Americans React to Geordie Accent & Slang | Such a fun accent!

[@claresmith-hill9417]

I'm from Gateshead, Sophie doesn't have a Geordie accent it's definitely a Durham accent

[@Lilacleaf49065]

The geordie dialect ranges across the north east! There are variations and you can hear it mainly in Sunderland Nd Durham. But still goerdie!

[@MarkMares]

It's definitely not Geordie in Sunderland.. it Maccum, you'll offend Geordies saying Sunderland sounds the same..

[@williamcrane3648]

Durham people arent geordies they are closer to the mackems and nobody i know from where i live sounds like her ..

[@kathchandler8189]

​​​@@Lilacleaf49065you cannot be from up here if you dare say that! Of course it's not Geordie spoken anywhere but Tyneside/Newcastle

[@francescascanlan4549]

@@kathchandler8189and some of Northumberland!

[@jeanlongsden1696]

you should watch an old 80's TV comedy drama called "Auf Wiedersehen Pet" which is about a group of Geordies that go to work on a building site in German.

[@gtaylor331]

Wolverhampton is involved as well!

[@noniousxltruffles7454]

​@@gtaylor331 3 Georgies 1 Scouser 1 Brummie 1 Londoner and 1 West Country cider drinker

[@Howay.Man.Angelica]

I love aufwiedersehen pet!

[@peckelhaze6934]

Varying accents in this, funny too.

[@lynnelang3184]

One of the best shows ever!

[@WispaGreentop]

Geordies are by far the most funny, friendliest, and smallest group of people in the UK, i have ever met... long live the geordies.

[@reggawardle4874]

Smallest..wtf...pygmy Geordie..😂😂

[@CarolWoosey-ck2rg]

Smallest? Midgets do you mean? They are big strong people like all Northerners 😂🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@scotmark]

@@CarolWoosey-ck2rg Or Southerners, as we Scots call our Geordie cousins...

[@edix1673]

@@scotmark Youd be really upset to learn that Geordies are Northerners as they come from the north of their country, while people from Edinburgh are southerners, as they come from the south of their country! Glaswegians are Midlanders as they come from the middle of their country...

[@CarolWoosey-ck2rg]

Nah mate northern English​@@scotmark

[@Diseased_Mr_T]

The Geordie accent is almost universally liked in the UK. It's prized for people handling calls, because it's perceived as a friendly and relatable accent. Geordies are typically friendly, down to earth and funny, and they have a very strong sense of community. Great people

[@bojo88]

My grandad was from Newcastle and he was such a lovely man! It makes me smile every time I hear the Geordie accent as it brings back such happy memories of him. He was very family orientated and had 8 children of his own and 10 grandchildren when he sadly passed away. We were always indulged by him and was the most loving and patient man I have ever met!

[@stephenhickman304]

She is bang on with the accent some areas are even stronger , it's a lovely accent

[@ChrisAndCats]

It's a love it or hate it thing. Personally I hate it, along with Liverpool/Scouse, and Birmingham/Brummie. All 3 set my teeth on edge.

[@adrianmcgrath1984]

its also regarded as a very "competent" accent, one that people such as airline passengers like to hear, because they feel reassured that there is a capable person in charge.

[@ChrisAndCats]

@@adrianmcgrath1984 they do?

[@helenwood8482]

It is a lovely accent and Geordies are fantastic people. I was stranded in a town in Oxfordshire when the buses stopped running. Two Grordie builders were also at the bus stop. They decided to get a taxi. I couldn't afford one. They offered to get theirs to take me home too. I didn't hesitate to go with them.

[@reactingtomyroots]

How nice! Love that.

[@john9508]

My daughter in law is from Newcastle and when she gets excited I cannot understand a single word. I find them a great set of people and a good laugh.

[@Howay.Man.Angelica]

I'm Geordie, and my husband was from Somerset. He would say he couldn't understand me when I was either excited, angry or drunk 🤣.

[@donmongoose]

I'm from 15ish miles east of Newcastle on the coast and even I struggle to understand an overexcited (or drunk) Geordie if they have a thick accent.

[@MoominDoogie]

I used to work in York with a lass from Newcastle. Normally she was perfectly understandable, but occasionally she'd go back home to visit her parents for the weekend. When she came in on Monday morning, I could barely tell she was speaking English 😂😂

[@SophieMitchell-b24]

you cant understand them?!? thats the best part.

[@davidfuters7152]

My Dad is. 90 yr old from Morpeth in Northumberland living in a Care Home in the Cotswolds , at the moment he is teaching his Phillipino carer to speak Geordie He started with , wey ye bugger ma , giz a boon Jack , worz the netty , divant dunch iz and am gannin doon the toon Google spell check struggled with that can you imagine how his career is doing 😅😅😅😅😅

[@hanifleylabi8071]

Gadgie doesn't mean old person it just means man. Radgie doesn't mean angry little boy it just means an angry or crazy person of any age/gender.

[@dhamp_]

Specifically it means "non-romani man", it's a loan word from Romani (gadje), because there's a notable Romanichal community up there (my family bridges both miners in Burnopfield, and that Romanichal community).

[@hanifleylabi8071]

@@dhamp_ It means that in Romani (gorjer in Angloromani) but in Geordie it just means man, specifically a man you don't know or whose name you might not know. So that strange / other element has carried over to an extent.

[@adj0191]

You could also be a radgie gadgie😂. But I’m female and when I get annoyed I say I’m being radgie so it doesn’t mean young or male

[@janettesinclair6279]

Gadgie is used in parts of Scotland too, in the sense of "that gadgie" meaning "that guy".

[@iaindavidson2363]

I agree but ive always said it as gudgie and gudgiecoff and ive never had to write that down b4 so take the spelling with a pinch of salt​@janettesinclair6279

[@paulglass9290]

i'm a born and bred geordie and we voted the friedliest accent in the uk!paul from north shields

[@timholder6825]

Wrong side of the river bra. Greetings from a Sand dancer.

[@kimberleyelizabethbailes-ql9qk]

@timholder6825 also live this side but born further up the river

[@christineunitedkingdom1824]

I'm further south, teesside. People think I'm Geordie or Irish!

