Geordie

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.