Book description
Gain an insight into the English language, via one of the UK's richest
dialects: Geordie.
From George Stephenson to The Animals to Viz, the North East has long
had a successful creative culture, developing alongside its industrial history.
Newcastle in particular has successfully reinvented itself as a centre
of the arts, while still maintaining its own regional identity. This
book is the definitive guide to the most distinctive element of that
identity: the Geordie dialect.
This book is a must for anyone with even a passing interest in the
language of the North East, and also provides a thorough examination of
the general state of English, from the traditional wit and wisdom of the
Geordie perspective. Born the son of a miner in Northumberland, Sid
attended Grammar school where he excelled at rugby and athletics. He won
a scholarship to lead Modern History at St. Johns College Cambridge, and
after university, joined Granada Television. By the mid 1970s, Sid was
commenting on darts, and he remains today the Darts Broadcaster supreme.
Sid has always been interested in the Geordie language, with both
Pitmatic and Gadgie Geordie blood in his veins. A published author,
mostly biographies of his favourite sportsmen, this is his first book on
Geordie.