[@heleni0]

​@@christineunitedkingdom1824Same! I'm from Stockton. Any North-East accent = Geordie, apparently

[@Nclchitchat]

I'm a geordie as well!

[@lonewarrior6633]

Love the Geordies. Absolute legends all round the UK!

[@IGSkaarj]

I'm quite impressed with Steve's imitation of the accent as he hears it

[@Pixietoria]

Same. He seems to have a great ear for subtle vowel differences.

[@jakemorrison8507]

Yeah definitely got some geordie in him haha

[@mattsmith5421]

You DO NOT want to polute your eyes and ears with Geordie shore.

[@no-oneinparticular7264]

Agreed

[@Leenufc]

As a geordie I agree 👍

[@Roz-y2d]

Ahhh noooo!😱

[@reluctantheist5224]

Amen!

[@MooMoo20244]

Fellow Geordie I agree! 😅

[@johnallsopp6324]

She was not exaggerating the accent - that's how it really sounds. With vowels it's called the 'flat northern vowels'. When I was in school in the North East the most hilarious school lessons were us Geordies driving the French teacher crazy because we wouldn't say an acute 'e' sound. Actually the Geordie accent is closer to what Old English (Saxon English) would sound like but throw in the Viking settlements and Scottish influences and Dutch traders and out pops Geordie. I love it and love returning to see relatives in Durham and Northumberland and being immersed again in that beautiful accent.

[@hanifleylabi8071]

She doesn't have a Geordie accent

[@johnallsopp6324]

@@hanifleylabi8071 Well, it is stated at the start that she's from County Durham so it will be a bit different from Newcastle Geordie. Yes, maybe they should have found someone from north of the Tyne but the video gets the flavour of the accent. I grew up both north and south of the Tyne so changed my accent depending on which relatives I was staying with.

[@kimberleyelizabethbailes-ql9qk]

​@johnallsopp6324 my grandad spoke pitmatic

[@124Gillian]

She is using slang not all Geordie and don’t think she is an actual Geordie at all 😊

[@hanifleylabi8071]

@@johnallsopp6324 It's not about being a different Geordie, it's just not a Geordie accent. South Tyneside fair enough, but county Durham is just a different accent altogether.

[@simonmeadows7961]

Though the two videos kept referring to Geordie, there are 3 key different accents in the north east of England. They vary (roughly) by the river they're based around. So Geordie related to the river Tyne. But Mackem relates to the river Wear and Smoggie relates to the river Tees. To the unaccustomed ear, they may sound the same, but they are distinct and if you live in the north east for a bit, you'll get familiar with the differences.

[@Roz-y2d]

I’ve never heard of the last two.

[@Britabroad877]

@@Roz-y2d- I'm from Durham and really classed as a Mackem. The accent is very close to Geordie, with a few variants on some of the words used.

[@kmay1975]

Smoggie here and yes I’ve been called a geordie many times 😂

[@martynnotman3467]

There are gradations between them too. Southern County Durham is easy for me (who grew up there) to tell apart from Middlesbrough or Redcar. Also theres some very odd accents in Northumbria

[@gillfox9899]

​@@kmay1975I find them so different and am always surprised when can't understand. Now living in Lancashire and a man from near Durham delivered a horse to a friend.. I was wondering why I was the only one talking when I looked at my friends who hadn't a clue what we were saying

[@chr1998is]

I can second watching “Auf Wiedersehen, Pet” for a good example of the Geordie accent and how they talk to others around the country.

[@RachaelMorgan-om4xw]

That's because all the Geordies in Auf Weidersein are real Geordies 😊

[@JoBrady-q8p]

Im from the English Midlands. Some years ago I went to Newcastle on a training course... I love the Geordie accent and was really looking forward to spending time there.. however, for the first three days every conversation I had with those lovely people always ended with me saying "sorry, I didn't understand that" because the accent is rather more difficult to grasp than what you heard in that video.. I eventually got tuned in and I had a wonderful time. Geordies are such warm and welcoming people with a terrific sense of humour.

[@SassenachCJ]

YES, geordie here and I'm so glad you did this video. We're a canny bunch of people in the North East

[@emilyfurey4483]

Aye we are hinny

[@Adam-f8c]

It starts to change the further south of the Tyne you go towards Sunderland tho... Middlesbrough and Hartlepool all that sort of way are near enough Yorkshire esp how them lot speak... A mean it's red car and Cleveland... So is Whitby which is in Yorkshire.

[@RatManAl]

I'm a geordie and I'm absolutely offended by that accent claiming to be geordie 😂

[@andysadler6432]

easily the best accent in the uk

[@bensouthwell1339]

just try speaking to someone at a "Call Centre" with a Geordie twang may as well be talking Hebrew.

[@missano3856]

Undecipherable Scottish accents are pretty cool. If it's really thick,I don't understand any better than Frisian

[@geoff1201]

A man is sailing his boat up the Tyne. A geordie calls out to ask the name of the boat. "Anna" the man calls back. "Ah nah ye nah, but ah divvn't nah" replies the geordie.

[@Howay.Man.Angelica]

😂

[@amelianyoom9545]

I love that I understand this completely

[@CarolWoosey-ck2rg]

Perfectly logical to me😂

[@janettesinclair6279]

@@CarolWoosey-ck2rg And me!

[@tonycasey3183]

A woman goes to a Geordie hairdresser and asks for a perm. The hairdresser replies: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day....

[@suzielynne9421]

I'm a born and bred Geordie, when a gathering of Geordies start speaking, it's another language. ❤

[@ANationalAcrobat-qj2dl]

Me too - born at Preston hospital in North Shields.

[@oceanwave9316]

Me too I can spit in the Tyne

[@RachaelMorgan-om4xw]

Me too...Oooh! What's the collective noun for Geordies? 🤔

[@suzielynne9421]

@@RachaelMorgan-om4xw a gaggle of Geordies? 😅

[@suzielynne9421]

@@oceanwave9316 Gateshead, for me.

