Talk:Northumbrian dialect

Latest comment: 5 years ago by Newslinger in topic Requested move 4 July 2019

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This article is silly and needs work. For a start it is all unsourced ravings.

I am removing "Amble has a geographical connection to the German influence on its dialect.The Coquet river exits into an wide passage of the North sea and for the Saxons and other Germanic tribes would have been as close as the English coast to that of Germany could get. The coal seams have been accessible since prehistoric times exposed by erosion from the North Sea.The influence of these oft visitors/traders would have strongly influenced the indigenous Amble folk, and doubtless many mariners stayed on for a myriad of reasons.To a visitor unfamiliar with the Amble dialect, it sounds very Germanic to the ear. Amble's dialect is so distinctive that the villages of Warkworth ,Alnmouth, and the town of Alnwick ,(all within 10miles of Amble) are easily recognised as "different" from that of Amble."

As it all sounds a bit rambling (and is even in very bad grammar), with such staintments as "for the Saxons and other Germanic tribes would have been as close as the English coast to that of Germany could get" eh? What about the Tyne? Or if we are counting the whole of Great Britian then surely East Anglia and Lincolnshire could make a better claim!

Also what is "it sounds very Germanic to the ear" supposed to mean? As Northumbrian is a Germanic language (along with English) I should hope it sounds very "Germanic to the ear".

And where is the evifence of German influence in Amble? I haven't noticed any and many towns in Northumberland and Durham have had "visits" from forgeign, especially German, Dutch and Scandinavian marriners over the years.

I shall be working on this article and trying to make sense of it. Sigurd Dragon Slayer (talk) 14:22, 14 August 2010 (UTC)Reply

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Requested move 4 July 2019

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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (non-admin closure) — Newslinger talk 04:07, 12 July 2019 (UTC)Reply


English of NorthumberlandNorthumbrian dialect – Google searches of "Northumbrian dialect", "Northumbrian English", and even the more specifying "Northumbrian dialect" uvular, "Northumbrian English" uvular (in the hopes of attracting more hits directly related to this dialect and its famously uvular burr) reveal "Northumbrian dialect" winning out with the most hits. The exact same winning-out pattern occurs when the four are searched in Google Scholar. Further, "dialect" may be the least controversial name anyway, since at least the Northumbrian Language Society (if not actually credentialled others) regard this as a variety separate from English. Wolfdog (talk) 17:17, 4 July 2019 (UTC)Reply


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