Introduction
Location in the North East
Location in the U.K.
TeesSpeak:An Urban Dialect
words: alley to bleb
words : bogie to butterloggy
words:-cack-handed to clammin
words:-Clarry to dut
words:-eariewig to get
words:-Geordie to knackin'
words: lace- -mozz
words: mell- -mozz
words:nab to parmo
words: parkin to rully
words:sackless to Stee-as
words: steelie to tungie
words:village to youse
Regional Stereotypes
Gravel Voiced Gadgies
Nowt by Gob
East Cleveland
East Cleveland Dialect
East Cleveland Dialect 2
Teessiders' Origins
Smoggy
Norman Connections
Discussion Page
Northern Dialect Societies
From both ends of the Tees
Local History Sources
On Not Being a Geordie
Then and Now
Familiar Places with Strange Sounding Names
BBC VOICES PROJECT Listen to Teessiders
On Being Canny
Middlesbrough's Language & Identity
The Iron Miners
Links for Lower Tees Dialect Group
Guestbook
Mail Form
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North Country Dialect Societies
 | Northumbrian Language Society
Membership & Subscriptions
Miss H Dickson
95 Rosalind Street
Ashington
Northumberland
NE63 9BW
General Enquiries
Mrs K Bibby-Wilson
Westgate House
Dogger Bank
Morpeth
Northumberland
NE61 1RE
Tel: 01670 513308 |
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Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group
secretary
Tom Richardson
tel. 0191 513 1298
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Lakeland Dialect Society
Secretary
Mrs Jean Scott-Smith,
Gale View
Main Street
Shap
Penrith
CAIO 3NH
Treasurer
Mr. J. K. Holmes
3 River View
Stainburn
Workington
CA14 1SR
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Lower Tees Dialect Group
Co-ordinator
Vic Wood
3 Home Farm Cottages
Yearby
Redcar
TS11 8HQ |
Lancashire Dialect Society
30 Thirlmere Drive
Withnell
Chorley
Lancashire
PR6 8AY |
Yorkshire Dialect Society
Secretary
51 Stepney Avenue
Scarborough
North Yorkshire
YO12 5BW
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East Riding Dialect Society
Secretary
Mrs D Putnam,
19 Old Road,
Welton,
Brough,
East Riding of Yorkshire,
HU15 1NU.
Tel: 01482 666651
Treasurer
Mr D Bemrose,
3 Clarence Avenue,
Bridlington,
East Riding of Yorkshire,
YO15 3DW.
Tel: 01262 673995.
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Survey of Yorkshire Dialect Sites
A very useful comprehensive survey and review of Yorkshire Dialect sites. |
Yorkshire Dialect Poems
Yorkshire Dialect Poems from 1673 to 1915.
Compiled by F.W. Moorman, Professor of English Language at Leeds University |
Northern Accents on't Net
A British Library web-site. Sound samples of speakers throughout the North Country recorded by Leeds University in the 1950s and by the BBC in the 1998/1999 |
Harvard World-wide English Dialects
A very useful register of dialect sites throughout the English speaking world |
Yorkshire Dialect Site
This is a comprehensive site full of historical detail. Sound samples of dialects spoken in Yorkshire and an informative discussion of the differences between the North and East Ridings on one side and the West Riding on the other. All this and much much more. An essential visit for anyone interested in the dialects of England's biggest county. |
Pooly Werds
Hartlepool shares most of its dialect words with the rest of the wider Tees-side area. However it does seem also to have one or two of its own. Alf Sterling has created a fun site of Pooly-werds,expressions and peculiarities of Pooly pronunciation. |
Scots Dictionary Online
The Scots Language is not to be confused with Gaelic the Celtic language which was introduced to Scotland in the 6th century by Irish colonizers who settled initially in the Western Isles and Argyll. (Argyll means ‘land of the Gaels’) . It was this Irish ‘tribe’ the Scots who gave their name to the whole country. Irish and Scots Gaelic are still mutually intelligible.
Scots is a variant of English However it is not merely a regional variation of an English resulting from the country’s 1701 union with England. It was introduced by Anglo-Saxons who settled the south east of Scotland around the same time as the Gaels arrived in the west and, therefore, has just as much ‘historical authenticity’ as a native language of Scotland as has Gaelic.
It is relevant to the dialects of the English North Country because, like them, it evolved from the language of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria, which, at the height of its power, stretched from the River Humber to the Firth of Forth..
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