The Last Journey review – Sweden’s Ant and Dec hit the road with octogenarian dad
Do they also have a Norwegian* accent?
*That is what Geordie is, really…..
The Last Journey review – Sweden’s Ant and Dec hit the road with octogenarian dad
Do they also have a Norwegian* accent?
*That is what Geordie is, really…..
Someone told me recently that the word “hoy” as in “oi mate, hoy us me fags” is about the same word in Norwegian.
Also, that would be a fascinating sentence to say in front of an American.
When I lived in Geordieland I heard many times that the fishermen could crack on with the blokes from the other side. It didn’t surprise me.
“Gannin'” as in going is, I think, a direct loan word as well….
And, of course, “bloke” should be “blerk”. Sid the Sexist is definitive. Best Geordie phrase I ever heard: “Divvent twist yer feace at me bonny lad or ah’ll fuckin’ knack yer.”
feint memory of “Pitmatic” a dialect used down the mines that used quite a lot of Norwegian.
“Bairn”, Geordie for a wee child, is also the same in modern Danish
The phoneme set in Swedish is almost identical to many northern English accents. Norwegian has a sound that I can only describe as somewhere between ‘ery’ and ‘ory’ but a single syllable with the ‘r’ mostly-swallowed (written øy IIRC), which is present in neither Swedish nor any of the English /British dialects.
Unsurprisingly, the NE coast of England has a higher proportion of dialect words derived from old Norse than the rest of the country does. For most of the last couple of thousand years it’s been easier to get to Bergen from Newcastle than it has to Carlisle.
It’s the same up the whole east coast, at least from Geordieland northwards. Vowels in the back of the throat. In Aberdeen, the “R” is notably far back too, almost a voiced and rolled “G” rather than the usual tip-of-the-tongue sound.
It’s not just the Vikings because, if it was, York, the capital of a “Danish” (probably Norwegian) kingdom, should sound the same. As a kid I reckoned that the reason why I could pretty much understand a Geordie was because I had lived for 3-and-a-bit years on the edge of Glasgow which is similarily port/shipbuilding/heavy engineering.
Well, York – like Harrogate – isn’t really a northern town, it’s southern town in Yorkshire.
Can Tim please install the technology to allow us the play any sound samples that people might attach to illustrate their comments on topics like this. Would be very helpful.
@Norman
“And, of course, “bloke” should be “blerk”. Sid the Sexist is definitive. Best Geordie phrase I ever heard: “Divvent twist yer feace at me bonny lad or ah’ll fuckin’ knack yer.”
Yes, Sid the Sexist is definitive in such matters.