Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2004

Having a bit of fun tonight.

I just heard an announcement that a new series, with American actors, will
begin soon on the USA channel.

Title:  Touching Evil.  I shall have to check out if this is any better than
the US version of Coupling.

I remembered Robson Green as the star in the UK production, and see he has
been for the past year or so in a series called "Wired in the Blood".

I am not wild about either of the shows, but didn't want to make a mistake
on his name, so I looked it up on Google, and find there is a website in his
name, and it has a discussion about the Geordie speech.
http://www.robsongreen.com/profile/geordie/

http://www.brh.clara.net/profile/geordie.htm
What's a Geordie?

Brit. ~n. (1) a person who comes from or lives in Tyneside, North Eastern
England. (2) the dialect spoken by these people. ~adj. (3) of or relating to
these people or their dialect.

and that has a link to a translator:
http://www.whoohoo.co.uk/main.asp?topic=translator&pageid=geordie&string=&siteur
l=http://www.brh.clara.co.uk/profile/geordie.htm

http://makeashorterlink.com/?D2A114817

This whoohoo has translators fro 6 or 7 UK dialects.  Quite fun, really.
(Scouse, Brummie, Scottie and even  Yorkshire chicken run. . .well, that's
what it says.)