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33 relations: Alexander John Ellis, Association football, Butterknowle, Exonym and endonym, Geordie, Germanic languages, H-dropping, Hartlepool, Icelandic language, Maritime pilot, Middlesbrough, Monkey hanger, Nickname, North East England, Oxford English Dictionary, Peter Sutcliffe, Pitmatic, Rhoticity in English, River Wear, Ryhope, Sandancer, Smoggie, Stanley Ellis (linguist), Sunderland, Sunderland A.F.C., Survey of English Dialects, Syllable, Tugboat, Tyneside, Washington, Tyne and Wear, Wearside, Wearside Jack, World War II.
Alexander John Ellis
Alexander John Ellis, (14 June 1814 – 28 October 1890) was an English mathematician, philologist and early phonetician, who also influenced the field of musicology.
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Association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.
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Butterknowle
Butterknowle is a village in Teesdale, County Durham, England.
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Exonym and endonym
An exonym or xenonym is an external name for a geographical place, or a group of people, an individual person, or a language or dialect.
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Geordie
Geordie is a nickname for a person from the Tyneside area of North East England, and the dialect spoken by its inhabitants.
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Germanic languages
The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania, and Southern Africa.
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H-dropping
H-dropping or aitch-dropping is the deletion of the voiceless glottal fricative or "H sound",.
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Hartlepool
Hartlepool is a town in County Durham, England.
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Icelandic language
Icelandic (íslenska) is a North Germanic language, and the language of Iceland.
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Maritime pilot
A maritime pilot, also known as a marine pilot, harbor pilot or bar pilot and sometimes simply called a pilot, is a sailor who maneuvers ships through dangerous or congested waters, such as harbors or river mouths.
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Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough is a large post-industrial town on the south bank of the River Tees in North Yorkshire, north-east England, founded in 1830.
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Monkey hanger
"Monkey hanger" is a colloquial nickname by which people from the town of Hartlepool in north eastern England are sometimes known.
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Nickname
A nickname is a substitute for the proper name of a familiar person, place, or thing, for affection or ridicule.
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North East England
North East England is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes.
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Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the main historical dictionary of the English language, published by the Oxford University Press.
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Peter Sutcliffe
Peter William Coonan (born Peter William Sutcliffe; 2 June 1946) is an English serial killer who was dubbed the "Yorkshire Ripper" by the press.
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Pitmatic
Pitmatic (originally "pitmatical"), also colloquially known as "yakka", is a dialect of English used in the counties of Northumberland and Durham in England.
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Rhoticity in English
Rhoticity in English refers to English speakers' pronunciation of the historical rhotic consonant, and is one of the most prominent distinctions by which varieties of English can be classified.
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River Wear
The River Wear in North East England rises in the Pennines and flows eastwards, mostly through County Durham to the North Sea in the City of Sunderland.
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Ryhope
Ryhope is a coastal village along the southern boundary of the City of Sunderland, in Tyne and Wear, North East England.
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Sandancer
Sandancer or Sanddancer is a colloquialism used to describe those who come from the town of South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England.
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Smoggie
Smoggie or Smoggy is a nickname given to people from the Middlesbrough area in Teesside, north east England, originating with visiting football supporters.
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Stanley Ellis (linguist)
Stanley Ellis (18 February 1926 in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire – 31 October 2009 in Harrogate) was an English linguistics scholar and broadcaster, and an authority on English regional dialects.
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Sunderland
Sunderland is a city at the centre of the City of Sunderland metropolitan borough, in Tyne and Wear, North East England, 10 miles southeast of Newcastle upon Tyne, 12 miles northeast of Durham, 101 miles southeast of Edinburgh, 104 miles north-northeast of Manchester, 77 miles north of Leeds, and 240 miles north-northwest of London.
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Sunderland A.F.C.
Sunderland Association Football Club is an English professional football club based in the city of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear.
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Survey of English Dialects
The Survey of English Dialects was undertaken between 1950 and 1961 under the direction of Professor Harold Orton of the English department of the University of Leeds.
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Syllable
A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds.
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Tugboat
A tug (tugboat or towboat) is a type of vessel that maneuvers other vessels by pushing or pulling them either by direct contact or by means of a tow line.
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Tyneside
Tyneside is a conurbation on the banks of the River Tyne in North East England which includes Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, Tynemouth, Wallsend, South Shields, and Jarrow.
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Washington, Tyne and Wear
Washington is a new town in the City of Sunderland local government district of Tyne and Wear, England, and part of historic County Durham.
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Wearside
Wearside is an area of North East England centred on the continuous urban area of Sunderland by the River Wear, and in the wider sense, including separate neighbouring settlements such as Seaham.
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Wearside Jack
Wearside Jack is the nickname given to John Samuel Humble (born 8 January 1956), an Englishman who pretended to be the Yorkshire Ripper in a number of hoax letters and an audio communication in 1978–79.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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References
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