Anyone in the North East {Tyne and Wear or Northumberland??}

Hi hileena I am 11 miles from the Newcastle.

Another meet up would be great I cant manage 1st week of school hols or the week leading up to August Bank Holiday.
Anyone else interested.

I was born and grew up on the NE coast - Blyth. My parents lived there until 2002, I still visit sometimes.
And Rothbury - a lovely little town, I stayed there for a few months, evacuated during WW2. Great adventures near the River Coquet.
I miss the sea so much!

Yes I'm interested Glass
I'll be away 1st week of July, and then going away beginning September, but apart from that generally available to lunch with like-minded ladies

I'm interested too. We have no firm plans at the moment but will probably be away at the beginning of July - last minute break and not sure to where

Tegan, we don't say 'oop north', that's a Yorkshire dialect.
We don't emphasise the 'o' s in our accent.

We say things like; 'Ahm a Geordie lass, whey aye man'. Or 'Me Daa was doon the pit'.

I say things like ' Bliddy Nora, aam cheesed off the day man'.

Having said that I do try to 'lose' my accent as it sounds so common when Im at work and you don't impress your bosses by sounding common.

Well you don't need to try and impress us if you come to the meet-up Silverfish, we just take people as we find them

Yes we do jane

Rather like Groucho Marx said he wouldnt want to belong to any club that would have him , I wouldn't work for anyone who needed impressing by "talking proper " !! !

Soutra, you may be lucky enough to have or have had the choice in employers. I don't so I have to be all things to all people. Some people I meet are terribly posh so I have to speak reasonably, other people I work with could not care less so I am less formal with them. Its just an act to me and I get paid for it.

Soutra You mean there are terribly posh people up here[alarmed emoticon]

Stansgran harri shakes blue rinse and fingers pearls nervously.

I think it was silverfish who implied there are posh people in the north east. I merely opined that I would never have worked for anyone who obliged me to affect any sort of modification of how I speak. Dialects are part of the richness of language which we should celebrate but by dialect I don't mean slovenly or slang forms of speech.

Ah but who decides which is slovenly slang and which is slovenly speech? And which is dialect? Wouldn't like to be on that panel.

Anyone who can say 'I would never work for anyone who obliged me to affect any sort of modification of how I speak' Is very lucky, but don't we all have to change something when we work for an employer.

If we work in a callcentre we have to modify our accents or the customers would not understand it.

Its the same with dress, if we work in an office we are expected to dress to 'dress code' clothes.

wherever we work we have to behave according to rules and codes of conduct to fit in with our jobs so its no different to speaking a little more refined when perhaps we are meeting an important client or customer.

Soutra is perhaps implying that she does not need to work, Good luck to her but some of us have to things we might not like to earn a crust.

Hello all I live in Northumberland too. Not very far from Hexham and Hadrians Wall. It's lovely around here but rains a lot.

Hello Hilda and welcome if you've just joined. I see from your profile you live in Haltwhistle - that must be a lovely place to live, I think.
I hope to meet you at some stage when Glassortwo gets round to organising something
<Hint! Hint!>

Ha ha jane why did I feel that coming on

Right need suggestions of suitable dates from everyone.

Stansgran I said "slovenly or slang " not slovenly slang. I think most of us would have little difficuty in recognising slovenly speech - see all the column inches in Pedants' Corner for people's pet hates! Slang is much more transient- yesterday's "cool" becomes today's "wicked" and again most of us would have little difficulty in knowing when it would be appropriate or not to use slang expressions. "We was" or "myself and she " or "I brought" for" I bought" might be seen as poor use of language but do not please accuse me of prejudice againat dialect or local accents!
And silverfish of course I had a career but it was my ability to speak French or German that was relevant - not my English!!

How about Newcastle or somewhere in Tyne Valley last week of June?

Sounds good to me.

Here is a link to a new thread for anyone interested in meeting up.

North East, Tyne & Wear, Northumberland meet up

hi sorry to hijack your thread im the new editor in training for the Durham area and would love to arrange a meeting in the durham area, but id also like to come along to any other meets just to get the feel of you lovely people if thats ok x

Hi, I am a new member living near Hexham, would to meet up.

Hello Tigga and adelaide, I think we are all pretty busy in the run up to Christmas, but just keep an eye on the threads, there will be another meet-up sooner or later

Hi, I am a geordie originally from Newcastle but now living between there and Hexham.