Off Topic but can you help

[Steven Royston O'Neill]

Yes the accent gets a bit derided, but let's be honest.. when you listen to a couple of Geodies chattin' it's like Stanley Unwin talkin' to himself....

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[jerseymackem]

My grandads from South Shields and gets a bit annoyed if anyone calls him a mackem, he's a Geordie, as with most of the rest of my family. I was born in Sunderland and despite moving away when I was little over a year old, I still class myself as mackem.

Interestingly, the spellcheck on my iPod doesn't recognise mackem but it does recognise Geordie... Is Steve Jobs a closet Geordie???

 

[MackemsRule]

My grandads from South Shields and gets a bit annoyed if anyone calls him a mackem, he's a Geordie, as with most of the rest of my family. I was born in Sunderland and despite moving away when I was little over a year old, I still class myself as mackem.

Interestingly, the spellcheck on my iPod doesn't recognise mackem but it does recognise Geordie... Is Steve Jobs a closet Geordie???

He's a sanddancer then.

 

[Steven Royston O'Neill]

Geories, yackers, sand dancers, we have them all here

 

[Blind Corner]

Mr RAW, I can say categorically that you are wrong about the word "mackem " not existing until the 70's - I am 63 years old now and I can remember as a child both my father and grandfather telling me that they were called mackems by the tynesiders when they worked in the shipyards thjrough there , so it is most definitely a derogatory term aimed at the way we speak, nothing to do whatsoever with making and taking ships - what a lot of rubbish.

 

[MrRAWhite]

Mr RAW, I can say categorically that you are wrong about the word "mackem " not existing until the 70's - I am 63 years old now and I can remember as a child both my father and grandfather telling me that they were called mackems by the tynesiders when they worked in the shipyards thjrough there , so it is most definitely a derogatory term aimed at the way we speak, nothing to do whatsoever with making and taking ships - what a lot of rubbish.

I've actually done some research on this, and you are the first person who I have came across who has said they come across the term before the seventies...I agree that this making and taking ships mullarky is fiction, and I also agree that it was first used as a derogatory term aimed at the difference with our accent...

 

[CyprusMackem]

Mr RAW, I can say categorically that you are wrong about the word "mackem " not existing until the 70's - I am 63 years old now and I can remember as a child both my father and grandfather telling me that they were called mackems by the tynesiders when they worked in the shipyards thjrough there , so it is most definitely a derogatory term aimed at the way we speak, nothing to do whatsoever with making and taking ships - what a lot of rubbish.

It was used in the Shipyards of Tyne for many years before coming into a more general circulation.
When a ship was launched in Sunderland it would normally go to the Tyne to be fitted out. Many blokes (Shipwrights, fitters etc) would have to go with it. These were called Mackem's by the local workers.
It was used as a piss take on the way we say make aswell as they saw it. We were the daft buggers who did the donkey work and make (mack) the ships only for the finishing touches to be done on the Tyne.
I was told this by an old soak in "Pickies" just before he tried to stick a broom handle up my arse...Strange place to be an Apprentice, the Shipyards.

 

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Dictionary definition of Geordie.

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[TD="class: text, colspan: 2"]Usually a person who believes they are from the city of Newcastle but are infact from outlining areas such as Gateshead, Hexham and the like. These 'plastic' Geordies tend to believe they are at the top of the social scale but are in fact in the middle of the social security benefit queue. Often found in Netto or more notably Greggs upon where they feed they offspring large quantities of baked pastry goods, children are usually christened "Keegen" or "Bobby" or "Alan" regardless of their sex, this is due to their Mother and Fathers (and in many cases 'Uncle Steve' and Uncle "Jeff" and 'wor Bobbies da") lifelong devotion to Newcastle United, despite never actually being anywhere near the stadium, but the 9 kids are dressed head to foot in Black and White replica kit 7 days a week.
"Hov corse ham a Geordie man like man, me da used ta drink Broon Ale and me ma uste te werk in Fennnikks man"
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[Ryhoper1]

1. mackem 1185 up, 320 down

n. A demi-god worshipped by ancient civilisations as the epitome of wit and sexual prowess. Romans and Vikings colonised the area in the hope of developing a race of supermen to help them in their ambitions. The word is based on a blend of Roman and Norse, and means "astonishingly well-endowed, funny and attractive angel on a temporary visit from Valhalla."

Not to be confused with Geordie who were the unfortunate result of a Roman experiment in which Scotsmen had intercourse with pigs. These unfortunate troll-like humanoids can be identified by the fact they have to wear clothes covered in a large barcode so they can be tracked and controlled by security satellites.
My goodness, that John Holmes is almost as well-hung as a Mackem.

 

[Vincemac]

i first heard the term mackem around 1988 and i first thought it came from laurie mackmenamee who was the manager i now realise i was wrong