You know when it's really freezing round here when the lads are wearing two T-shirts ☺

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Agreed. You'll remember Scott Jobson's book "Larn Yersel Geordie". He even, in his own way, goes into "dialects of the Geordie language" and points out the use of "thee" in County Durham - something the older generation of my family used consistently.

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​@@henryblunt8503Yes l remember it, sure it was available in the Geordie Jean shop. In Sunderland it was originally in Olive Street.

@@bernadettemurray8260 I bought a copy from Dressers in Darlington as a present for my Dad. It was everywhere in the NE, thanks in large part to George House and Mike Neville. RIP guys.

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I hope this is a joke, because London was originally called after an ancient British chief named Lud, Dun Lud. The Romans called it Londinium, a thousand years before the Normans.

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i like your humour son

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I've heard that 🥰 Thank you Gary! I'm a Geordie... have you heard the expression 'being sent to Coventry'? 🤔

@@RachaelMorgan-om4xw yes I have! Why? It means people not talking to you

@@garyrigby21 Correct! I found out why, when I went there myself, to Drama School. Evryone was Cov, except me. So I got a lot of kidding.. well, drama students are not known for being catty. But that wasn't it, so much it was things like, at a bus stop, I asked the woman already waiting if there was a bus due... she totally stepped away from me. I was mystified. These things kept occurring. I was there for two years, and I have family there, but Covs are/were then xenaphobic 🤫

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Ya a lang way from hyem. I went to school at South STreet School and had lunch at Shipcote School in the 60's remember a few shops from Deckham.

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people just sometimes stereo type us geordies but we are a canny species very welcoming and approachable well the majority are every where ive been in this country i always find a geordie and there always good people

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And Brian Johnson acdc front man from Dunston gateshead

Gateshead is defo still geordie land, I have loads of mates from Gateshead and I will wind them up and say they are from the wrong side of the Tyne but it’s just banter. I’m from walker and I can stand down the riverside literally meters away from Gateshead, my geo location on my phone actually always puts me in hebburn, I used to work in Gateshead and always wished there was a bridge from walker or wallsend over to Gateshead and even thought about getting a rowing boat 🚣‍♀️ 😂

I love telling my hubby (Born Gateshead) he's not a true Geordie.... it's only a bit of fun but I suppose it's time I stopped......maybe 😂

@@patmillar961 He's a dilluted Geordie. 🤣

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I was born in Newcastle, but grew up in the coal mining village of Seghill.. Growing up we were told that you could claim to be a Geordie only if you could walk out into your back garden...and spit in the Tyne. 😀😃😄😊😆

@@christinecatt5391 of course that excludes everyone 😂

I like your explanation and there was a rivalry concerning the lamps, I find it very convincing. The wire mesh fire screen was a bit different if I remember correctly. The Davy lamp eventually won out. There is a story behind the rise of iron making in London which is very interesting.

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But.. He can call you a southerner..

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Thank you Phillipa 😊

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Cheers Nick. I’ve actually tightened up on this topic even more since I released this video. There’s not a shred of evidence that suggests we were called Geordies, or referred to as ‘George’s Men’ during the time of the Jacobites. In addition it doesn’t actually make any sense since the soldiers of Newcastle didn’t face the Jacobites in battle, unlike Preston for example.

@@TynesideLife. Good bit of research underpinning it too then, excellent. I'm an academic so I'm super picky about that kind of thing, and you convinced me. Looking forward to seeing more 🙂

@@nickcooke5749 cheers Nick 🙏 Did you know the ‘Mackems’ were referred to as Geordies until around the early 80’s? 😮

@@TynesideLife. Horrifying! Haha! I think you've got a real flair for the history stuff mate. Well argued, well presented, and well written. Not a huge amount of local history on KZfaq so it's good to see.

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I’m glad you’re enjoying the videos Ian 😆

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That’s a shame as it’s myth. He was definitely a Geordie 🤛🏻

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Cheers Brian 👍🏻 You’re in the right ball park but our slang comes from the other Germanic languages of Denmark and Norway and were brought across during the Viking invasions and settlements.

