[6], Academics refer to the Geordie dialect as "Tyneside English". A unique property in Edinburgh is now available to purchase for the price of 3.2 million, and among its highlights are a spectacular conservatory and a separate self-contained annexe. Translate your English to Geordie (& vice versa!) Obviously they're close geographically, but I wonder if there is a distinct difference in terms of phonetics which some of you lovely people would try their best to describe to me. Will accents change? Stop procrastinating with our study reminders. The story of Geordie differs slightly from the rest of the British accents because whilst other accents were heavily influenced by the Saxons, the Geordie accent was largely shaped by the Angles, who hailed from the coastal German region of Schleswig-Holstein and the Danish Peninsula. People from Liverpool are called Scousers or Liverpudlians, and their dialect (which, like Geordie, is very strong and instantly recognisable) is called Scouse. ",[28] which calls the first Hanoverian king "Geordie Whelps", a play on "George the Guelph". This was not the case in the West Midlands and we can see evidence of this in place names, for example we find place names ending in by which is thought to originate from the Danish word for town, such as Thoresby and Derby. It is similar in some ways to Scottish English (compare the Geordie examples with the Scottish ones). 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. For example, words like "now" and "how" are pronounced more like "noigh" and "hoigh" (close to an "oy" sound). Tributes paid to dad-of-two who died while snorkelling on family holiday. Family 'leave empty space at dinner table for Scots man detained in India as part of their hearts is missing. mair for "more" (compare with German "mehr"), man - often used as a generic term of address, as in "Giv uz it heor noo man" or "haway man", mollycoddle - overprotect, "wrap in cotton wool", muckle - similar to "canny", in the sense of meaning "quite". Yes. Cheryl Cole has a Geordie accent (and was fired from a US TV show because the producers thought no one would understand her!). Fig. with a lot of emphasis on the letters A and Y in words. Americans barely even think about dialectal variation here ("Southern" is . alreet or aareet / awreet - a variation on "alright" or "hello" (often used in the phrase "aalreet mate").
