🧑‍🦰 A Newcastle person 🗣️ A Newcastle dialect

Geordie

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A way of speaking English that people use in Newcastle and nearby areas

noun
/ˈdʒɔːdi/

: dialecto geordie

She started Geordie's impression of me as a Geordie.

Examples

How's the Americans got on with your Geordie accents?
How's the Americans got on with your Geordie accents?
That's Geordie, man.

The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)
A group of old friends from the coal mining days sits in the plaza, slipping into Geordie, the dialect from the Tyneside region, as they commiserate.
In Goal!, Anna Friel, playing the Newcastle United club physician, does what could charitably be called a decent Geordie accent.
His accent, like the WPCs, was thick and local - Geordie.

Surface Forms

Geordie singular

Geordies plural

Morphology

Geordie = George (opaque) = geord + ie

Although the form uses a diminutive ending, the sense 'the local dialect' is a cultural/linguistic label not predictable from the name base.

Etymology

The word Geordie for the local dialect comes from the same nickname for people of Newcastle, so the name of the people became the name of their way of speaking. That's why Geordie now means the accent and words used around Newcastle.