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 * Newcastle Upon Tyne**




 * Geographry**



Newcastle is situated in the North East of England, in the ceremonial county of Tyne and Wear and the historical and traditional county of Northumberland. The city is located on the northern bank of the River Tyne at a latitude of 54.974° N and a longitude of 1.614° W.




 * Background**

The word "Geordie" is said to date from the early 18th century, when Newcastle people declared support for the English kings George I and II, in opposition to the rest of the population of Northumberland, who supported the Scottish Jacobite rebellions. Although the name is localised to the Newcastle area, the dialect here merges gradually into the Northumbrian and Scottish dialects to the north and to a lesser extent into Durham and Yorkshire varieties to the south. The variety described here includes that of the region immediately surrounding the city of Newcastle and the villages of East Northumberland to the north that I am more familiar with. These villages, until recently depending largely on the coal industry, are home to many of the broader dialect speakers.




 * People**

93.1% of the population are of white British ethnic background. Many people in the city have Scottish or Irish ancestors. Other ethnic groups in Newcastle, in order of population size, are Pakistani at 1.9% and Indians at 1.2%. There are also small but significant Chinese, Jewish and Eastern European (Polish, Czech Roma) populations. There are also estimated to be between 500 and 2,000 Bolivians in Newcastle, forming up to 1% of the population—the largest such percentage of any UK city.

Favorite food curry, favorite drink Beer, all kinds not just the one and only Newcastle TOON Ale. Famous geordies/Shearer /GAZZA /Beardsley /Waddle/Keegans Grandad /Bobby n Jackie Charlton /Jackie Milburn /Bobby Robson /Robson and Jerome /Bryan Robson /Alan Robson /anybody infact called Robson /Bryan Ferry /Sting /The Animals /Lindisfarne /Dire straights /One of the pet shop boys /Mike Neville /Half the cast of Aufiedersien pet /Jimmy Nail / and SIR John Hall.




 * Grammar**

Probably the most noticeable feature of Geordie grammar is a confusing difference in pronoun forms. The term us is used to indicate a singular "me", while the plural form for "us" is wu or even wuz. So give us it means 'give me it' and give wu it means 'give us it'. "Our" is pronounced wor. Typical members of the family thus include: wor lass 'wife' wor kid 'younger brother' wor fatha 'father', etc. The plural form yous is also in use, and possibly arose due to influence from the large influx of Irish people to Tyneside in the second half of the nineteenth century. The negative form of the verb "to do" is divvent instead of "don't" and there are distinctive past tense forms of verbs such as tell (telt), forget (forgetten) and put (putten). example: I telt you to give us a one, but you've forgetten. If you divvent give us it noo, I'm gannin yearm. ('I told you to give me one, but you've forgotten. If you don't give me it now, I'm going home.')

Example Video

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Hello, I'm Gareth Jameson. I am an actor and voice coach and I teach people how to make changes in their voice. The key to doing any accent is to identify the specific sounds in that accent to identify it as different from other sounds. So, if you're doing a Geordie accent, first off I want to point out that by Geordie here, I mean a very general northeastern England accent. For some people, Geordie means very specifically Newcastle, for others it means the whole of Tyneside or Tyne and Wear, but this is a general picture. We'll only do a few features, so this should cover most of that northeast of England area. First sound we're going to look at, that I find most important, we're going to look at the "a" sound in hay or ate and lane. This becomes more like "euh", almost like two sounds: "e-uh" with a big uh. "Heuh". "Leuhne". "Euhte". So that ate becomes "euhte". Listen to this phrase: "I went down the lane today." So that lane is "leuhne" and today is "todeuh". You might have also noticed that down became "dune". "Dune". Now, this is a little stereotypical, the "tune army" and all that with town becoming "tune"; but it does actually happen, especially in more casual speakers so that dune, sorry, down, becomes dune and town becomes tune. I actually went to Newcastle in the past for a previous job and I will never forget being given directions to drive somewhere and told to "gun reet roon de roon de voot" so I found that really useful phrase. Sometimes when you're doing accents it's useful to have a phrase that you switch the accent on. "Gun reet roon de roon de voot" is one that I use for Newcastle. Now the next one is words like brother and water, picture and shopper, words that end in -er. Now, in British, standard British English, we use "uh". "Brothuh". But in this Geordie Newcastle accent it's much, much wider. "Bruthah" "wa'ah" "pictchah" "shoppah". Notice that "wa'ah" as well. The t in the middle of water has changed completely. It's gone and becomes a glottal stop. Now if you don't know how to do a glottal stop, let's start with the sound "uh-oh", like it's bad news, "uh-oh". And it's the sound you get at the beginning of "uh" and at the beginning of "oh". "Uh-oh" "Wa'a" "wa'a" So you don't want "wa-a", it's "wa'a" with a sort of break in the middle. That's the glottal stop. Finally, the vowel sounds in good, and push, and love, and fun, they're different for any southern English speaker and for somebody from the northeast they're the same vowel. Well this is the same for many northern accents. So we get "good" "poosh" "loove" and "foon", they're all the same. "Good" "poosh" "loove" and "foon". Whereas words like hook and look with a double o become "huke" and "luke". media type="youtube" key="3IBrfeIQzs8" height="390" width="480"

For Geodie Dictionary http://newcastleupontyne.tripod.com/geordie.html#H

For translator http://www.whoohoo.co.uk/main.asp http://www.geordie.org.uk/