Funny Geordie Monologue by Gary Hogg

[redpanda2401]

class...lol

[ryken102]

I'm kinda shocked that I can hear similarities between this dialect and my own, I'm Barbadian. I wonder if it's just a coincidence, or if there was actually a lot of Geordie speakers in colonial Barbados.

[DouglasKew]

Awesome! just stumbled on your channel mate, but I'm gonna look around while I'm here! Your accent is just the way it should be...and your stuff is funny as hell! I love your straight face! Take nee notice of the accent snobs and the "purists". Ah get the same thing on mine cos I'm from Durham....Trimdon .....in the outer reaches....but there was aal kinds of accents there from aal owa. Just keep on doing your stuff marra...it's champion.

[vegeegal]

im american and watching this makes me feel totally lame. i would love to have this accent i absolutely love it :) best. ever.

[Superchicken798]

Love the cards at the start..Newcastle..eh..

[phoneunlisted]

wut

[Crana]

I'm a geordie and when I was in America a few years ago the locals either said I was Irish, Scottish or even Australian. One girl wouldn't let me leave the shop because she'd never spoken to an Englishman before, never mind one that "talks funny" like me.

[Suolperos]

I live in California by the way - so I'm sure more of this is going over my head than even the average Brit not living in the Newcastle area. Pronunciation notwithstanding, there are a few lexical items in this monologue that I think probably am not correctly defining in my head. Then again, I may not even be hearing them right! There's a lot in this monologue that I keep replaying because the clarity gets lost in the rapid speech and different pronunciations.

[Suolperos]

I feel kinda odd requesting something like this, since this IS still an English variety afterall, but I could really use some subtitles... I don't wanna see translated subs that render this beautiful English form into the dull, faceless Standard English, but subs that retain the dialect's nuances and words.

Kind of like the subtitles in Kes - anyone remember watching that back in primary school? How it (mostly, anyway) transliterated the broad South Yorkshire dialect instead of translating it.

[trojan73able]

howay man,larn yersell's geordie,wye aye man,yer knaa it meks sense bonny lad.

[greiteneis]

i sure as hell don't nundertand no fancy accent...whant da hell u sayin bout sticker and out? sounds like bloody prostitution if you ask me...just an ignant american so what would i know.

[kimountain1]

Basically, he told a story in German. That is it.

[Knightwars4]

Way too many Forces lads have Geordie accents, so I'm trying to learn to understand their dialect. Thanks for the video.

[OfNmW1]

aaah i love the old geordie accent

[salihadjic]

Definitely the best form of English spoken on British territories.

[MrTruthAddict]

This is the most interesting accent in the UK, I think. It sounds really cool to my California ears. I understand that the southerners look down on the northerners over there. Seems kinda silly from our point of view. The northern accent is very cool.

[ScathingSarcasm]

Jeez. I very much don't want to sound like an ignorant American, but, I can barely understand even the gist of what he's saying! Very interesting dialect, though. Sounds a bit like Scottish, but less abrupt, more drawn out and with longer vowel sounds.

[raffaz303]

Canny bit o' patter bonny lad, but reckon the gas man's mac should ov been 'foisty'.

[ComradeFlorian31]

Sounds very much like Scottish but I'm not an expert in Northern accents. Could you mention some differences between Geordie and Scottish? Thank you

[elPoonBringer]

Im from Santa Barbara California i really had to focus to understand what you were talking about. Good thing you had pictures haha.

[mrjew]

Damn, that sounds like another language.

[26095]

I grew up in Chicago, and moved to Minnesota-- and said "I hope I don't pick up that Minnesotan accent." Well, I did. Big time. But I lived in Alnwick for a year, in the 70s... and holy crap. It took me a month before I could make out what people were saying. But I got it, and reet canny-like, too. I worked in a pub, and heard "I wona bo-uhl av brrroon ale, please gadgie." It was awesome.

I love Geordie.

[missiworld]

I honestly can't understand this accent at all, which makes me wonder if people with a Geordie accent can understand my flat-American accent from Saint Louis.

[deadpaw]

@missiworld that accents not even the broadest

geordie accent or not can, americas all over the tv, everyone understands it lol

try speakin to sum radji from walker or byker in the toon then you'll be confused! haha

[randude1]

wow.. very different than So. California... that's english?? :-]

[Piercedpixie56]

Geordie and Liverpudlin are the hardest English accents to understand, in my opinion. But sounds lovely all the same.

