Who is a geordie in the uk

So what exactly is a 'Geordie'? There are several different defintions of what constitutes a Geordie. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a Geordie is 'A native or inhabitant of Tyneside or a neighbouring region of north-east England ' , or 'The dialect or accent of people from Tyneside, esp. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, or more generally neighbouring regions of north-east England. The name comes from the Northumberland and Durham coal mines.

The term first used to describe a local pitman or miner in OED. A form of the name George, a common name among the pitmen in the northeast of England. In George Stephenson gave evidence to a Parliamentary Commission on Railways at which his blunt speech and dialect drew contemptuous sneers. The evocative term for the dialect seems fitting for an area with such imaginative turns of phrase.

Mr Robinson has found there is a wide-ranging appreciation for the dialect. In a recent survey of northern accents, Geordie stood out.

In swathes of Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield, a new accent is emerging across middle-class northerners, referred to as General Northern English. But one area where this was less of the case was in Newcastle. Unlike the rest of northern England, the Newcastle accent and dialect has formed a little differently. The British Library found many contemporary Geordie dialect words have ancient beginnings, with some words mysteriously working themselves into the area.

Invasions after the Anglo Saxons left the North East increasingly linguistically isolated from developments elsewhere in Northumbria. There are almost no names in Northumberland and north Durham containing Viking elements such as by, thwaite or thorp, which are all over the place in Cumbria, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, for example.

Added to that, the Geordie dialect is a lot further away than larger northern cities. This verb form is a nice indication of where Geordies are on the map. Stephenson, born in Wylam, Northumberland, was not a Geordie except as a corruption of his Christian name.

Robin King, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne. I watched Billy Conolly's tour of the UK the other night and he said it was something to do with the name of the lamps the minors used to use. All the other minors in Britain started using a new kind of lamp but those in Newcastle kept the old type of lamp which I think was known as a Geordie or something close and the other minors would refer to those in Newcastle as 'Geordies'.

Billy connolly said this is definately the true story and I beleive Billy! After an explosion in , George Stephenson invented the Geordie lamp in So all north east miners were nicknamed Geordies. Also railwaymen, keelmen and sailors.

The Northumberland miners used this lamp in preference to that invented by Sir Humphrey Davy at the same time, and the lamp, and eventually the miners themselves became known as Geordies.

Sean Thompson, the toon! A question any Geordie should be able to answer, "Who won the battle of Trafalgar? Geordies have been named so long before by our support for King George the second and have many a deep history of this in our TOWN! And ever since we are notorious for liking a good scrap. English-Scottish relations along the border between the two countries were always very strained from to the 's.