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Geordie accent


Geordie (/ˈɔːrdi/) is a nickname for a person from the Tyneside area of North East England, and the dialect spoken by its inhabitants. The term is also used to refer to anyone from North East England.

Geordie is a continuation and development of the language spoken by Anglo-Saxon settlers employed by the ancient Brythons to fight the Pictish invaders after the end of Roman rule in Britain in the 5th century. The Angles, Saxons and Jutes who arrived became ascendant politically and culturally over the native British through subsequent migration from tribal homelands along the North Sea coast. The Anglo-Saxon kingdoms that emerged in the Dark Ages spoke largely mutually intelligible varieties of what is now called Old English, each varying somewhat in phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon. This linguistic conservatism means that poems by the Anglo-Saxon scholar the Venerable Bede translate more successfully into Geordie than into Standard English.


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