[@soul146]

I'm Norwegian and i find this accent the easiest (of people from UK i've come across) to understand, they have words that are very similar to norwegian too. I'm not entirely sure of how this is, but i've been told it comes from viking occupation, but certainly caught my ears when i heard it.

[@gw3631]

It’s true we have Scandinavian words but it’s mostly Anglo Saxon origins and we love the cold too

[@AwesomeDadla]

Yeah its a bit of saxon, viking and a bit of Dutch.

[@coolmum47]

"I'm gannen hyem" .... similar to (I think) Danish ... "Ik ga hyem".

[@AstralRaven1928]

This makes so much sense. I'm from Newcastle and we've had football players from the likes of Denmark play for nufc who speak perfect English that sounds so similar to the geordie accent. Peter Lovenkrands is a good example, when hearing him speak you would believe he's from the North of England or Scotland yet he's actually Danish.

[@soul146]

@@coolmum47 As we say, Danish is Norwegian with a potato in your throat aha. I would say it is flow of the language too if that is any sense, the parts of sentence that are more, ah blanking on the word, pronounced?

[@joelhall8355]

By far my most favourite video from you guys,extremely entertaining. As an adopted Geordie of over 40 years, it’s still funny and entertaining to watch people outside the area and country learn about our accent. Keep up the good work guys.

[@reactingtomyroots]

Thanks! Glad we could be of service 😂 We do really enjoy the accents.

[@theotherside8258]

But its annoying to hear the younger generation spouting ignorance of their own dialect.

[@da90sReAlvloc]

​@@reactingtomyroots if you want to explore the Geordie accent and slang more check out the video Ant and Dec quizzed on Geordie slang

[@RAGING_MIRAGE]

I'm just the down the road in Durham city. We don't speak that broad but it's similar and it's a beautiful accent. Great people too.

[@jpw6893]

I live in Durham but from Newcastle so I speak less broad so people understand me.

[@RAGING_MIRAGE]

@@jpw6893 😆

[@DrShakamoto.]

My granda always called us the posh Geordies 😂

[@RAGING_MIRAGE]

@@DrShakamoto. Bless. Nothing posh about us though lol

[@benfisher1376]

Durham is the best English city imo

[@northnsouth6813]

The Geordie accent has its roots in the Anglo-Saxon settlements, it is shaped by the Angles (The Angles were a Germanic people who settled in Britain and contributed to the formation of England), who came from the Danish Peninsula. It has more words of Anglo-Saxon origin than standard English, and some words are similar to modern Danish.

[@jemmajames6719]

Same along the north east coast

[@nekite1]

It's absurd how the accent changes several times in less than a 40 mile radius of Newcastle and the nicknames that areas have. There are the people from South Shields (about 5 miles away) referred to as "Sand dancers", the people of Sunderland are called "Mackems", further down the coast the people of Hartlepool are referred to as "Monkey hangers" and the folks of Middlesbrough are called "Smog monsters".

[@larryholmes69]

We refer to Hartlepudlians as ''Monkey Hingers'', and just so people know, the reason for that name is because, during the Napoleonic wars a french ship was wrecked off the Hartlepool coast. The people from Hartlepool, not having seen a Frenchman before, discovered a monkey clinging to a piece of driftwood, washed up on the local beach. They promptly hung it from the town gallows , thinking it was a french spy.

[@Reign-z1e]

And lets not forget the pit yakkas 😂

[@Templemtv]

The Geordie Accent is the oldest English dialect, so I’m guessing that’s why there’s more variations because it’s been around the longest

[@RachaelMorgan-om4xw]

Errrrrmm...... I think you should check your geography........you are miles out...in every direction. Are you posh?

[@themag314]

And further north you also have Ashington, which is a special dialect in itself!

[@christineadams7675]

I am a Geordie and proud of it. Glad you like the accent.

[@harbl99]

Al Murray's _Geordie whalesong_ skit is great. "Geordies? Wonderful creatures. You know they can communicate across miles? Waaaaaay. Howaaaaaay man. Waaaaaaay ayeeeeee. Yeeee knaaaaa. Toon. Tooooooooon."

[@helenbailey8419]

😂😂😂😂

[@AwesomeDadla]

Aye it funny like 👍

[@LLMoran617]

My favourite UK accent - it's so cheery and makes me feel calm. (I'm a Londoner)

[@cheryltotheg2880]

Yea I’m a Londoner and I love it too

[@reggawardle4874]

Ah bonny lads and lasses.ya ra canny bunch ya sells.. al tigither like a big family..❤

[@reactingtomyroots]

It definitely put a smile on our faces! :)

[@lottie2525]

I'm from the UK and this is one of my fave British accents. It's so hard to imitate.

[@stevencarr4002]

The diphthongs are really tricky for non-Geordies.

[@RachaelMorgan-om4xw]

You're so right, Lottie. I went to Drama college in Coventry, and everyone used to immitate me... most heinously.... Drama students! Tch!! Having said that, I'm buggered if I could do the Cov accent... it's neither nowt nor something... Not one of my fellows could do a Liverpool accent... it always came out Brummie. I, however exelled at Scouse,cos it has the same lilt, or tune as Geordie...and Welsh, lookyou! 🤭

[@LynnWaggott]

Proud Geordie here, we are the friendliest people you could ever meet 😊 There is a saying that goes" where ever ye gan ya sure to meet a Geordie" which from my point of view has proven true 😁

[@bensouthwell1339]

Smoggies are the friendliest Sand-Dancers the worst.

[@LynnWaggott]

@@bensouthwell1339 not too sure about that 🤫

[@olwens1368]

As a child I thought my Geordie Granny (born 1890) spoke 2 languages- the English-with-Geordie accent when she was speaking to people from other parts of the country- and pure Geordie when she was talking to her local friends. I loved hearing it. If the Geordie accent was an animal it would be small and fluffy and you could cuddle it.

[@mrmr5580]

I had a fling with a Geordie girl a few years back, they really do speak like that, ive been to Newcastle too, the Geordies are very friendly people

[@RachaelMorgan-om4xw]

Thank you for your approval, kind sir..... Now, I politely suggest, on behalf of every Geordie in the world, that you find the biggest, nastiest dildo ever, and shove it up uranus.

