Guinevere of Mason
@JHCPAL
All things historical & geographical. Reads. Runs. Art. Words.Coal. Turnips. Kyes. Spelks. Disappears down NE 🐇🕳️, some v niche indeed. Shy bairns get nowt!
I post NE dialect, history, old things & anything that interests me. I have eclectic tastes in art but especially like "northern, grim, industrial". I reply to much Brexit & women's rights though rarely post those here. Owner of a very dry sense of humour.
My thread on pit heaps.... New Followers; OED - the Oxford English Dictionary aka the font of all knowledge. OE - Old English. You'd be speaking that from the 5th to 12th century. 🤣 Some NE words are OE, like gan. It's not slang or "just the accent". It's a very old word!
Pit heap, slag heap, bing, pit tip....all words used in posts sent today....so to investigate : Bing - 'northern' says OED - a heap or pile of stones, earth, trees, bodies (!) as well as corn, potatoes etc....also applied to metallic/lead ore..& coal. It's ......Norse! 😉
I do like a pit heap.......so do a lot of you. This is a good one.
A Newburn view of the Percy Pit Heap
"gan to Callers to get new table" "eh? Gan ta Parashiz on Shields Road man" JT Parish, was like a scene from are you being served
Slightly ruder, but we would laugh that a Toad was a Turd whereas a Turd would be a Tord
A guy from Ashington used to drink in the pub in Whitley Bay, his favourite band was Counting Crows which he pronounced "Coontn Craaaas".
Byker means "settlement by the marsh". Walker is "marsh by the wall". "Ker" being from the Old Norse kjarr, marsh. I like a 'ker' (or carr as they are called) as regular readers will testify. There are a lot about when you look...& I do.
Byker 1970s
Playing oot Newcastle west end 1970s Tish Murtha’s excellent photography
My thread on what was found in pit heaps......and a man who deserves to be remembered. Those fossils at the Hancock (as was) on that school trip ....Newsham pit & Thomas Atthey.
⬇️...in a pit heap. Someone did. At Newsham. Thomas Atthey. Quite well known at the time though now forgotten. Born at Kenton in 1815. As a boy went down the pit. Not for long though,he became a corve maker. His passion was wildlife & he spent much time at Prestwick Carr..🧵
My thread on staiths ......a bit of Norse hiding in plain sight.
Guinevere's Dialect Compendium Staithes. OED - a landing stage/wharf & especially a waterside depot for coals. Recorded 1338. ONLY found "where Scandinavian influence is strong." NE, Yorks & Norfolk. It's another "bank" ! Unknown elsewhere... Mind blown.
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Geordie AA man: ‘Is your car ower heatin’? Stricken motorist: ‘Nah man, it’s in Byker’. 😉
This. ⬇️.
South of Tyne should not be confused with Wearside. Very different accents. Eg Voices from Gateshead Felling Pelaw Hebburn Jarrow & South Shields have particular nuances to distinguish them & then things change more the closer you get to Sunderland & further south.
New followers ! I do these as well. I did one every day for months, but not recently. Awaiting inspiration to strike....( suggestions welcome, but if it's south of the Tyne you'll need to tell me how to say it first !) Here is Amble for @mysuperstan
Guinevere's guide to pronouncing Northumbrian place names like a local. Amble. More tricky than Ashington!! I say it with the "a" as in apple. However an Ambletonian would be more like "Airrmble" - said with a closed throat & a horizontal mouth. It's very hard to describe...
Anyone ? I can't do "south of the Tyne" as it's very different. Most of you know I am from a farm in Nth Tyneside but live in the SE. I can do most of Northumberland & "urban" north side of the Tyne but I can only venture across the river when told what the words are first !
Was once told that the way you could tell someone was from Sunderland was they say "weese keys are these keys". I hope that's true.
Please add one that my sister is fond of; “See ya’s layter”.
Now, I witter on about dragging my long suffering children around and pointing things out. Here is an excellent example ⬇️.
Coastal folding.