British vocab query

[Kaitlin]

I'll guess that about 75% of our OT messages are British-American 
translations.
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Best wishes, 
Kaitlin
--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Simon" <simon.branford at h...> wrote:
> 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)