January 9, 201412 yr Dictionary? http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/newcastle-sayings-updated-top-56-6466922
January 9, 201412 yr Author Glaky what a lovely word .So expressive , as long as you know what it means!
January 9, 201412 yr This mankin geet glakey chep was doon on honkas, looked like he was on the bog – or was it on a mat or poe, i a think it was.
January 12, 201412 yr Author Stagey Bank Fair!Wonder where it came from?Possibly says a lot about the ancestors.My oldest grandson in the NE has never heard the word Glaky/ Glakey he is nearly 14!Sad the old words are dying out.
January 12, 201412 yr Perhaps Robson Green could front-up a telly programme about the Geordie accent ... I can just imagine what that would sound like. The notion brings back fond memories of Dick Van Dyke's* efforts in sounding Cockney. *our younger viewers may want to Google him or the film Mary Poppins ... he's never lived down his strangled effort.
January 12, 201412 yr While Googling 'Stagey Bank fair, I found references to these sayings our family used to use, Send you to the Knackers Yard, Let's have a gander, Money and Fair Words, How's your belly for spots? Waste not, want not, What does Horace say? I found Glakey and Hap (as in hap up the fire before gannen to bed)to be a Bedlington sayings while such as Barrie to be Ashington!
January 13, 201412 yr I have the book Larn yersel Geordie back from the 70 s aaal me friends are welcome tiv it, gis a yonk at himalaya72@gmail,com
February 20, 201412 yr Author Stagey Bank Fair!In the Northumbrian this month an article on the old Drover Roads informs me that there was a huge fair at Stagshaw Bank.It is the junction of the Roman Roads that followed the Hadrian's Wall and Dere Street.Evidently, at their peak, the fairs held here on Whitsun Eve, July, August and October were reckoned to have been the second largest livestock markets after Smithfield.Maybe that is where we got the statement about an untidy house being 'Stagey Bank Fair'
May 13, 201412 yr Author Keith pages two and three of this thread have more on fish and chips and scraps of batter
May 27, 201412 yr I didn't know some of these........... http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/newcastle-sayings-updated-top-56-6466922
May 28, 201412 yr I didn't know some of these........... http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/newcastle-sayings-updated-top-56-6466922Had a gander at the lot Malcolm and 'scratcha - deek and napper are three I could never have thought off.Tried putting them into a sentence - English - If you won't give me a view of your recent purchase I'm off to bed, to rest me head ,before going out.Bedlington - Giz a luk at what yi just bout before a sleep off this after's session. Chronicle - Giz a deek at that before a gan yem to me scratcha, as me nappa's knacking off gannin on the hoy = gobbledogook to me.
May 28, 201412 yr Deek and Napper I have heard and used myself at times. Never come across scratcha but then it was the Chronicle.
May 28, 201412 yr Walla, howfing, radgie, twock, scratcha, doylem, and wazzok are some of the words I believe are "modern†Geordie. Slang words that have just recently evolved, I have about a dozen "Larn yesel' Geordie†type books and cannot find any reference to any of those words.
May 28, 201412 yr Author The first I heard of Purely Belter was the film.The name was taken from a book calked the Season Ticket about two lads whose aim in life is to get a season ticket for the toon.
June 5, 201412 yr Author Keep ahaad has been used recently which reminds me we used the same word to describe the fire getting started.'The fires got ahaad'
June 5, 201412 yr It's the same Word Maggie. (Scandinavian origins: Old Norse hald which became Modern English hold by way of Old English heald). Compare 'The fire's taken a hold' and 'hold on' - both implying that a grip is taken.
June 27, 201412 yr This sprang to mind this morning on the way to work. Couldn't figure that it was half penny worth after saying it over and over. http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/halfpennyworth
June 27, 201412 yr Author I love that expression, now part of history!In Bedlington my favourite has to be 'Neh Bother'Used so often and so typically understated everything is no bother.People help each other.I think it sums up why we enjoy being from Bedlington and why wherever we live we take with us a little bit of kindness and humility.
June 28, 201412 yr One of my favourites is' tappy lappy' especially in the verb-form , 'he went tappy lappying up the street'. Has a lovely ring to it. I feel a pang of home-sickness coming on!
June 28, 201412 yr I'm working with a few lads from Gosforth they said to me people from bedlington can't say hotel properly They said we say it as hoe-tel
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