[LordPopeyeAlphaDog]

Is this English?

[LxExMxOxN]

@LordPopeyeAlphaDog Yes

[PwnageMewsic]

I can't understand it lol! 

[hartlepoolfc1908]

To me it just sounds accent-less but iv always lived in the north east.

[Amblethwaite]

@hartlepoolfc1908 Ha ha! yer right. It's the rest of the country that's got accents!

[MsCherrylovee]

this accent is quite easier to understand when i concentrate. when im not listening it sounds foreign

[Ilovelucy14]

I'm American and I actually can't understand a word that he's saying unless I focus really hard.

[MsCherrylovee]

@Ilovelucy14 SAME AND IM BRITISH!

[TaskForceXXII]

the Geordie dialect is inherited from our Anglo-Saxon roots and it also has alot of old English influence... so if you think people speak this way because there uneducated... your wrong... because the Geordie dialect is allot older than normal everyday Americanised English... and it is also very complex...

[glitzgirly2]

heating peas in a kettle and browning a shepherd's pie under a light are the lines that got me :)

[Amblethwaite]

@flyingoverafrica I love Cheryl me!

[summc65]

Love it!

[ghlover2001]

lol, what?

[TheblueskyRose]

I'm a 16-year-old from Italy, and ilove English. Recently I wanted to learn more about English accents, and particularly about Geordie accent, which is said to be the most beautiful accent. And that's right because i think it's so fascinating, the pronunce, the words, everything! Im definately going to try to study that.

[Amblethwaite]

@TheblueskyRose Thanks for your kind comment. Check out my other Geordie videos.

[NEXTCMedia]

@Amblethwaite you really shouldnt learnj geordie Seriose! am a geordie

[youngelvisnightowls]

@TheblueskyRose thanks for giving our accent some nice compliments.im a fellow geordie and im very proud to speak the accent.

[TheblueskyRose]

@youngelvisnightowls You're welcome! :)

[BoricuaDelight]

i used to have two friends from newcastle and i've been fascinated by the accent every sense :) i can understand it as long as its not too fast

[NingyoAijin]

hahaha. I'm Northumbrian so I understand the Geordie accent fully... But it's still rare enough to be utterly hilarious XD

[aandrebs90]

but it's different than the one of cheryl cole, or is it the same?

[Amblethwaite]

@aandrebs90 Thanks for your comment. The accent should be the same. We were born & raised just a mile from each other - likewise Jimmy Nail and Peter Beardsley.

[Graddee]

I understood 1/5 of that... Something about spanners?

[bakulord10]

im a jordie i come fron gateshead lol this is funnt it sounds like my granda

[atainder]

I'm a toon fan in Idaho, US. I hope to visit Newcastle before I die.

[SPLOD41]

@atainder Wi, get yorsel doon here then! :oD

[JeetuSach]

i'm not native geordie, but east asian brought up in south asia...big supporter of the toon for the past 15 yrs, learnt to understand geordie, but havent yet mastered the dialect. would love to get up there sometime soon. geordie culture is unique, mentality is solid. big fan.

[baxterpoo]

I'm going to Gateshead and Alnwick, worried now I won't understand a dang thing they're sayin. Hope they talk slow for the poor Canadian eh!

[SPLOD41]

@baxterpoo Sorry mate..you've got nooo chance! :oD

[Rimber6]

Is this one of these dialects which is disappearing?

[2205923358]

Nah, it's still around, changing a bit though. Just go up to the North East and you'll hear it.

[drmarosen]

I lived in London (Chiswick) while a hospital registrar. I hadn't much difficulty understanding the many accents once I learned ENGLISH-English But, I had some difficultly with the first min of this video, I couldn't manage a word. But, by last 2 minutes I was picking it up Okay. Geordie sounds somewhat like Scottish (to me any way)...........but with a unique twist. It must be from the water.......Tyne or Brown Ale........same thing, come to think of it. Cheers and all the best for 2010.

[Amblethwaite]

Now available on Geordie CD - 'Fairly Truthful Tyneside Tales' Check the Gary Hogg website for further details!

