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NE dialect & place names.Coal.Turnips.Kyo's. Jumps down historical & geographical rabbit holes - some very niche indeed. 😉 Very dry sense of humour. From NE, lives SE. Art of the northern, grim & industrial type usually.

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guinevereofmason.bsky.social @guinevereofmason.bsky.social · 23h

Literally everywhere. It's a "regular thing" of mine over there.

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7and7is @alensinthelandscape.com · 1d

Borderlands, exploring the foothills of the Cheviots.
#BlackAndWhitePhotography #Borderlands #Photography #Northumberland #MonochromeMonday

A monochrome landscape featuring rolling hills under a cloudy sky. Several sparse trees are scattered across a grassy field, with a fence in the foreground. A crescent moon is visible in the sky.

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guinevereofmason.bsky.social @guinevereofmason.bsky.social · 1d

Today's turnip.....rutabaga. No it's not "local" but....that's where the bagie related derivations come from.

guinevereofmason.bsky.social @guinevereofmason.bsky.social · 1d

I'm from nearby ( originally - I live in the SE )

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guinevereofmason.bsky.social @guinevereofmason.bsky.social · 1d

I used to take my kids when they were little. They'd stand for ages, transfixed by the workings of the ovencast below.

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guinevereofmason.bsky.social @guinevereofmason.bsky.social · 1d

No need to apologise. I have forgotten which ones I have done too.
A lot of words didn't travel. That's the reason I rarely venture linguistically across the Tyne - it's completely different ! I'm from near Morpeth. I didn't know snanny either til I was told!

guinevereofmason.bsky.social @guinevereofmason.bsky.social · 1d

Guinevere's Guide to pronouncing Northumbrian place names like a local. Prudhoe is Prud ah. No hoe or prood sounds albeit the same cannot be said for Prudhoe Bay... "Up the Tyne" and on the coalfield. The castle is the only medieval fortification in the county not captured by the Scots.

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guinevereofmason.bsky.social @guinevereofmason.bsky.social · 1d

Prudhoe means 'Pruda's hill spur'. A hoh being a heel, point of land. There are quite a lot about....but what is meant by "hill spur ?" It's "a sharply projecting spur of ground resembling in profile the shape of a foot of a person lying face down." An excellent place to build a castle....

guinevereofmason.bsky.social @guinevereofmason.bsky.social · 1d

You are never far from a Percy.....in this case Lord & Lady Prudhoe.

Steve Ellwood @tynesnapper.bsky.social · 1d

#Ravensworth #Gateshead A right Royal knees up at Ravensworth Castle, Co Durham on this day in history, 12th October 1842. Report from John Sykes.

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guinevereofmason.bsky.social @guinevereofmason.bsky.social · 1d

What connects Prudhoe with Prudhoe Bay in Alaska ? Captain Algernon Percy, Baron Prudhoe. Later the 4th Duke. He took his title from one and the other was named for him.

As I say quite frequently on my account "over there, you are never far from a Percy....

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Johh F @chops1952.bsky.social · 1d

#Landscape #Photography #LandscapePhotography #WhitleyBay #Tyneside #England #NaturePhotography #BlueSky

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guinevereofmason.bsky.social @guinevereofmason.bsky.social · 1d

I can confirm to Mrs F that you definitely haven't made it up. It is a valid local name for a turnip. I did it a few days ago. I am on day 12. I still have a few to do !

guinevereofmason.bsky.social @guinevereofmason.bsky.social · 1d

Yet another daily turnip ......neeps.

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guinevereofmason.bsky.social @guinevereofmason.bsky.social · 1d

Haversack was especially used for a horse's nose bag - a bag full of oats. 😀

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guinevereofmason.bsky.social @guinevereofmason.bsky.social · 2d

Overacres. A farm near Otterburn. Means oat fields. Haver is oats. Recorded 1375, Scottish & Nthn....It's Norse. Compare Old Swedish hafre. Havermeal - oatmeal. Havercake - oatcake. Haversack was originally an oatmeal sack.

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guinevereofmason.bsky.social @guinevereofmason.bsky.social · 2d

Guinevere's (surprising) Dialect. Docken - is Dock, the leaf you apply when stung by a nettle. OED. Recorded 1475. Scottish, Irish English and Nthn English. Pleased to confirm my southern born/bred use the term.

guinevereofmason.bsky.social @guinevereofmason.bsky.social · 2d

You thought I'd forgotten the daily turnip.

No, I've been in the garden all day "tidying up" whilst the weather is kind.

Snarter.

guinevereofmason.bsky.social @guinevereofmason.bsky.social · 2d

Zoom in on that little 4 wheeled object in the middle. That looks like a bogey - not the modern meaning but the old Toon one from which it derives. "A low lying 4 wheeled barrow to carry things". I wrote about those last week - what, you mean you didn't read it, thinking it of no relevance ! 🤣

North East Heritage Library @neheritagelib.bsky.social · 3d

First time I’ve seen this smashing photo on the Quayside, perhaps from the 1890s or 1900s.

The grain warehouse was once the biggest brick building in the world and designed by John & Benjamin Green - a family partnership as influential as Dobson in designing Tyneside.

guinevereofmason.bsky.social @guinevereofmason.bsky.social · 3d

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guinevereofmason.bsky.social @guinevereofmason.bsky.social · 3d

Perfectly understood by those fluent.....and if it isn't, I'll do the various meanings of fettle tomorrow.

John D. Lewis @johndlewis.bsky.social · 3d

What fettle, bonnie lass?

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 4d

The Tyne Bridge between Newcastle and Gateshead was officially opened by George V on this day 1928. Designed by Mott, Hay and Anderson, who later designed the Forth Road Bridge, and built by Dorman Long of Middlesbrough.

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guinevereofmason.bsky.social @guinevereofmason.bsky.social · 4d

Guinevere's Dialect. Gully. A large knife. Ours was the bread knife. Bell 1815 , "a large sharp knife used in farmhouses to cut bread, cheese etc; also used by butchers in killing sheep." OED, Scottish & Nthn. Recorded 1582. Uncertain origin...might be related to gullet but 🤷‍♀️

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guinevereofmason.bsky.social @guinevereofmason.bsky.social · 4d

Willington (both - on Tyne & in Durham) is "the estate called after Wifel". Either a person OR derived from OE wifel "a weevil, a beetle" so " the farm/ village at the beetle infested place". Yet there is one in Derby that's "willow farm".It's all in the original spellings. 😁

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guinevereofmason.bsky.social @guinevereofmason.bsky.social · 4d

Another turnip - yammy

guinevereofmason.bsky.social @guinevereofmason.bsky.social · 5d

Typo... ya !