[@davidrichardson5482]

In Nottingham our term of endearment is 'duck' for some reason. 'Aup me duck' = hello love. 'Alright duck?' = how are you love? Also - I love how 20 mins of watching geordies and you've adopted their hysterical outlook on everything!

[@reactingtomyroots]

They have a very contagious, fun energy for sure :)

[@AB-ot1pv]

In south Lancashire/North Cheshire the term for endearment is "cock". I suspect we got the shittier end of that stick. 😅

[@annicecooper8105]

" Aye up me Duck " is really common across Leicestershire and Derbyshire too. We hear it a lot here. 😊

[@michaelcaffery5038]

It's from the same Norse root as 'Duke'. A bit like calling someone 'chief' but has become more of a term of affection. It is more common in the North East of England as that part was under Norse control the longest.

[@annicecooper8105]

@@michaelcaffery5038Saxon rather than Norse and definitely East Mids - Derby usually lays claim to it but then they would, wouldn't they ? 😉😆 My kids proudly took their "me duck " t-shirts off to Uni with them. Wonder whether the East Mids miners maybe took it up North with them as they moved for work as our pits began to close ? 🤷

[@greyandblue4323]

Being close to the Scottish border means there are many shared elements to this accent.

[@scotmark]

Even more so in terms of vocabulary (toon, bairn, "Dae whit yer telt!"). Lowland Scots (not the same thing as Scottish English, think the language of Robert Burns) derives from Northumbrian Middle English (and shares its Viking influence, among other things). Edinburgh was once at the northern extreme of Northumbria.

[@geoff1201]

Also viking, if you hear a group of Scandinavians talking.

[@ethelmini]

Same place - The kingdom of Northumbria was from above the Humber to the Firth of Forth.

[@juliemoran926]

@@ethelminiAnglo Saxons moved north thru ancient Northumbria from the late 400s to 600s and gave us words, grammar and speech patterns that we still use today in Geordie-land to Fife. Later in the late 800s, Danish Vikings invaded these same coastal areas, bringing similar Germanic root words and phrases, but Anglo Saxon still dominated. Norwegian Vikings invaded many other parts of the rest of Scotland around the same period, again bringing similar Germanic loan words, especially to ancient Gaelic in the highlands and islands. It’s easy to confuse these as all coming from the same Viking, Germanic outside influences. But essentially, Geordie and lowland, eastern Scotland retains more Anglo Saxon/friesan plus old Danish, but the rest of Scotland, has more Norwegian Viking. We all of course have some later Norman influence, essentially French. However, nowhere near as much as mid and south UK. Plus the great vowel shift passed the north of England and Scotland by. Essentially RP is a modern dialect in comparison to Geordie or old Scots, which is ironic, as it’s considered ‘correct’ or proper English.

[@mikesaunders4775]

The south of Scotland was once part of the Anglian kingdom of Northumbria and while border changes took place the Northumbrian version of Old English remained and became the basis of 'Scots' or 'Lallans' speech.

[@triciaoflanagan8247]

Im scottish but married to a Geordie fella and living in North Tyneside now. I love the accent and the people. We do still misunderstand each other occasionally even after 30 years 😂😂😂. Great video guys. ❤x

[@Tpot15]

Lol this was brilliant i was crying laughing along with you😂😂😂

[@MarkmanOTW]

The fact that you're laughing throughout just shows how the Geordie accent and those who speak it bring a smile and happiness when you hear it. A couple of things you might be interested in; 1. Generally, UK films, TV shows, and media/events featuring spoken English when exported to the US are sanitised with RP English, hence why many Americans have this idea of only one English accent. When true British accents are spoken at the natural pace (with colloquialisms, dialect and slang), many Americans are unable to understand (and therefore would not be commercial success) - e.g. Cheryl Cole (from the UK band Girls Aloud) was dropped as a judge from the America's Got Talent because of her Geordie accent. Sometimes even titles of films/books etc are simplified (dumbed down?), e.g the 1989 Bond movie 'Licence to KIll' was originally named 'Licence Revoked' (where Bond loses his 007 'licensed to kill' status). 2. Accents from hilly, mountainous areas tend to undulate and have a sing-song sound, up and down like the surrounding land where they're spoken. Flat monotone accents tend to reflect the flatland areas, plains and river esturies nearer the coast. This has been observed by linguistic researchers in the UK, and was more noticeable and distinctive before the motorways were built and people became increasingly mobile over longer distances, especially from the 1960s onwards. 3. The Geordie accent is mainly found around Newcastle, however the accent changes slightly as you move into the surrounding areas. Mackem tends to be found in neighbouring Sunderland area, and the Pitmatic accent was heard spoken around the location of coalfields of Durham and Northumberland.

[@horrowfide]

I can't wait to see this, greetings from Newcastle! 😀

[@katiperry8533]

I'm Gateshead, so not that far away

[@DistrictDriver]

Same here!

[@horrowfide]

Slightly disappointed, get someone from Walker or Dunston to do that video.

[@Leenufc]

Me too lads 😂

[@jenscee7679]

Hi, I’m from Blyth but live in Hebburn!

[@stumccabe]

Terms of endearment that I've heard from different parts of the UK: dear, love, darlin', sweetheart, duck, hen, petal, flower, chuck, pet, me lover, me 'andsome. "Me lover" and "me 'andsome" are used in my part of the country, Devon.

[@nigelbundy4008]

I went to Padstow in Cornwall to watch the Obby Oss festival. The barmaid at my hotel would always ask " what can I get you my lovely?"

[@stumccabe]

@@nigelbundy4008 Thanks for that, I'd forgotten "my lovely"!

[@Diseased_Mr_T]

You also missed one of the two classic Geordie terms of endearment, used alongside pet. Hinnie.

[@Paul99T]

"Babs" in the West Midlands... I'm not originally from here but I've found myself using it here on occasion

[@TeeCup__]

Sitting here totally beaming that you focused on my accent!!

[@sarahscraftyallsorts6482]

Aye shame they didn’t use a real Geordie to do explain it , County Durham 🤷‍♀️

[@maggiebrinkley4760]

Gan canny! (Take care!) My family is from the North-East of England (though I've lived in the south of England for many years) and Geordies are the kindest, friendliest people you could ever meet.

