Southerners Try To Guess Geordie Slang 

Was about to comment that. Cheers!

Made me laugh

Yee, gan hyem

Wey ay man

I'm a Londoner and I still died a little inside at that

Howaye ga hyme and git down on ya honkers ye wee little thing (this was a joke I do not usually speak like this)

Shauna L Smedley deffo a mackem yee

pissing meself

Canit forgett brickin windows

Am a Geordie in all

Reading punching police horses made me SCREAM

I'm not even English and this pained me ntl

Same here

Right

I’m Geordie but me family are Mackems, trying to teach a Canadian the differences between the 2 accents this is painful

@@emmacresswell7012 HAHAHAHAHA omg bless

Liv Herman .

Why the f do i have a Cockney accent! Ugh!

North East

i’m both

It's an old term, we don't use it anymore unless you're old school, also never in me life have i said honkers for knees, never even heard that term. They should have used a word like Radgie or something "whew he's a pure radgie" 🤣

Mac ay exactly i mean me granda says it put it’s not modern at all

@@nevebenson3263 Nah mate, i cringe when i say it haha

Mac they should’ve used akka that’s better than radgie😂

@@serena1174 As in "he went pure akka!"? I say that all the time lol didn't think it was that well known 🤣 pure akka buzzi haha

hahahahaah was thinking the same

scumfvcker willne doesn’t even sound Geordie

Patrick Bateman he still has a bit of an accent, just not as strong because he moved down south.

@@Fisky-ww6ee he was born in Newcastle

mycamrenheart - fuck me same

Our culture is just fucking factories and parties tbh.

@@moody1965 Fucking factories sound fun.

@@booshank2327 Aye go to the toon and gan to bijou or tup tups mate

Danish too, and it's Hem in Swedish. We're more Scandinavian than English, and I'm fine with that.

Actually, just the main feature of the Geordie accent, the way we say the sounds 'ay' and 'o' sound Scandinavian. They even have a letter for the way we and they pronounce the o in 'go' - å. In fact, go in Swedish, Norwegian and Danish is 'gå' and sounds like a geordie saying 'go'. There are loads of vocabulary examples, like bairn. Child is barn in Norwegian/Swedish/Danish. The glottal stop pronounced WITH not instead of a consonant like in 'happy' is a feature of Danish (I'm told). My favourite is a word my granddad used to say, don't know if it's still used. If someone or an animal looked like it might have fleas he'd call it 'loppy'. "Gerra wash, man. You look loppy." I just thought of this as being Geordie till I discovered 'loppa' is Swedish for 'flea'. So it's obviously a Viking import. The word, not the fleas! 🤣

@@blotski All correct fella! Another popularly used Geordie word is “Lass”, derived from the Norse “Laskura” which means “Unmarried Woman” 😁 I still use loppy as well ahahaha

Contrary to common belief Northumberland and Durham were never part of the Danelaw, which has more to do with modern Yorkshire and the East Midlands and never went north of Tees. While there are some Danish words in Geordie (though less than in the Yorkshire dialect) 'hyem', in fact, comes from the old English 'hām' and is deductable by a common sound change of /ā/ > /ye/, hence we have 'styen' for 'stone' (old English: stān)

@@dunelmian-slinger Northumbria as a Kingdom during the 9th to 11th centuries spanned from Edinburgh down to Deira (York), and from Whithorn to Bamburgh (Lindisfarne) left to right, Because of the Danelaw being in practice from Durham to London slashing the country apart, people North of the border also corresponded to these laws and their practices as the Saxons, Danes and Norse were all at war with the Picts during that time and that's not something you'd want to be sandwiched between haha!

whyyy

Ay I agree

@Zouch i hate karens but i felt offended watching this

Marra is also a Geordie word

@@emmacresswell7012 No it isn't. Geordie here.

I’m a Geordie I’ve always used it.

@@Zooumberg I’m Geordie, I use it 🤷‍♀️

@@Amber-md8ut It isn't common. It is in Sunderland.

exactly

It's hunkers.

@@alancarney4344 Ah yeah I didnt get that one either and im geordie but yeah hunkers makes sense but def not 'honkers'

Born and bread Geordie nd have never heard that in my life 😂 different generations use different slang words, kids these days don't use Geordie phrases from the 60s 😂

I am a Geordie in my 60's and we used to use this term but don't here it so much now.

Hyem is mackum yhem is geordie

In Norwegian it's hjem. Means the same.

Bookofwords how old are you? And where in Newcastle are you from? I’ve said it loads of times but I may be older than you.

