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Subject: RE: [OM] Common language, was Cleaning Old Price Tag Goo Off Body
From: "James N. McBride" <jnmcbr@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 11:59:57 -0600
Thanks Roger,  It's fun stuff.  /jim

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[mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Roger Wesson
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Aha, Geordie!  This page gives a brief taster:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/tyne/student/lingo.shtml

If you want to learn more there's a book called 'Larn Yersel Geordie' 
which will have you conversing with real Geordies in no time!

It's an interesting dialect actually, lots of very old Anglo-Saxon words 
as well as some influence from Welsh (apparently the North-East used to 
be populated by Welsh speakers, and certainly the accents are not 
dissimilar), and quite a lot from Old Norse.  Nightmarish for outsiders 
to understand though, that's for sure.

Roger

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