Why "Toon Army"?
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minimax said:
it's been a crash course!
I know you need it the other way around, but this might help improve your local dialect.
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tonto said:
minimax said:
it's been a crash course!
I know you need it the other way around, but this might help improve your local dialect.
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invaluable!
pikey said:
dmitsi said:
Back in the day when you'd get attendances upward of 100,000 fans, the town centre would be awash with black and white and I guess it looked a bit like an army. Toon is northern for town. Toon Army.
Thank you!
That was what I was looking for
No problem, let's hope I'm not talking shite. Bit of an over-generalisation saying toon is northern for town though.
dmitsi said:
pikey said:
dmitsi said:
Back in the day when you'd get attendances upward of 100,000 fans, the town centre would be awash with black and white and I guess it looked a bit like an army. Toon is northern for town. Toon Army.
Thank you!
That was what I was looking for
No problem, let's hope I'm not talking shite. Bit of an over-generalisation saying toon is northern for town though.
Yep, but the geordies do refer to it as the toon.
tonto said:
I know you need it the other way around, but this might help improve your local dialect.
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Does interesting thngs to WB Yeats..
Had Ah the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought wi golden an silver light,
The blue an the dim an the dark cloths
Of neet an light an the half-light,
Aa'd spread the cloths under yer feet:
But Ah , bein poor, hev ernly me dreams;
Aa've spread me dreams under yer feet;
Tread softly cos yee tread on me dreams.
And as for the bard..
Aa've of late- but wherefore Ah knaa not- lost aal me mirth,
forgone aal custom of exercises; an indeed, it goes so heavily wi
me disposition tha this goodly frame, the earth, seems te me
a sterile promontory; this myest champion canopy, the air, gandie yee ,
this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted wi
golden fire- why, it appeareth ne other thing te me than a foul
an pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of worrk
is a man! hoo noble in reason! hoo infinite in faculties! in form
an moving hoo express an admirable! in action hoo leik an angel!
in apprehension hoo leik a god! the beauty o the world, the
paragon of animals! An yet te me whats this quintessence of
dust? Gadgie delights not me- ne , nor woman neither, though bi yer
smiling yee seem te syah so.
Psychobert said:
tonto said:
I know you need it the other way around, but this might help improve your local dialect.
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Does interesting thngs to WB Yeats..
Had Ah the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought wi golden an silver light,
The blue an the dim an the dark cloths
Of neet an light an the half-light,
Aa'd spread the cloths under yer feet:
But Ah , bein poor, hev ernly me dreams;
Aa've spread me dreams under yer feet;
Tread softly cos yee tread on me dreams.
And as for the bard..
Aa've of late- but wherefore Ah knaa not- lost aal me mirth,
forgone aal custom of exercises; an indeed, it goes so heavily wi
me disposition tha this goodly frame, the earth, seems te me
a sterile promontory; this myest champion canopy, the air, gandie yee ,
this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted wi
golden fire- why, it appeareth ne other thing te me than a foul
an pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of worrk
is a man! hoo noble in reason! hoo infinite in faculties! in form
an moving hoo express an admirable! in action hoo leik an angel!
in apprehension hoo leik a god! the beauty o the world, the
paragon of animals! An yet te me whats this quintessence of
dust? Gadgie delights not me- ne , nor woman neither, though bi yer
smiling yee seem te syah so.
first class 
dmitsi said:
Back in the day when you'd get attendances upward of 100,000 fans, the town centre would be awash with black and white and I guess it looked a bit like an army.
The highest EVER attendance at any football match in England (oustside Wembley) was in March 1934 in the sixth round of the FA cup when 84,569 saw Manchester City beat Stoke City 1-0 at Maine Road.....Eric Brook scored from a corner kick......
nicecupoftea said:
minimax said:
"haway man divvent be such a pansy let's gan t' the toon an have a few bottles o' dog like"
No, I'm sorry, that's just a noise!
it translates as a fellow persuading a friend to come to a pub in town including a mild insult (pansy) in order that they might have a bottle or two of 'dog' which is what locals call Newcastle Brown Ale - it derives from telling your wife that you were just nipping out to walk the dog when in actual fact you were taking the dog to the local working mens club for a bottle of Broon.
minimax said:
hugoagogo said:
minimax said:
i've become quite the expert on geordie, mackem and borough language since I moved back here...although I still have to ask my staff to speak slowly or repeat themselves sometimes..on occasion I get them to write it down
how man, divvent taak shite man
did you hear about the durham miner who went to the doctor with a bad back
doctor: "can you walk?"
miner: work? ah cannat even waak man!"
or the man in the geordie clothes shop
"do you sell shorts?"
"aye, d'ye want lang sleeved or short sleeved like?"
or the teacher in a geordie school
"can you see the board?"
"ah cannat even see a bord cage!"
it's exactly like that in my office!
every sentence has "like" or "man" on the end of it...usually indignation means that "man!" will be added as in "haway an' f**k off man!" whereas like has many more uses, for example when confused "eeeee ah divvent knaaa like!"
I like the geordie accent I used to run a company in Gateshead and I couldnt understand a word my warehouse lads said.
For all I know what I took to be a cheery greeting for 9 years could have been them saying "hey look it's that wanker of an MD".
Wacky Racer said:
The highest EVER attendance at any football match in England (oustside Wembley) was in March 1934 in the sixth round of the FA cup when 84,569 saw Manchester City beat Stoke City 1-0 at Maine Road.....Eric Brook scored from a corner kick......
Yeah, but 15431 of the supporters were preganant females, shocking I know, but I stand by my exageration.
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