@@lil-g4879 24, felling

Bookofwords that’s probably why mate, we used to say it a while ago, I’m 42. I wouldn’t say it now but I don’t live up there anymore.

I'm 24 and from Newcastle. We used to say 'so n so is me bezzie marra' back in middle school haha. Beyond cringy like. Other half is from Gateshead too and he's never really heard it or used it

@@megsy99 aye? It's very new information to me haha, my step nans an ex-biker lass and my grandad has a thicker accent than even me and I've never even heard them say it either

Same

exactly it's an ancient dialect that comes from Northumbrian Old English, among other North East English, Lowland Scottish and Cumbrian dialects. It's not street slang

We do get around with flat caps and horse and carts????

Northumberlands the Geordie place outside toon, I can never think of a quieter more remote place, Only big shops being Hexham & Ashington like

@@ThatAviationGeek123 have you ever actually been to Northumberland!!!?

You've probably never been outside the boundaries of Sunderland, if you think that.

Don't know any pals that say Marra 😂 neither do they say honkers for knees, these slang words must be out dated.

P4u1FVideos 1 its more mackem tbh

P4u1FVideos 1 u fuckin broken lad ya clearly not a geordie

Really? I say weyaye all the time 😂 so do pretty much all my family and friends, perhaps the posh wankers don't say it but I'm pretty sure 90% of geordies do.

Mac aye that kids got no clue what he’s talking about probs not even a Geordie

@@willsheen2102 More than likely kidda haha

There is actually

There is if you're from Sunderland. It comes from Nordic languages (hjem is home in both Swedish and Norwegian).

I always use Tmarra or something like that

@@zapatron1939 yeah you can say tmarra or marra they are the same thing :)

Marra it's mate in Northumberland. The morn is tomorrow. It's mad how different parts say different things when we're not that far from each other

I know what you mean mate. I'm a "Sandancer" but to everyone else in the country, I'm a "Geordie" I just can't be bothered to explain it anymore, so I just accept the ignorance.

more of a mackem thing tbh

Liv Herman comes from danish/Norse ‘hjem’ so you can see it translated often as ‘Hyem’

@Gísiu Wulf our region were anglos anyway so from the danish-german border but yeah not norse. Anyway point is I believe the old English word had a h in anyway?

@@MegaUsaname the vikings came awa here after the saxons and sorta mixed for a bit, that's where yem and bairn and other stuff comes from

Yeah, Southerners probably think that. I'd probably not be very good at slang from different regions in the South.

Wey gateshead was. And the miners went to the shipyards in newcastle and on the gateshead side to transport the coal via ship.

propa kernts

Also say ken. For house

@@davenufc55 that's more scottish, another word we use for house is gaff though

@@Oxley016 am from Newcastle av never said gaff always ken or hyem

@@davenufc55 nar mate ken is proper scottish and don't know how old you are but us young'ns say gaff a fair bit

@@Oxley016 21 pal. Guess everyone speaks different tho don't they

Just Ask Tavi are you familiar at all with English geography tho?

@@inlonging: If she's American, she'll struggle with Geography, full stop. 😉

Most of them, aren't even "Geordies"

We do, it just depends where you & the people around you are from.

There are books you can buy, especially Learn Yourself Geordie

Ever seen a mackem in Milan

have ya ever seen a Mackem throw a good punch? nah Marra

Slowandhightempo ya saying it’s alreet if tha lunch is canny tha, nor marra, animal abuse and got sent te tha cells for it sa dirty geordies just lunnies really

@@ellabreeze871 1) I never said it was okay to hit a horse - it's not. 2) What I am suggesting is that the only reason a mackem hasn't is because they are physically incapable of punching - that's saying mackems are shit not that animal abuse is okay. 3) wanna try that again in English, pet?

Slowandhightempo why get in tha bin ye loon

numba 1 sella of tac to bairns

Katelynn Leigh I use it for the Moro.

@@sarahfrances3744 yeah but no one says it for "mate" lol

Mackems

Means friend

Katelynn Leigh i say it sometimes and I’m a Geordie

Really? Are you sure you're a Geordie mate? 🤔

You can't be a Geordie if you do not know the terms used, especially hyem.

Nah that's on ur honkers

@@davenufc55 Then again, I do live in County Durham. We probably say things different here.

Nah geordie aswell lad

@@davenufc55 Aye I've heard some Geordies use it but tend to find them saying mate. Here in Durham you get a bit of both like.

Most geordie comment here!

You're not a real "Geordie" then, simple as.....

Yes, not a real Geordie