[HPFGU-OTChatter] British vocab query

[Simon]

Amy wrote: "This is not even remotely related to HP.  I just figured this is
the biggest concentration of Brits I come in regular contact with, and I
really want to know the answer to this question:  What's a Geordie?  (sp?)
I think it's someone from around Newcastle, but I'm not sure.  Someone
should publish a British-American dictionary."


I believe this is the idea of this group. That HP fans can come together and
discuss practically any topic they wish to and get answers to such
questions.


>From the OED online:
a. A native or inhabitant of Tyneside. Also in slightly transf. senses. Also
attrib. or as adj. colloq.
b. A Scotsman. Austral. and N.Z. colloq.

1866 C. NORDHOFF Young Man-of-War's Man iv. 69 The sailors belonging to the
ports on the north-eastern coast of England are called Jordies.
1872 T. & G. ALLAN Tyneside Songs (1891) 416 Where's a' his funny sayin's,
that set a' the Geordies in a roar?
1890 'R. BOLDREWOOD' Miner's Right I. ix. 227 Whose yer friend; a Geordie,
most like?
1892 R. O. HESLOP Northumberland Words I. 196 The men who went from the
lower Tyneside to work at the pits in South Tynedale were always called
'Geordies' by the people there.
1943 Amer. Speech XVIII. 89 [In New Zealand] a Scotsman is a Geordie, and an
Irishman, as in vulgar American, a Mick. These synonyms are also current in
Australia.
1955 'C. H. ROLPH' Women of Streets iv. 56 A large rough Geordie woman in
her mid-thirties.
1959 'M. AINSWORTH' Murder is Catching 11 He had a faint Geordie twang.
Ibid. 12 'Have a heart,' said the Geordie.
1971 Listener 12 Aug. 201/2 There's a people's culture in Geordielandit was
the last place in England to have its own circuit of music halls.


Hopefully some, or even all, of the above is helpful.

I have only heard the term used as is described in the start of the
definition above, but apparently there is a wider use!


There are American - British dictionaries online. I just cannot remember any
of them. Maybe someone else will come up with a suitable site.



Simon (back to the Harry FAQ for me)