[@dscott1392]

As a Scot I understand even the strongest Geordie accent.

[@Cazzdevil]

I'm a Geordie and was just in the Netherlands a couple of weeks ago and all the Dutch folk thought I was Scottish. The accents must sound really similar to foreign ears 😄

[@dscott1392]

@@Cazzdevil yeh we share similar words such as bairns...I'm from the East of Scotland

[@harbl99]

Heard an American explain Geordies as 'south of the border Scots' once. "Absolutely not! They're comple- ... No nonsense. Engineering tradition. Thrifty but generous. Proud but not aggressive about it. Strong dialect. Bagpipes. You know, he's kinda got a point."

[@Cazzdevil]

@@harbl99 My Mam was Scottish and married my dad - a Geordie, and she always said that Geordies are "Scots folk with their heeds kicked in" 😆 I think she meant it as a compliment... I mean she married one, moved here and had two Geordie kids so she must've liked it over here... 🤷

[@jenscee7679]

@@dscott1392I refer to children and grandchildren as bairns. I’m from Northumberland

[@johnnyuk3365]

Call Centres like employing Geordies because they come across as friendly and helpful when talking to the public over the phone.

[@reactingtomyroots]

Can definitely see why!

[@PolarBear4]

If talking to others from the area they also get through calls faster due to the speed we talk too lol

[@GeordieBoy700]

I spent 20 years in a call centre. If i ever end up in one again, i need to be sent a rubber room.

[@t.a.k.palfrey3882]

The best movie/ film to watch in order to hear the Geordie accent in context, is the multi award-winning 2000 film Billy Elliot, starring Jamie Bell. Bell comes from Co Durham so speaks the accent naturally.

[@Leenufc]

The geordie accent comes from Newcastle and the bank of the tyne , not Durham which is on the wear so more mackem to be honest

[@jackiecook1565]

Jamie Bell comes from Billingham in Teesside,

[@t.a.k.palfrey3882]

@@jackiecook1565 Strange that Billingham says on its own website that it is, "Billingham, Co Durham".

[@jackiecook1565]

@@t.a.k.palfrey3882 Billingham is in a county in the North East of England. Many years ago that county was Durham, then it was changed to Teeside, then it changed to the County of Cleveland, then quite recently changed back to County Durham. I’ve lived in the county for 40 years

[@EtherealSunset]

​@@Leenufcmost County Durham accents don't sound like a Mackem one. The further south you get, the more diluted the accent gets from Geordie, but it sounds more diluted Geordie. You can hear the gradual changes in words from one town to the next. Mackems just seem to do their own unique thing, that's nothing like other bits of County Durham.

[@emmaravenhill8728]

As a Londoner , Newcastle is my favourite city and favourite people I love everything about them! X

[@Mr_Linka]

She’s more of a Mackem rather than Geordie. People from North East England will be able to tell straight away… The actor Charlie Hunnam (Son’s of Anarchy) is from Newcastle, as is Sting.

[@RachaelMorgan-om4xw]

Sting is from Wallsend

[@Mr_Linka]

@@RachaelMorgan-om4xw Technically Wallsend is a town, but most people know it as a suburb of Newcastle. But you’re not wrong.

[@RachaelMorgan-om4xw]

@@Mr_Linka Heheh! The reason I know that is not because I am a Jarrow lass, and a lifetime fan of Sting; which I am... I saw him interviewed, oooh.. years ago..maybe Jonathon Ross, and he asked Sting if his song, 'Fields of Gold' was based on his childhood, growing up in rural Tyneside? ..... Our man, Sting, he guffawed, and blurted in his perfect and honest-to-God Geordie accent... "Why, no, man! I grew up in Wallsend! There was nowt but shipyards....!" 🤭🐝

[@deanwatson1773]

I disagree she is from north Durham I think where I'm from and we speak more similar to Geordie than in south Durham who speak more like mackems.

[@ViIsBi]

As are all the members of The Animals

[@PLuMUK54]

I'd recommend that you look at the Black Coutry dialect (not Brummie, they are different). I used to teach my classes the history of the English language, and learned some "Yam Yam" (Black Country): Ay yo, ken yo keck a bo agin a wo n buss it?* A colleague from the Black Country taught me that one. She told me about when she was at Uni. She took her friend home with her. At the end of the first day, she worriedly asked the friend, who had been very quiet all day, if she was OK. The friend apparently replied, "I'm fine, but I've not understood a word for the last 6 hours." I once took my late mum to a market in the Black Country, and I had to act as a translator! Even today, the dialect changes with each town in the Black Country, and there are many towns. My example was apparently Old Hill. Less than a mile away, the dialect would be different. I'd recommend looking for Dolly Allen, a Black Coutry comedian. > > > > > > *Excuse me, can you kick a ball against a wall and burst it?

[@reactingtomyroots]

We're definitely going to have to check out this accent as well!

[@NelSunScot]

Anyone from the NE England knows in both of these videos they are slowing down how quickly they would normally speak and have changed some words so, what they are saying is intelligible to anyone watching the video. It’s akin to someone trying to learn Spanish on Duolingo and then actually going to Spain to find out they still haven’t got a clue.

[@wendymcgough358]

Accents differ from area to area northumberland accent different to geordie as more pit slang

[@reactingtomyroots]

Yeah, we figured it was much more pronounced than would be normally 😅

[@shannont7461]

@@reactingtomyrootsi think he was trying to say the opposite to that

[@AwesomeDadla]

She definitely slowing our accent down so you know what she,s saying. When you hear us out and about talking to each other if much faster

[@terryloveuk]

The Geordie accent on an (old) TV show and follow up, "The Likely Lads" and "Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads" - one of the actors, James Bolam, is well known Geordie actors, he has also in a drama "When The Boat Comes In" with lots of other Geordie accents.

[@terryloveuk]

PS. My grandparents were from Hartlepool (county Durham), I guess they spoke "Pitmatic", a close relative of Geordie, but they insisted it wasn't Geordie.

