We ran a story in the Evening Chronicle concerning Ant and Dec. It seems the yanks are keen to have them and their new show, but not their Geordie dialect, which they say is too hard to understand.
Reading this I began to think about real Geordie and started wondered how much of it has disappeared over the years in the wake of mass communication and 24 hour TV.
My interest was even furthered when one of my colleagues struggled in to work, umbrella in hand, soaking wet from during a rainstorm.
"I happened to say, jokingly: "Had fun plodging in?"
Plodging, now there's a Geordie word.
How many Geordie words have disappeared over the years?
I distinctly remember, when I was younger (yes, I was younger once), being told that when I bump into a load of old mates, within two minutes I have turned to broad Geordie.
I wonder how many people that happens to and, also, are we losing all those lovely descriptive Geordie words such as clarts (mud), gallowers (horses), gannin (going), howay (come along), hoose (house) and so on.
What's your favourite Geordie word and do you think the Geordie accent and language should be kept alive?
As for Ant and Dec, I'm sure the story was more for publicity than fact, because I can't believe the yanks don't understand their brand of Geordie-speak
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