Geordie: Dialectable Episode 3.

[@luissp6793]

Fantastic!

[@hannahgibson8837]

Just to clear somethings up, for one not all of the north east talk with a Geordie accent, Sunderland has the Mackem most famously but there is also the Durham and Northumberland accent which is most often a subtler Geordie or general northern accent with more of a north east twang. I can understand almost everything Geordies say with being from county Durham but the word for spider was a new one for me. That shows that even though England is relatively small compared to lots of other countries that words spoken can change even if it is only 10 or 15 miles along the road.

[@hugo54758]

Most informative, ta!

[@jeffroberts_tunes]

Gotta get the microphone placement and room under control so that the sound is better.

[@ChavvyCommunist]

You mentioned "yous", but you could've also mentioned a few other things, like: * They say "we" (which is usually pronounced "wuh") to mean "us", e.g. "They've went down to pick we up." * They say "us" (or at least something that sounds like "us" to non-Geordies) to mean "me" often, e.g. "Have you seen the state of us? I can't go in there." * They say "weese" to mean "whose", e.g. "Weese keys are these keys?". * They pronounce words like book, cook, look, etc phonetically to rhyme with luke and duke. * They use "-sel" as a suffix for "-self". I'm not a geordie myself BTW. This is just my understanding based on my own experience with Geordie.

[@goonerbeagunner4life]

As the girls were leaving, one of them said 'wor' meaning 'our' and I've been kicking myself for not including it ever since.

[@alternativehero]

it's not from old Norse it's from the old English. lot of dialectical words or meanings are hold overs from old/middle English similar to Scots

[@otakuofmine]

indeed, or rather old saxon even. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Anglo-Saxon_origin

[@JuliettOscarEcho]

What's the gorgeous flag in the background?

[@goonerbeagunner4life]

Exmoor. Lovely, isn't it?

[@cool2570]

The mighty Nail & Gear, of course.

[@pauljmorton]

Is that the pleb or the pro version of Nail & Gear?

[@goonerbeagunner4life]

Listen to the audio quality of this video and make your own deductions ;)

[@vatterholm]

That home is "Yem" can't be from Old Norse I'm afraid. Both Old Norwegian and Old Danish had forms like "heim" and "hem" at the time. The from "hjem" and especially the dropping of the H is far younger, from after 1500 sometime.

[@Philoglossos]

Of course it can be. Words, after being adopted into a language, can be subject to phonological changes. The fact that the word descends from a thousand year old loan word doesn't mean it'll be identical to that thousand year old loan word.

[@vatterholm]

It would be a bit weird comparing it to modern Norwegian then, since they'd just be similar due to randomly having similar development?

[@Philoglossos]

They share a common ancestor, meaning some of the similarity is not coincidental. Maybe it would make more sense to compare to icelandic "heim", which it is still more similar to than it is to "home".

[@vatterholm]

Yes. Icelandic/Norwegian "heim" would be much closer to Old Norse at least. Maybe even Swedish "hem", as some Old Danish dialects might have had a monophtong already by then. The video kind of gives the impression the vikings said "jem".

[@Philoglossos]

I don't think it gives that impression. Rather, it gives the correct impression that there are many old norse loan words in use in this dialect not in use in other English dialects.