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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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'Going yem' is going home up here.
I'd love to know who came up with that one, the daft Geordie loon.
(, Thu 10 May 2012, 12:11, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)
Isn't that just a pronounciation thing though?
Wales is fairly similar. I have a friend you says 'by yere' for 'here'.
(, Thu 10 May 2012, 12:13, Reply)
But when they say home as a stand alone word they say 'home'.

(, Thu 10 May 2012, 12:51, Reply)
garn yem

(, Thu 10 May 2012, 12:55, Reply)
Geordie pronunciation
Is closer to original English than current accepted standards. It's the Scandinavian influence.
(, Thu 10 May 2012, 12:22, Reply)
That explains the pillaging and village burning too

(, Thu 10 May 2012, 12:23, Reply)
No, that's just when Tourettes gets pissed off.

(, Thu 10 May 2012, 12:25, Reply)
I like how one of the most northerly town in Britain is called 'Sutherland'
on account of how the vikings named it. Or something.
(, Thu 10 May 2012, 12:26, Reply)
And someone told me that there's no archaelogical evidence that Vikings wore horns on their heads...
...and someone else told me that modern Russians are descended from North Scandinavian Vikings.
(, Thu 10 May 2012, 12:30, Reply)
Closer to original Danish, surely?

(, Thu 10 May 2012, 12:32, Reply)
Is Danish not Scaninavian now?

(, Thu 10 May 2012, 12:33, Reply)
He said it was closer to original English
which is not a Scandinavian language, so I don't quite understand why a bunch of Danes would keep the original pronunciation.
(, Thu 10 May 2012, 12:34, Reply)
Ah.
I misunderstooded. Must be your foreign accent.
(, Thu 10 May 2012, 12:36, Reply)

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