British vocab query

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> Hello chatters!
> 
> :sigh:  I can't believe I'm joining yet another list.  I swear, I'm 
> asking my question and getting back off this list--unless I get 
hooked 
> in the meantime!
> 
> 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.
> 
> Thanks,
> Amy Z


Hey Amy Z--

Welcome!  

A Geordie is a native of Tyneside & it's also the dialect they speak 
(believe me, some of them are *almost* unintelligible to someone not 
from that area & that's not putting them down).  

There are several really good British/American dictionaries out there-
-one of the ones I use is " British English A to Zed".  Your local 
Barnes & Noble or Borders should have others (I got this one through 
Past Times).  I've found them indispensible (sp?) when one sets all 
of one's fiction in the British Isles and Ireland (as I tend to do)!

Happy Hunting & hope this helps--

Peace & Plenty,

Parker

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