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Dictionary Last Updated Feb 1999
Alreet lads an lasses. Welcome
to The English to Geordie translator. But whats a Geordie you may be
asking yourself, the site Geordie
Passions is a scrap book of Geordie culture which will help explain
more, but in essence its them canny fowk from the North East of England
sometimes wrongly mistaken for Scots or Irish to the unaquainted. A site
about the late Bobby
Thompson with some Real Audio clips are examples of Spoken Geordie
Certain phrases are converted quite well, but the translator simply
cannot cope with parts of the dialect such as putting the words
"Man" , "Like" and "Ye knaa's" anywhere in a sentence
and the fact that we really have a different way of expressing things.
By the way, the use of "Man" is not restricted to sex, lasses
and wifies use the word "man" when refering to each other.
Examples.
| Geordie |
English |
| How man mutha man. |
Please mother don't embarass me. |
| Ye knaa what ah mean leik. |
Do you know what I mean? |
| Eeeh man, ahm gannin te the booza. |
OK, I have had enough, I am going to the bar.
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| Hoy yer hamma ower heor hinny. |
Pass me the hammer darling. |
| Whees i' the netty? |
Who's in the lavatory? |
| Gan canny or we'll dunsh summick. |
Be careful or we will crash into something.
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Simply enter plain English text in the box below. At the end of each
paragraph make sure you enter a carrage return (Enter key). Its a bit
parky on punctuation, we will fix that.
Press Translate to convert to the Geordie
dialect.
SEEN FROM
Capt Kens Web Site BY VERY KIND PERMISSION OF SIMON NEWELL
Visit his site, it is massive, and great fun. "Geordie
Pride"
Mail to
info@geordie.org.uk |