O.T. Geordie Dialect

[Cannylad]

Zip, from what I've seen you appear to be a teacher or in the teaching profession. I was talking to my nephew who's kids attend school in Shields and he was telling me they used to have a special class to actually teach/talk about the Geordie dialect because they had done a survey and found that the accent was being watered down through people leaving the area and an influx of non Geordie people, students etc. Have you heard of this before ?
I must say, the last couple of times I have been in the north east, especially downtown Newcastle I have noticed a distinct lack of the Geordie accent as compared to years ago. I suspect this must be happening to many other dialects in the UK due to huge immigration etc. It just sounded strange to have a class at school teaching Geordie to Geordies.

[Zippity]

Funnily enough, I teach in Shields...North Shields, that is.

I haven't heard of that, tbh, but there's no chance of the accent dying out where I teach.

[Kingstonbob1]

Definitely not the last time I was in Waterville or Collingwood Primary school’s that’s for sure.

[Cannylad]

Funnily enough, I teach in Shields...North Shields, that is.

I haven't heard of that, tbh, but there's no chance of the accent dying out where I teach.

Yes, the school is St. Wilfrid's RC in South Shields, they might not be doing this now as this was a couple of years ago.
More power to you for keeping the accent strong though. Whenever I'm back the accent sounds really strong but after a couple of days I'm right back into it again, you'd think I'd never been out of the north east.

[Kingstonbob1]

I always find it interesting how the scouse accent has changed over the years. When you hear the Beatles in the 60/70s, Cilla, Tarbuck etc they all have much softer accents than the likes of Carragher, Gerrard, John Bishop etc. Mind I think Rooney’s is a bit more in the 60’s mould.

[Cannylad]

There used to be a column in the Shields Gazette many years ago called "Dorphy" it was printed purely in the old strong Geordie dialect you had to take your time reading it as it looked like a foreign language even to me. Apparently this was used in the class to show the kids what real Geordie sounds like.

[ghostrider]

I remember getting off at central station and I heard, ganna extemmenit like. It scared the wee out of me. First time I'd ever encountered a Geordie Dalek.

[pboromag]

i love the rafe we trust dialect

as much as i like the like the morning breakfast butties at greggs

[ashingtoon62]

Zip, from what I've seen you appear to be a teacher or in the teaching profession. I was talking to my nephew who's kids attend school in Shields and he was telling me they used to have a special class to actually teach/talk about the Geordie dialect because they had done a survey and found that the accent was being watered down through people leaving the area and an influx of non Geordie people, students etc. Have you heard of this before ?
I must say, the last couple of times I have been in the north east, especially downtown Newcastle I have noticed a distinct lack of the Geordie accent as compared to years ago. I suspect this must be happening to many other dialects in the UK due to huge immigration etc. It just sounded strange to have a class at school teaching Geordie to Geordies.

I come from Ashington as you may have guessed,there was an article in the chronic a few months ago by a language prof.(worth a trawl)if your interested.
He goes on about how the dialect in the pit villages developed and of course how it's now fu cked (he didn't blame Thatcher) but ah dee.An example I know of personally is when one mine closed a few miles away,the lads that didn't take redundancy came to our pit.

Instead of saying yalreet as a greeting they used to say what cheer,we were like WTF..
As for the Toon there are about a zillion students there at the uni..

Plus you've also got what really pi55es me off is all the young chav kunts wi there gangsta sh!t dialect,which did I mention really pi55es me off..

[Cannylad]

I come from Ashington as you may have guessed,there was an article in the chronic a few months ago by a language prof.(worth a trawl)if your interested.
He goes on about how the dialect in the pit villages developed and of course how it's now fu cked (he didn't blame Thatcher) but ah dee.An example I know of personally is when one mine closed a few miles away,the lads that didn't take redundancy came to our pit.

Instead of saying yalreet as a greeting they used to say what cheer,we were like WTF..
As for the Toon there are about a zillion students there at the uni..

Plus you've also got what really pi55es me off is all the young chav kunts wi there gangsta sh!t dialect,which did I mention really pi55es me off..

Yes, pit villages had their own distinct brand of Geordie. Worked with a lad here who used to tell me I wasn't a proper Geordie he claimed people from his part of Newcastle were true Geordies from Waarkaville.