[@tomlynch8114]

@@terryloveuk they’d have spoken ‘Pit yakka’. It sometimes gets confused with Pitmatic which is the accent spoken to the north of Newcastle in the former pit villages and towns of South East Northumberland. Pit Yakka has more in common with the Mackem accent of Wearside whilst Pitmatic has more in common with the Geordie accent of Tyneside.

[@terryloveuk]

@@tomlynch8114 As I understand it from other videos about UK accents, "Pitmatic" is the term for the dialect of the Northumberland & Durham coalfields, a pit yakker sounds to me a term for a person who spoke that dialect. According to my relatives (aunts, cousins and my uncle) they were adament they weren't Geordies.

[@steveross8326]

James Bolam....born in Sunderland, not a Geordie I'm afraid.

[@tomlynch8114]

@@steveross8326 exactly!

[@billydoc71]

it is so nice to see you both giggling and laughing really sweet

[@miesque001]

Always surprises me that they never explain how to pronounce Newcastle - that being the heart of Geordieland. For anyone interested, it’s Nyuhcassell 😸

[@janettesinclair6279]

Ha ha ha!

[@ianbaker8225]

That's aboot reet....👍

[@Debbie76]

Or just The Toon 🤷🏼‍♀️🙂

[@sharonmartin4036]

I am having a good giggle here, because you are trying to imagine 'rules' governing when and how certain words sound in the Geordie accent when there are actually NO rules. Someone from one town away from this lady could enunciate those words differently, and another town away it could be different in a third way. I had a Georgie couple as friends of mine for many years and I could understand the husband 100%, but sometimes had to ask him to translate something his wife had just said, even after knowing them for 10+ years, LOL. The Geordies are fabulous people, though. Kindness personified!

[@PolarBear4]

I can think of at least 3 different ways of saying "water" and that's just in my friend group.

[@CushtyCrow]

@@PolarBear4 Watta

[@Korrihor]

Being currently from the East Midlands the common term of endearment in my area would be duck. A common greeting would be "Ey up me duck." In the West Midlands , where I was born, it would be bab. Luv is more of a southeast thing.

[@gillian5005]

Great fun, and very interesting, thanks guys. A great laugh!

[@barrysteven5964]

You've got me excited. I'm a Geordie and a linguist. If you'll indulge me, the part of our accent I think is the most distinctive is the 'glottalisation' of p, t and k sounds between vowels. It's called 'glottal reinforcement'. What makes it different to most glottal stops in English is that it does NOT replace the consonant as you find in the stereotypical examples of 'a bottle of water' = a bo'le o' wa'er'. The glottal stop is pronounced simultaneously with the consonant 'reinforcing' it rather than replacing it. It's typical of the North East and I believe it is a feature of Danish too. Whilst I don't dispute this lady's accent I do wish she could have done it without the silly faces and the imitation of someone rather daft. Having a Geordie accent doesn't turn you into a simpleton.

[@jamesdignanmusic2765]

I always think it's fitting that "glottal" is pronounced "glo'al" :)

[@juliemoran926]

Couldn’t agree more. I’ve 1st class hons and was the youngest on my masters course way back when. I find it ironic that southern England assumes a lack of fine culture when hearing a Geordie accent, when the reality is that our dialect is closer to ancient old English, whilst theirs is essentially French and very new.

[@SophieMitchell-b24]

I adore the Geordie accent, it's so beautiful. The way she said conjunctivitis made me crack all the way up. Lots of love from Yorkshire, England x

[@arcadiaknox304]

The best word for a Geordie to pronounce is "Oompaloompa"

[@cheryl71000]

Yayyyy hiya from a Geordie. When asked if you are all right, older men usually say im Champion, champion man. Which means he is great thks. My brother had to explain this statement to a indian doctor who thought the old gentleman he was treating with a broken ankle , said he had dementia because of this statement. Doctor rewrote his report after it was explained to him.

[@cflict9947]

Another Geordie watching 😁

[@Nclchitchat]

me too!

[@kathryngreetham]

True Geordie here born within a mile of the Tyne on the north side. Haven't t lived there in a while but when I get angry, boy does my strong accent breakthrough. I don't mind because I am so proud of my Geordie roots.

[@DavidFoster-i7o]

Cringing at the makem accent yet American's thinking it is representative of Geordie

[@DistrictDriver]

When I was working down south, if I spoke using my full Geordie accent, no-one could understand me! I use the terms "pet" and (an old fashioned word) "hinny" all the time. Aalreet aa'l not gan on in case ye divint gerrit.

[@jenscee7679]

Ah dee gerrit marra.

[@geoff1201]

The wokes want to ban "pet"

[@wallythewondercorncake8657]

Weird thing to lie about but okay, whatever makes you feel special.

[@lynnejamieson2063]

@@wallythewondercorncake8657 though I’m not a Geordie myself (but I have lived in Newcastle for over a decade) I am a Scot with a relatively soft accent, who when living in the South of England (especially in the South West) was often asked to translate for Scots with stronger accents…especially Glaswegians.

[@wallythewondercorncake8657]

@@lynnejamieson2063 I am from the South West. Welcome to the bad liars club!

[@moyaterry8493]

Yay! So glad you did this! I was born a pit yakker, now I’m a Monkey Hanger, but people not from the north east think we all sound Geordie. Geet Walla means very big. We say git wass instead of geet walla 😊

[@tonyrose754]

She doesn't have a proper Geordie accent. She's from County Durham, and you can tell.

[@deanwatson1773]

She does have a Geordie accent it's north Durham I'm from there.

[@sarahfellows3074]

It is so annoying, every time any one says they are doing a geordie accent, it is always a Durham accent, even on films, why?

[@deanwatson1773]

@sarahfellows3074 im from north Durham I literally can see Newcastle where I'm from why am I not Geordie then when I literally sound the same as you and sound nothing like people from the south of my county.

[@JimmiBiscuit]

Geordie Shore is a TV show. A common term for endearment in Scotland would be 'hen'.

