
Pitmatic - Wikipedia
Pitmatic – originally 'pitmatical' [2] – is a group of traditional Northern English dialects spoken in rural areas of the Great Northern Coalfield in England. One lexical feature distinguishing …
pit-yacker - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
2024年10月8日 · pit - yacker (plural pit-yackers) (Geordie, derogatory) A term of abuse directed at inhabitants of mining villages of County Durham and Northumberland. (Geordie) Someone …
Durham Pit Culture and Language - Courageous Colonials
2019年9月8日 · People from Durham mining villages were known as pit-yakkers and often spoke a recognised separate dialect of English known as Pitmatic. When pitmen were exchanging …
A working language - The Dialect and Heritage Project
Miners in Northumberland and County Durham were known as Pit-yackers. This name may refer to manual labourers who had to hack or thrash (yark). It also may be associated with the verb …
Pit-yacker Definition & Meaning | YourDictionary
(Geordie, pejorative) A term of abuse directed at inhabitants of mining villages of Northumberland. (Geordie) Someone who speaks pitmatic. Find similar words to pit-yacker using the buttons …
The NUT - Etymologists Corner
Explaining the emergence of the dialect, he said: "When the pits were developing, the workers were coming in from the outlying areas and they brought with them the traditional speech of …
South Newsham, Blyth - RootsChat.com
2011年11月6日 · Hi Pit Yacka, I also attended New Delaval Infants and Newsham Junior Schools and ended up at Blyth GS. We must be about the same age as I remember 1947 snow in a …
pit-yakka - English definition, grammar, pronunciation, synonyms …
Learn the definition of 'pit-yakka'. Check out the pronunciation, synonyms and grammar. Browse the use examples 'pit-yakka' in the great English corpus.
Blyth versus Cowpen - RootsChat.com
2011年6月14日 · Instead of Pit Yacka throwing out queries about Blyth, then skipping down to the Working Men's for a game of Dominoes, while Blythians toil over finding the answers for him, …
Yakka - Wikipedia
Yakka or yacka may refer to: Yacka, South Australia, a settlement in South Australia Yakka, common name for the grasstree Xanthorrhoea in South Australia Yakka people (Lanka), a …