Newcastle-Under-Lyme.

stewey | 03:21 Tue 20th Nov 2012 | ChatterBank

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Any of you blimey limeys live there, or near abouts?

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plautus

Sorry, I'm from the other Newcastle; Upon Tyne.

stewey

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So, you're a Geordie, plautus. Do you have a "thickish" accent?:)

plautus

No, I'm what you call an "educated" Geordie (a rara avis). My accent is more received Oxford pronunciation but I can do the accent if required, like ye knaa warra mean, marra?

wolf63

"educated" Geordie

so you are an oxymoron?

plautus

Correct! But surely the fact that I know what an oxymoron is means I must be educated to some degree!

stewey

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I know a Geordie who has been here (Ontario) for about thirty years, and is quite difficult to understand. If he's had a couple of beers you need Bletchley Park to decode him. However, his mother came over here once, and we had no difficulty understanding her at all. She must have been posh like you:)

plautus

The trick is, if he's has a couple of beers, then you have a couple of beers and you will understand him no bother. It is not a lack of comprehension which is the problem, merely a lack of beer.

stewey

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Theoretically, plautus, that sounds plausible; however, going drink for drink with him is the not him most efficacious method of interpreting his rambling. He quite often breaks into "I belong to Glasgee, and...". Quite confusing is he.

stewey

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Too many "hims" in there. Oh well:)

plautus

If he "belongs te Glasgee" then he is not a Geordie. Stone cold sober, I, a trained linguist cannot understand a Glaswegian. A few beers help, but I suspect that this guy is a renegade Scot pretending to be English.