geordie dialect ( along with Northumbrian, pitmatic, etc).

Just out of interest, does anyone on this board stil know / use these terms?

Marra - mate

Lop - flea

Lowp - jump

Fettle - health

Howk - pick

Flummoxed - confused

etc

I think it's really sad that the tongue is becoming so homogenous across the UK, and particularly that speech is being so influenced by the US media barrage ( I hear charvers round my way referring to their car bonnet as its "Hood" !).

Anyone?

PS, the Q at the top was not rhetorical and demands a practical answer

Harry

I use howk sometimes, that's it really.

geordies tend to say things such as 'hoo man, lenz a snout wor kid or al chin ya' which in english means 'excuse me, lend me a ciggarette or else il beat you up'

Thanks for coming into my thread and bashing me and most of the other members of this board, who i take it consider themselves geordie

/dismiss

Harry

Better than mine tbf though!

:laugh:

well i really am truly sorry, i didnt mean 2 offend

now go and eat your stottie cake and ur little fishie on a little dishie

Dance til the boats come in!

Okay

I was only semi serious, no offence was taken or meant

Harry

phew. i thought 4 a minute there that ud probably steal a car, ram raid my house, fill me in, steal my telly, petrol bomb my windows, and joyride back 2 the toon in time 2 catch last orders at idols, like wot all u geordies do lmao

:shock:

He would probably just throw you across the Tyne to be fair

wud he really? is he strong like? and how wud that b fair?

The worst one is "EEEEEEEEEEEE, ah diven't kna"

that equals 'why aye man, ahhl knock ya oot' in my book m8

I have to say I agree with you mind Harry, we're definately losing the Geordie dialect. Not sure what a Northumberland dialect is though. I know somebody from Northumberland and she's incredibly posh. In fact, the way she says 'darling' =

Still, we should all start speaking more Geordie. It's being phased out because it's regarded as common.

Me and Jimmy are from Northumberland

infact so is Nass...

I cringe at every one of your posts nevermind your voice recorded.