[MrBumpa]

HUGH GRANT I MEANT!!!! LOL

[MrBumpa]

i was in floirda a few years back!! the yanks loved the accent once they knew it was'nt scottish! i just used to say here hinney we divint aaaaal taaaalk like huge grant ya naaa!!! lol

[dramawench579]

Yeah, I'm from the US. Yeah, I want to move to New Castle. This is what happens when you have a penchant for learning dialects, I suppose. We're not ALL wankers, I swear.

[Amblethwaite]

Do it! You'd be made very welcome here xx

[NEAReg]

WEYHEYYYYY GEORDIES! =D

neone from blakelaw here? xD

[graceygrumble]

Nice one Gary. Good laugh.

[dinnae]

I'm Dutch and it took a few lines before I could understand it. Apart from the odd word here and there.

Be proud of your dialects and don't be afraid to speak them. They're no "less educated" than what they teach in schools. That's such an outdated thought. Inform yourself about 'dialects' and 'languages' and you'll see that a language is just a dialect with a flag and an army!

[MrKippers22]

I agree. Well said mate.

[lozzbaba]

ah met this lass in the metro once and she wasnt a geordie, and everythin she said she was like, ah cannet understand yah :L Ah think our accents mint like, it's better than yorkshire and shite, because ours has fascinating words like :L Geordie all th way !

[ryantoon4life]

haha canny funny this like :P

proppa geordie :D

[dyingofpoetry]

I love this guy! and I'm from the U.S.

[Tropicaliak]

quite fascinating. I am a native English speaker (America) but I had to try like that as I do when I'm dealing French (the language I studied all throughout school.) I am fascinated by different English accents as they exist throughout America and the UK and the rest of the world.

[017524062]

I live in Plymouth, England and our accent is, of course, quite different - basically the basic "pirate accent". Geordie is more than an accent - it's a dialect with many words of Viking origin. I have been told that there are many words and phrases which are equally intellegable in Geordie and Norwegian. It's a fascinating subject. I love the variety of English accents - my least favourite is probably English "Received Pronunciation" - so dull.

[Ingamells17]

I was born and bred in Plymouth, Plymouth is my home, but over time I've lived in London and Pompey. Currently now living in Brunei, so my accent has been lost amongst my aussie and local friends.

Can't wait to re-claim my beautiful accent back. Hmm.. beautiful? ;D

[Aremselle]

That's along way from home.

[Ingamells17]

It is too far if anything, but ay, another day in paradise wont kill me. ;)

[VicariousMog]

Maybe I'm just particularly good at understanding accents, but I was born and raised in American and have no trouble understanding this. It's actually a pretty funny story.

[JeanySullivan]

Is that actually a man speaking or Cheryl Crow or whatshername, you know, from that girls group. But her accent is even worse. No offence, but it does sounds a bit like people who are too lazy to speak proper English.

[Natlo21]

It's silly to say we are too lazy to speak proper English. Geordie is a complex dialect, with a rich stock of words that can mean very subtly different things. And often Geordies don't particularly identify themselves with 'proper England' as you mean it, we have a very distinct culture up here. I'm impressed by anyone from abroad who can understand us! Geordie is so different from RP English, and it changes so fast. I'm quite young and often have to concentrate to understand a Geordie of 80+.

[geordiefonejerker]

cheryl cole. and yes there both from newcastle

[asuhdds]

Wow, I thought I was good at accents but I was completely incapable of emulating this.

[bucubiotchs]

That s awesome. I dont care what dialect it is, man I love to hear those brits talk. Plus they are a brave, great nation on top of it. Too bad they dont think more of us.

[xxjucabalaxx]

oh man ! this is english ? I am brazilian and i ve been trying to speak and understand english for a long time. hearing this guy speaking makes me feel like giving up studying.

I can't understand a thing.

[Amblethwaite]

Don't worry, it's just the way we speak in a tiny part of the north east of England. It's a dialect based on Anglo-Saxon & Scandinavian. Stick in with your studies - and good luck! Cheers. G.

[xxjucabalaxx]

thank you for encouraging me

Nevertheless it's an amazing accent

[Kuhfleckmaler]

Awesome, he sounds a bit like my father-in-law!!

