Thanks Roger, It's fun stuff. /jim
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[mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Roger Wesson
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Aha, Geordie! This page gives a brief taster:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/tyne/student/lingo.shtml
If you want to learn more there's a book called 'Larn Yersel Geordie'
which will have you conversing with real Geordies in no time!
It's an interesting dialect actually, lots of very old Anglo-Saxon words
as well as some influence from Welsh (apparently the North-East used to
be populated by Welsh speakers, and certainly the accents are not
dissimilar), and quite a lot from Old Norse. Nightmarish for outsiders
to understand though, that's for sure.
Roger
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