Whare de yea belang?

A Dictionary of North East Dialect

Bill Griffiths

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English

McNidder & Grace
01 August 2024

Dialect, slang & jargon; Social & cultural history

Abackabeyont, bait-poke, cracket, drucken, etten, fettle, guissie pigs, hoy, inbye, jowl, kist, lonnin, marra, nyen, plote, queen-cat, reckling, skinch, tew, upcast, vine, willok, yem, zookers!

If you enjoy finding out about dialect words how and where and when they were used and where they came from this is the best guide to help you explore the world of North East dialect.

Until the 20th century, dialect was a marker of economic, social and cultural change. We know that the North East maritime connections with the Dutch led to the introduction of many 'new' words. The Scottish influence of the keelmen (fisherman) on the Tyne and their effect on local language was much more radical. Although the Tyneside dialect and identity and this way of speaking is fast waning, the popularity of discovering this language and dialect shows there is still a great interest in the languages and dialect of the past.

AUTHOR: The late Bill Griffiths was a poet, scholar, archivist, pianist, historian as well as a champion of the North East, its people and heritage. Born in Middlesex, he read history before graduating in 1969. Bill ran his own independent press and published political pamphlets and essays on the arts and poetry. After gaining a PhD in Old English he left London and settled in Seaham where he embraced the northern way of life.

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A complete dictionary of the North East Dialect compiled over many years of research, for people interested in dialect and language from UK and overseas as well as locals to the North East of England .

Other titles in the series include Stotty 'n' Spice Cake: Stories and traditional recipes of North East Cooking and

Pitmatic: Stories and the Talk of the North East Coalfield

By: Bill Griffiths
Imprint: McNidder & Grace
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9780857162700
ISBN 10: 0857162705
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 01 August 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Born into a distinguished musical family in Middlesex, Bill trained as a classic pianist, before studying History at University College, London. Later, he completed a Doctorate in Saxon Literature at Kings College, University of London. He was at least a scholar, archivist, translator, pianist, historian as well as a distinguished poet, described recently by one national newspaper as 'Great Britain's least known major poet', and his poetry was included in the influential Oxford University Press Anthology of 20th Century British and Irish Verse. He was also a prolific author and had 67 separate entries in the Cambridge University Library. In the 1990's, Bill moved from London to the North East, where he took up residence in Seaham. He chose the North East to aid his studies into Old English, and was fascinated by the continuation of Old English in North East dialects. He quickly re-invigorated serious scholarship on regional dialect, and within a short period had published three important books on the subject to include 'A Dictionary of North East Dialect', 'Stotty 'n' Spice Cake: The Story of North East Cooking' and 'Pitmatic: The Talk of the North East Coalfields'. Bill was also a key player in the local history scene, and wrote numerous small books and articles about the Durham Coalfield area, particularly Seaham. Colleague and friend Dr Bill Lancaster, Head of the Centre for Northern Studies, Northumbria University, said: ""Bill had a genius for carrying out serious scholarship of international quality which also had an appeal to a popular audience. He has been the first scholar in a long time to treat North East dialect with a seriousness of purpose, and this has contributed greatly to the renaissance of North East regional culture over the last decade or so.""

Reviews for Whare de yea belang?: A Dictionary of North East Dialect

'A seminal dictionary of North East dialect', Independent. 'A vivid guide, not only to the distinctive vocabulary of the North East, but also the ways in which dialect words contain echoes of the long history of the region and its people,' Professor Keith Wrightson