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The Geordie dialect shares similarities with other Northern English dialects, as well as with the Scots language (See Rowe 2007, 2009). Dorfy, real name Dorothy Samuelson-Sandvid, was a noted Geordie dialect writer.
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The list of Geordie singers is a list of singers who are Geordies. Geordie is the regional nickname given to people from the Tyneside region of North East England. Geordie is also the name given to the dialect of English that they speak. Geordie singers are singers who are from the Tyneside region of England or singers who speak in the Geordie ...
The traditional dialect has spawned multiple modern varieties, and Northumbrian dialect can also be used to broadly include all of them: Geordie, the most famous dialect spoken in the region, largely spoken in Tyneside, centred in Newcastle and Gateshead [3] [5] Mackem, a dialect spoken in Wearside, centred on Sunderland
Pitmatic – originally 'pitmatical' [2] – is a group of traditional Northern English dialects spoken in rural areas of the Great Northern Coalfield in England.. The feature distinguishing Pitmatic from other Northumbrian dialects, such as Geordie and Mackem, is its basis in the mining jargon used in local collieries.
A 19th century dialect map indicating the range of the Northumbrian burr within Northumberland and Durham. The Northumbrian burr is the distinctive uvular pronunciation of R in the traditional dialects of Northumberland, Tyneside ('Geordie'), and northern County Durham, now remaining only among speakers of rural Northumberland, excluding Tyne and Wear.
The Tyne Songster (full title – "The Tyne Songster – A Choice Selection of Songs in the Newcastle Dialect – "No pompous strains, nor labour'd lines are here, But genuine mirth and sportive wit appear; Northumbria's genius, in her simple rhymes; Shall live an emblem to succeeding times – Newcastle: – Printed and sold by W & T Fordyce – 1840) is a chapbook style book of Geordie folk ...
Jemmy Joneson's Whurry is a traditional Geordie folk song in Geordie dialect written circa 1815, by Thomas Thompson, in a style deriving from music hall.. This song appears to be the last one Thomas Thompson wrote, and the earliest record of its publication is 1823, seven years after his death.