[@kimberleyelizabethbailes-ql9qk]

My Auntie used hen as well as hinny

[@simondobbs4480]

a term of endearment here in the midlands is "duck" (as in quack quack).. "Hello dear" translates to "aye up Dook"

[@claregale9011]

I use that and luv , I'm in South of England .

[@johnrupik786]

@@claregale9011 I.m from South Yorkshire and I got called "luv" by in Doncaster Market by a female stallholder. My wife had just come to England from the Philippines and did not understand and I was in trouble. Fortunately when we got of the bus the driver called her "luv", which helped to clear up the situation.😥

[@aidencox790]

Just me as a Geordie, but "aye up me duck" drives me crazy. Duck?

[@simondobbs4480]

@@aidencox790 why not?

[@jedrick001]

Working as a nurse for over 30 years in the north east near Newcastle, you should have heard old people talking years ago it was even stronger but tv, film and internet have diluted the accent a bit.

[@stevencarr4002]

My Geordie accent from the 1960s sounds weird to young Geordies today. I rhyme 'water' with 'batter' , for example. You almost never hear 'fower' for 'four' any more. The accent is much more diluted today.

[@jedrick001]

@@stevencarr4002 and you don’t hear ‘divvant nah’ or ‘hinny’ much anymore.

[@davidrobinson4400]

My Geordie accent mellowed when I started work and I had to talk with our company's clients across the UK. The main change was not using Geordie dialect words any more.

[@mavisdunton7172]

Aye ye dee​@@jedrick001

[@KeithKristi-f7l]

This video made me laugh out loud. Your reactions were a hoot!

[@pjgtech]

The Geordie accent is great, one of my faves. To hear a Geordie say "wheres my Compact Kodak Colour Camera" is a joy to behold, Lol 8-)

[@NanaKaren1953]

Oh you two!!! My lunch has gone cold. Am here on my own laughing out loud at you two with the slang. Thank you!! Hope Sophia has settled more now. Take care. Nana Karen UK

[@reactingtomyroots]

Glad we could provide you a laugh, but sorry your lunch got cold. 😅 Sophia is starting to like school a bit more and seems to finally be adjusting. Thank you for asking ❤️

[@LewisLittle66]

I'm married to a Geordie and I love the accent.

[@francescaturner8361]

Don't worry most of us in England find it difficult when Geordies are talking to each other in full flood!!

[@CarolWoosey-ck2rg]

Speak for yourself ! I find them easy to understand

[@Roz-y2d]

@@CarolWoosey-ck2rgWell, you’re not one of them coz you have no sense of humour!

[@Roz-y2d]

👍🏻🤣

[@CarolWoosey-ck2rg]

By the sound of it neither do you😂

[@NicolaCatleugh-x5h]

Really enjoyed watching this . We have our own language up north. Most companies have their call centres here as we have one of the most liked accents. Sophie is my daughter but she now lives in Liverpool , where she’s known as Geordie Sophie.

[@allybowesrevival9800]

As a Lancastrian (from Lancashire in the north west of England) the Geordie accent makes me melt. I'm a member of the Toon Army (Newcastle United 🖤🤍⚽️) and I moved to the north east when I married so I hear this wonderful accent every day 💜 You came up as a suggested watch and I've subscribed 🙂

[@AutomaticDuck300]

We also say ‘us’ instead of ‘me’. I’m not sure if it’s only in Geordie. “Give us a drink” instead of “Give me a drink”.

[@no-oneinparticular7264]

We used to say that in the 60s in Nottingham. No idea why, just automatic.

[@beedronesuk9848]

i move to nottingham as a kid mate, and got bullied for this XD ...... leave us alone man-- ' kids in school' who the **** is us there is only you XD

[@Believer3_]

True, i would say 'is', rather then 'us' ... "give is a drink"

[@frankdux5693]

​@@Believer3_aye, me too. Defo "is"

[@Believer3_]

@@frankdux5693 or if am texting me m8s and not tryin to be formal.. ill sometimes use "giz", which is like combining give and is together 😆😁

[@lynnbargewell3833]

I’ve lived in the northeast of England for many years now, but was originally from Hampshire in the south of England, and I still I have my southern accent and it’s considered posh up here. Over the years I’ve learned to understand the different colloquial accents like the Geordies. Years ago there was a comedian called Bobby Thompson , he was pure Geordie and hilarious if you could understand what he was saying. You might also look up the Sunderland accent which I found harder to understand than the Geordie one. Loving your reactions to our different accents. A term of endearment here is luv, or hun ( shortened for honey )

[@karenblackadder1183]

Have an LP of Bobby Thompson ' The Little Waster'.

[@PolarBear4]

I'm a Geordie and used to struggle to understand some of my Mackem relatives.

[@barbh0]

My paternal grandparents' accent - I love it!

[@bigtel79]

You should here Charlie hunnam for SOA he is a geordie and uses his geordie accent in the gentleman movie. Also look for kids TV from 90s called byker grove.

[@shen.media.makeup]

My boyfriend is a Geordie .it's my fave northern accent then Liverpool..it's such a warm accent. It's actually the oldest accent in UK..everyone once spoke like it.

[@eddiegreaves872]

I'm from Tyneside and a proud Geordie. Have a look at Washington Old Hall, you will learn alot about it is linked to America

[@francescascanlan4549]

I love how the sign for Washington has the slogan “the original Washington” on the bottom- it always makes me laugh when I see it!

[@andrewdodsworth2906]

Check out the Mackem accent from Sunderland, the next city over, and Newcastles rivals. Subtle differences. This'll make the Geordies mad 😂

[@adj0191]

It certainly does we do not sound the same haha

[@Jacqueline-ts1wd]

😅I'm Sunderland always get taken for a geordie ,if I go to any other part of the country.

[@Spookysistauk]

Aye, we sound completely different, me marras. And then there’s the sanddancers different again lol

[@crustytoerag]

​@@Jacqueline-ts1wd don't feel bad mate even us teesiders do. All the north east accents are smaller but are noticeably different if you're from around here

[@deecee4250]

I had no idea gadgie meant something different in geordie 😂 in Scotland that means a dirty, chavie, minging person! Still amazes me how different dialects are over such short distances

[@dhamp_]

It's from a Romani word, "gadje", which means "non-romani".

