Research Paper on:
Northeast England's Geordie Accent

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One of those are the Geordies. The Geordic accent has caused a lot of controversy in the past, to the point of a concentrated effort at one point to remove  the accent from the speech patterns of the people. But is that justifiable? The reason that many, initially, chose to work the Geordic accent from their speech was that  they were perceived as being less intelligent than those who spoke the Queens English. This is still a prevailing idea and if it becomes the dominant idea, then it may  very well happen that the Geordie accent will be doomed to the homogenization and globalization that seems to have captivated the world. The actual term, Geordie, seems to  have come from a rebellion in which Jacobites moved throughout Northeastern England. Each region that was conquered was claimed in the name of King George. Geordie is the bastardized version  of George(Geordie Land). However, there are those who challenge this idea and state that the term was one which was used by coal miners in Durham and Northumberland(Geordie Land).  The Oxford English Dictionary states that the words has two actual meanings: a guinea(which had St. Georges image on it) and a pitman(Oxford Dictionary 1988). The other idea is that  the people of that region were miners and so were identified by the type of lamp that they carried into the mines called a Georgie(Geordie Land 2002). Most recently, there  have been a number of instances that have experts alarmed, fearing that the wonderfully warm sound of the Geordie accent may be going the way of the dinosaur. John Beal  of the University of Newcastle states that many regions around Newcastle have begun to allow the phonetic spelling of Geordie words possibly might represent an assertion of local identity in