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Charles Ernest Catcheside-Warrington.edited the six volumes of "Tyneside Stories & Recitations", a series of small booklets each of around 32 pages long and containing a mixture of songs, verse, recitations and stories, all by local Tyneside writers, some well-known, others new to the readers.
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.
Four volumes of his “Tyneside Songs” were published between 1912 and 1927, the contents of which are now of great historical value. [3]Six volumes of his Tyneside Stories & Recitations were published in 1917 (according to "A Dictionary of North East Dialect" 2005 [4]) or “undated but probably sometime in the 1930s” according to other current resale documents.
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 ...
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