Geordie is the dialect and accent of English spoken in Newcastle upon Tyne and the surrounding Tyneside conurbation of North East England, sometimes stretched to cover neighboring parts of Northumberland and County Durham. Roughly 800,000 people were estimated to speak it in the early 2000s, across communities including Gateshead, Jarrow, North and South Shields and Tynemouth, and the dialect is often reported by outside listeners as one of the hardest varieties of English to understand. Distinguishing traits include t-glottalization, the absence of the foot-strut vowel split found in most other English varieties, and a local vocabulary of words such as gan, bairn, howay and netty that mark the dialect apart from standard British English.
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RegionNewcastle upon Tyne and the wider Tyneside area of North East England, sometimes extended to neighboring Northumberland and County Durham 1 Speaker Communityroughly 800,000 speakers in the early 2000s across Newcastle, Gateshead, Jarrow, North and South Shields, Whitley Bay and Tynemouth 1 Distinguishing Featurest-glottalization, realizing /t/ as a glottal stop in positions such as button; absence of the foot-strut split, so cut and put share the same vowel; a distinctive local vocabulary including gan for go, bairn for child, howay as an exclamation of encouragement, and netty for toilet 1 Classification
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The Geordie dialect is often considered unintelligible to many other native English speakers.
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Geordie is the dialect and accent of English spoken in Newcastle upon Tyne and the surrounding Tyneside conurbation of North East England, sometimes stretched to cover neighboring parts of Northumberland and County Durham.
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