Geordie

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Geordie is a distinctive English dialect and accent associated primarily with the people of Newcastle upon Tyne and the surrounding Tyneside area in northeast England.

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Geordie canonical 9
Geordie (for people from Tyneside) 1
Geordie dialect 1

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf English dialect
regional accent
associatedWith Tyneside communities
people of Newcastle upon Tyne
belongsTo Northern English dialect group
contrastedWith Mackem dialect
Received Pronunciation
Yorkshire English
country England
hasAlternativeName Newcastle English
hasCulturalAssociation Newcastle United F.C. supporters
Tyneside popular music and comedy
hasFeature distinctive intonation patterns
distinctive vowel pronunciation
non-rhotic pronunciation
retention of certain Old English forms
use of glottal stops in some consonants
use of local vocabulary items
hasLexicalItem aye
bairn
canny
clarts
gan
gannin
haddaway
hinny
howay
lass
marra
netty
nowt
owt
radgie
scran
toon
hasPhonologicalFeature /uː/ fronting in words like "toon" for "town"
distinctive realization of /r/ as non-rhotic
monophthongal realization of certain diphthongs
hasSociolinguisticStatus marker of local identity
strong regional stereotype in the UK
influencedBy Northumbrian
surface form: Northumbrian Old English

Scots
influences perceptions of Tyneside culture
language English
region Newcastle upon Tyne
North East England
Tyneside urban area
surface form: Tyneside
usedBy many working-class speakers in Tyneside
some middle-class speakers in Tyneside
usedIn everyday speech in Newcastle upon Tyne
local media in Tyneside

Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Newcastle upon Tyne hasLocalDialect Geordie
this entity surface form: Geordie dialect
Novocastrian moreCommonlyKnownAs Geordie
this entity surface form: Geordie (for people from Tyneside)
Mackem distinctFrom Geordie
Yorkshire English relatedTo Geordie
George hasDiminutive Geordie
George hasShortForm Geordie
George hasDiminutive Geordie