Sam Fender teaches us Geordie slang | Radio X

The Geordie musician takes us through some of the lingo from his hometown.

Sam Fender's second album, Seventeen Going Under, is out now.



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[kellybaxter]

I'm a fellow Geordie and I can totally see how our slang sounds so strange to a lot of people 😂 I love Sam as well

[trapofmirrors.]

«there's different brands of geordie, different flavours. drew's mental country bumpkin flavour» gotta love these two, ha-ha

[gbcrowne]

I love Sam! He’s so funny and down to earth

[lauraengelhardt]

Most beautiful dialect on this planet!

[arina]

I'm from Belarus and i love the accent! Currently writing my graduate work on the Geordie accent. Thanks for the video and for enriching my Geordie slang vocabulary 😃

[funnywelshman]

Sam is naturally funny. The kind of guy you could go for a pint with

[jontalbot]

I lived on Tyneside for 11 years and worked in North Shields. Every once in a while l get an itch to hear proper Geordie. It’s not just the words it’s the pitch and the rhythm. Geordies end their sentences on a high, sort of questioning note giving the dialect a sort of singing quality. I used to say there’s eff all poetry on Tyneside save how they speak and how they play football. The girls were better than me.

[finnelacadrauwaqairagata]

The Geordies when speaking sounds like their are the Jamaicans in the English Country . Love the Geordie accent ❤

[johnnygray]

Fantastic! I have a croatian friend who is learning Geordie. This is perfect for him!

[royculshaw]

I love the Geordie accent. Like Scouse (LIverpool) it's not an easy one to imitate.

[papafrost]

I'm an Essex boy proper hammer but I love the northeast and I've started to proper like you and the way you love where your from I've just watched your bbc4 Alan top song writer don't change you are proper

[Jordygal]

I was born in Wallsend, moved to Canada at age 11. Still love the Geordie accent

I’m a born bred Geordie but don’t have as strong a dialect as Sam. Wish i did sometimes though - love hearing this tho. The bit with scratcha was so funny and 100% what you’d hear any day if the week on Tyneside 🤣🤣

[freddibna]

Gannin yem, is the same in Norwegian for I'm going home or pretty similar

[klrp]

I need a book on how they talk. I love it

[charlie-girl]

Spice is my most favi of him! I love his voice and his guitar playing. 🎸 Sam is just real deal. Fun to see him like this! 🎼🎙 love from the Netherlands 🇳🇱 💕

[martijnschilders]

At 1:55, I thought he meant, Jongen! Deze telt! Which is Dutch for, ‘ Hey boy, This one counts’ instead of ‘do as you’re tolt. Great slang!

[Vzepeto]

Fellow Gordies did you know. That sneck is slang I never knew until I was 14 that everyone said latch

[andrewfield]

I'm from Durham and say most of these I think the whole northeast use the same words just sounds different from place to place

[damianheslop]

What is Geordie? Geordie is part of the Northumbrian dialect, and the Northumbrian dialect comes from Germanic tribes of Anglo-Saxons, or old English. To my Scottish friend's, most of your words are also old English. The reason is parts of Scotland was part of Northumbria, and Northumbria went south to the Humber, north all the way past Edinburgh, West past Whithorn west coast of Scotland. It was huge compared to what it is today. I'm a Geordie, and you could say the birth of English was in Northumberland ☺️