Paulatic wrote:
Northumbrian guttural? That’s not how I would recognise it To me it’s soft and rolling especially the way they roll them rrrrrrrrs.
It varies hugely, depending on which end of the county an individual may be in. Berwick has strong Scottish overtones, Morpeth can be a generic English accent, Hexham and Tyne valley tend towards a Durham Dales/Pennines/well to do English accent.
But the bulk of the Northumbrian population, live in the blighted former coal strip from Newcastle to Alnwick and speak differently.
Kwok tera duu ussewanttttt (What tyre do you want). I couldn't understand the man at the tyre depot last week when buying two new tyres for a car ( ), so after ten minutes ended up opting for Dunlop.. On looking at the website later, I realized that "git fackin teer", was a "GT Falken tyre" which would have been a better option.
Eeeeeee hies ganin doon two jem (He's going to the gym), Eeeeee haakkk ull ee dooes is gan too ta jem (All he does is go to the gym).