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Hi Mo, thanks for your great message! Of course, as I hope I articulate in this video, there’s actually no such thing as a ‘true Geordie’, only cultural trends that gave no distinct boundaries. As with all nicknames, there are many associated with the same areas. We’re all Tyneside’s, Geordies, Sand dancers, pit yakkers etc etc. you are what you identify yourself to be Mo and nobody has the right to correct it otherwise 👍🏻

@@TynesideLife I have to agree with the fella above my grandfather was from his part of the world and I never heard him class himself has a geordie.

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Born a Sanddancer, me Dad always told us I was a Geordie, while some of the folk songs I was taught came from Durham. Great video.

I just call myself a Sanddancer these days, and I have done for years.

@@ColinH1973 we can identify ourselves anyway we wish Colin, that’s the beauty. Nobody gets to decide.

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That’s exactly right Alan. Prior to the 80’s, those from Sunderland were referred to as Geordies

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Invented in someone’s imagination Tony 😃 I’ve learned a lot more since I released this video

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My Uncle George who was born in Durham city, lived in Stanley and worked at Beamish Mary colliery before transferring to Wearmouth colliery. He was always known as Geordie all his life.

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@@TynesideLife think we're all claimming for a full series on geordie history mate 🤞🙌👏 great effort

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Cheers Ian. Yes, the ‘support’ for King George appears to have been taken completely out of context and romanticised.

You’ve basically summed up the video Lee, that’s basically where the term came from

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that hospital was special, it only delivered babies nothing else, my son was born there and his sister was born at rake lane, chalk and cheese,

Didn't the Davy lamp originate in Hebburn?

Well said Christina

Christina do you still have your accent? A friend of my husband has visited over Xmas from Texas having married a Texan girl. He has an accent but over the days he has been here his Geordie is becoming broader.

@@heatherboardman7004 well I don’t think I have much of a geordie accent but whenever I say that my American friends burst out laughing. Whenever I go back to England my accent comes flooding back lol.

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Each to their own, even though I've lived in Cramlington most of my life I'm not a Northumbrian, I'm not from Devon or Surrey, I was born in Newcastle General Hospital I'm 100% Geordie

@@DarthDainese i see everyone from south shields to hexham gateshead to blyth northumberland all geordies even durham and redcar all get called geordies

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Great message Steve

One thing you forgot to mention about George's ascension to the throne was that James II was deposed because of his favouritism toward Catholics. When Queen Anne died, George was something like 54th in line, but all before him were Catholics and weren't considered. The slamming of the gates against the Jacobites was more likely for religious and political reasons rather than support of George I. Also, James, the Old Pretender, was the son of James II.

@@keithdimmick3475 thanks Keith. As I mentioned at the beginning of the video, this wasn’t going to be an in-depth history video and that I was only going to touch on the broad points so as to align the content with the Geordie story.

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Yep you’re both Jessica 😊

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Ahh I won’t be there for that one Raymond unfortunately

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And of course you are Andrew 😆

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It’s very interesting how local communities make up their own versions of what a Geordie is and isn’t. Those local communities will all claim to have the right answer but they’re all made up in someone’s imagination. Of course, with social identity, it’s fluid, with no known origin and nobody owns the term, or has the right to decide someone else’s heritage. If you identify as a Geordie, then you are 🤷🏻‍♂️ whether you’re from Ashington, Jarrow, North Shields or Durham. From my extensive research on this topic, the early Geordies were (probably) pitmen who used the Geordie lamp, but we’ll never truly know. Painful as it may be, people from Sunderland were also known as Geordies until around the early 80’s.

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I talk about it in the video

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You are a geordie

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In my view, if you identify as being a Geordie, then you are. I do. There is no definitive criteria for being a Geordie and anything you hear has been invented in someone else’s imagination 👍🏻

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I'm from Shipley, near Bradford. My mother was from Bradford, with some Irish in her, and my Dad came from County Durham, near Bishop Auckland, with some Irish in him I love having both Yorkshire and Durham in me.

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I can always rely on you to articulate the purposes of my videos Graham. It’s appreciated 🙏

@@TynesideLife Hi Eddy 👋I speak as I find, and that's it, nothing more.....Another top video. Enjoy the Fulham game ⚽️. Howay the Geordie faithful! & get behind your team 👊