[mchippas]

I got the gist of it but the pictures were essential. I'm American and I think we especially have trouble with Northern English accents because we really never here them here so we have no frame of reference.

I'd be interested to see how well someone in the UK would do identifying/understanding something like a Yinzer accent (Pittsburgh) or Philadelphia accent.

[jstow01]

"Sorry, Michael, that was just NOISE."

[Amblethwaite]

Ha ha! Love it! Cheers!

[nillahbear]

I love the accent.

My friend Craig rocks that accent and it's hot. (:

[mrsdodds]

Waggin.....a hav't heard that word since a left school lol! Wey aye pet loved this vid :)

[iandwrig]

great mate saw you in the journal at the weekend and i think there's loads of stories like this in the area if you want to do them,keep them coming

[peachypip]

This is brilliant too!! You're very talented. Hope to see more in the future.

[maccas93]

how can u not understand it

[LastWordsFirst]

... because I'm used to hearing the word "head" said like "hehd" not "heed/hiid". It's like a foreign language. Understanding homeland accents in our own language doesn't take much effort, but when somebody starts saying words with pronunciations the polar-opposite of yours, you have to really pay attention to catch even 50-75% of the words.

[VSLive]

Excellent.

Very entertaining.

"Divven let yer galasses dangle in the dust"

[PwnageMewsic]

Man I can only catch like every 3 words lol.

[andy86i]

maybe there should be subtitles for the americans.

[NotSoPhotogenic]

I'm American and I can understand it, give or take a word or two.

[Dezzy2312]

There should be subtitles for english people too.

[JonesTheEdit]

What a handsome Geordie!! Great accent, great writing! Love it x

[xxAMANDAxx08]

nah w daint like,its just you ppl arent as intelligent as us

[Amblethwaite]

You tell em, Pet. Americans don't know that the rest of the world speaks differently.

[xxAMANDAxx08]

That's true,if they hear an accent that's not American,they just assume it's Scottish

[smoggyben]

thats true that like. I was speaking to one of them and he thought I was australian.

[xxAMANDAxx08]

Australian? haha,that's funny :)

[sheeselectric]

lol my grandma once got asked by an american which part of norway she was from!

[NotSoPhotogenic]

Americans actually tend to confuse Northern English accents with Scottish ones. While they are certainly distinguishible (I can generally tell the difference), I still feel that the accents of Northern England and much of Scotland are actually very similar, particularly in the pronunciation of vowels.

[Amblethwaite]

You're dead right! Our language is based on Anglo-Saxon words and vowels sounds- unlike the rest of England. There's a great book 'The Fairly Truthful Guide To Geordie' that explains it all. Cheers.

[NotSoPhotogenic]

Thanks for the tip. I'll look into it!

[Nfunspoiler]

Geordies talk like freaks.

[Pedocide]

Wow. This accent is almost unintelligible to me.

[xxAMANDAxx08]

im wondering if this book is available in audio version coz i would rather listen to his accent than my own,even though im a geordie,it just would be better hearin it from him,anyone know?

[Amblethwaite]

Sorry, this was my first attempt at recording. I'd certainly like to do a CD in the future though. Have a look at my website for all the books that are available. The CDs on the site are written by me but performed in Lancashire Dialect. Thanks for your interest.

[xxAMANDAxx08]

Hello,thank's for the swift reply and information,much appreciated

[clik365]

This is so well done, loved where it`s set, in front of the fire, heart of the house. Great drawings.Ah the good owld days.

[Amblethwaite]

Thanks pet. Yer quite canny at the owld poems yersel. Keep a haad xx

[Wapitup]

that was a calls geordie accent one of the best av heard on youtube

[lolmancunt]

This reminds me of my family up in cramlington. Dont get to go up there often now. Buts its nice to have a change from hearing smoggy all day. You sound just like my grandads mate, nice voice.

[Cush1337]

Im from Bedlington 8D

[cassiali]

Great stuff Mr Hogg. Sending it to Geordies aal awa the warld.

alipatta.

[stanleybrown90]

Supercalifrag an' all that! Brilliant stuff Gary. I could sit and listen to your Geordie accent for hours. Let's have some more!

[Amblethwaite]

Cheers Stan, Folks should know that you've got some very funny monologues posted too!

[LankyNowt]

Reminds me of home!