[@deecee4250]

@@dhamp_ learn something new every day

[@janettesinclair6279]

Living in Scotland, I never think of "gadgie" as meaning a dirty scruffy person. Just a word to identify a chap or bloke (never a female) being pointed out - "see that gadgie over there".

[@rustytiger900]

You can have radgie gadgie

[@theotherside8258]

In geordieland minging means smelly as in Scotland but now a lot of the young think it means noisy/lively. They hear the words and just guess what they mean.

[@graceygrumble]

"This accent has a lot of changes..." Ironically, it is an accent which has changed so little. The great vowel shift never caught on, so the accent remained the same.

[@Juggsy87]

Geordie here and I'm loving this video haha

[@jackpearson5285]

It's important to remember that most regional English accents have existed for so much longer than the (relatively London-centric) English dictionary. So their rules are never going to seem consistent with established spelling conventions. That's not those accents being inconsistent, but rather the standardised spellings being for a different accent.

[@danielwoodgate5897]

To our American cousins accross the pond, we have many different accents in Britain and Ireland. 😊. In England, there is the West Country (Pirate accent). Northern England accents, such as Manchester called (Mancunians), Liverpool called (Scousers), Yorkshire, Newcastle called (Geordies), and more. In midlands, there is Birmingham called (Brummies) and of course you know cockneys from London. And there are many more accents.

[@tonys1636]

Were once all very strange to someone taught RP at school, now have a hybrid SE London / RP, yes I do use the silent H, 'ospital, 'otel etc. and pronounce WH as in where as HW.

[@janettesinclair6279]

Just go to Aberdeen, Orkney and Shetland, and Glasgow for a start.

[@reactingtomyroots]

Love the diversity in the accents! It's so fun.

[@danielwoodgate5897]

@@reactingtomyroots 😌😊🙏

[@emilyjayne77]

“Ayup me duck” Hello from Nottinghamshire 😂

[@alexmckee4683]

Some TV series that feature this accent heavily are "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet" (British brickies working abroad, three of them are Geordies, lots of scenes set in Newcastle) and "Vera" (detective drama, set in Newcastle and surrounds). Also if you've either of you ever watched the 80s and 90s detective drama Morse, commonly known as "Inspector Morse" in the U.S. and which was very popular in the U.S., one of the two principal characters Sergeant Lewis is a Geordie and is played Kevin Whately who played one of the main characters in "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet". After the end of "Morse", ITV went on to produce "Lewis" a long-running detective drama series featuring the now-promoted Inspector Lewis.

[@alexlewis3478]

As someone who’s been watching you for a few months, and a Geordie… I did not expect this video 😂 whey aye. Enjoy your lovely regional nuisances x

[@alexlewis3478]

Also I can assure you that she wouldn’t say four unless she was down the pits, or hugely rough 😂 exaggeration for sure!

[@EessaTube]

When I lived in London, the term of endearment was love. Now, I live in the Black Country, in the West Midlands of England and the term of endearment is bab.

[@SuperEgoNaut]

I’m surprised no-one in these comments yet has mentioned Ant & Dec 😁

[@niallrussell7184]

they did pretty good for themselves after Byker Grove.

[@MrMarkiemoo]

I'm from Newcastle (Geordieland) great to see Americans Reactions to our accent 🤣 when I was in New York people had a hard time understanding me

[@JohnAlfwynn]

I'm a North Easterner (from Consett, Co Durham) not far from Newcastle. I love your guesses at dialect/slang words and everything about you!

[@trailerman2]

Great fun Steve & Lindsay....seeing you both struggle to decide how YOU say it during the first vid had me laughing out loud ;-)

[@andysadler6432]

there is actually a geordie dictornary you can buy/view online with the whole language in it (and how to pronouce it)

[@francescascanlan4549]

My Geordie mother married my southerner dad in Newcastle. Most of their London friends had never been to Newcastle before so my parents had Geordie translation booklets on the tables for the guests lol

[@andrewobrien6671]

When Michael Aspel first met Geordies during his National Service he thought they were Hungarians

[@reggawardle4874]

Canadians thought Geordie where German speaking pigeon English..

[@sheiladavies7275]

😂

[@CarolWoosey-ck2rg]

Stupid fools😂

[@CarolWoosey-ck2rg]

Idiots 😂😂

[@CarolWoosey-ck2rg]

Idiots 😂

[@LisaClinton-ej6nq]

Hi 👋 a proud Geordie here from Gateshead 🙂 toon toon a love watching all ya videos 🌹 brilliant

[@damagedheather]

I lived in Newcastle and went to uni in Durham and I can honestly say, people from the North East are some of the best in the country. I miss it so much.

[@LeeStewart]

Wey aye man! Hello from Geordieland AKA Tyneside Love your channel! We have our own MTV programme called Geordie Shore, which is the equivalent of Jersey Shore.

[@billydonaldson6483]

The Saxon kingdom of Northumbria stretched from the River Humber to the Firth of Forth. The north east of England which is where the accent is spoken use Saxon and some Norse in their vocabulary. The Scots use similar phrasing on some words.

[@edix1673]

They spelt Twoc wrong. And it means 'Taken Without Owners Consent'

[@SnKKS]

Agreed. I wouldn't say it was specific for that region either. I live far away from Newcastle and I've heard it used over the the 40 years I've been here.

[@lottielou3167]

​@SnKKS yes it's national Take without the owners consent is a specific offence in the theft act police use acronyms all the time do it was always called TWOC, then taken up by the public from that

[@danielwoodgate5897]

Great video thank you. Geordie accent is Newcastle in North East England 😊

[@NapoleonWils0n]

Geordie football supporters are the most passionate in England even though we havent won anything in nearly 60 years

[@paulapapaconstantinou5998]

Netty is the toilet and was a leftover from the Romans when they inhabited the North East and made settlements there whilst building the famous wall and roads. Gabinetti in Italian is toilets, it was heard as 'netty' by the locals and retained as a dialect word. Gannin' to the netty=going to the toilet. My Dad was a Geordie and he and my paternal grandparents used all of these sland words and many more. Why aye!