Talk:Northumbrian dialect

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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)

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Requested move 4 July 2019

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

English of Northumberland → Northumbrian 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)


 * Support All the other related pages seem to follow the same naming convention, for example Dorset dialect, Manchester dialect, Sussex dialect, etc, etc. Also "English of Northumberland" sounds like a group of English people in Northumberland. It might be WP:OBVIOUS to me and you that Northumberland is in England, but I suspect not to people in other English-speaking countries, such as the US and Australia.  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 18:14, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Support --109.158.117.146 (talk) 20:10, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Support. Not an expert on the region but this seems like a common-sense move to me. --Comment by Selfie City ( talk about my  contributions ) 02:28, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Support per WP:CONSISTENCY and WP:NATURALNESS. Rreagan007 (talk) 03:22, 12 July 2019 (UTC)


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