Brilliant mate! A lot of this is new to me like ....... Durham slang is nowt like this coarse Mackem shyte
I take it it's no coincidence that the guy alleged to have hockled down the back of a buggy driver in London was asked what hockle was
I have mates, in the Shotton area, who still use that old 'biblical' style of speech where they address each other as thee & thou. A few miles, in the NE, can make a big difference to how people speak. Us kids, in Durham, thought people from Sunderland & Newcastle were weird and couldn't understand half of what they said. I was talking about this to family in Chopwell recently who speak differently despite us being born in the same hospital, Shotley Bridge. People from 'over the river' would roll their R's which I loved ....... the nearer the coast, the harsher the accent. Mackem was like the hammers in the shipyards to us, very clipped and direct whereas our accent was softer and more lyrical.
I'm from Bishop area and they say that. 13 miles in Darlington it's a completely different accent. Mad init.
Worra ye taakin 'boot, man, Smug . . . . aam from the curst and aa havven even gorran accent, nivva mind a harshun
Hell Smug that brings back some memories Shotley Bridge hospital, playing in a river with our lass when we were 20 and I stood on a broken bottle whipped the pad off the bottom of my foot and split my big toe in two halves showed our lass it and the next time I saw her she was 3 fields away ( soft ****e ) my mate took me to the hospital had the pad stitched back on and 22 stitches in my big toe Eee! I did laugh.
If we came back from school and repeated anything the more northern kids said we'd get a clout. We'd say 'ower' and if we said 'wor' it would be a clout.
I had a completely different accent to my dad like. Never got a clout for it. I should have been clouting him some of his lazy speech.
They still use the thee, thou and thine terms in Murton, but the accent changes totally when you go the few miles to Seaham who talk more like us civilised folk from Ryhope..The accent of those from Hendon, Southwick etc is different again..
Its class this. Fletch's effort at "hockle in a hair" wasn't bad at all. Couple I'd never heard, think it was clamped and can't remember the other
Class, is it available commercially? i've seen the geordie dictionary but never a mackem dictionary. Would come in handy where i work cos they haven't a clue what inset half the time.
Booby Thompson to me had the best Mackem accent " a was on the phurn to Churchhill like yer knaw and he said "ow Bobby how yer deeing can yer gedown here and sort these jurmans out like. Me mother said things like Sarada (Saturday) cordon I. Hatta matta had a strange accent as well.
