The local lingo

[Rachel]

One of the things I’ve learned since leaving Amble is the number of words that are unique to Northumberland. Just the other day, I was out walking our dog with a friend and her dog, and she asked if we would take the short-cut across the field. Oh no, I said , it's too clarty. Clarty? Yes clarty. What’s clarty? Muddy! This got me thinking of other words unique to Northumberland.

There’s probably quite a number but here is a little list, you don’t hear these words anywhere else on the planet unless they’re from the mouth of someone from Northumberland.

Hacky
Muckle
Canny
Clarty
Hadaway
Hawehman
Dunch
Guffy
Bagey (Turnip) If you ask for a turnip here , you get a little white thing:- a sweede. I’m sure when I was little turnips were big purple things:- we used to hollow them out for Halloween :- Turnip Lanterns- they were massive!

If you can think of any other unique to Northumberland words add em to the list...