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<blockquote data-quote="ilovemrkite" data-source="post: 2910504" data-attributes="member: 136639">What is a &quot;Geordie&quot;?Two main theories:1) King George - we were a major part of the armed forces which backed King George so we became known as Georges men which gradualy corrupted to Geordies.2) George Stephenson invented a mining lamp which didn&#039;t cause explosions when in contact with flaofftopicble gases - useful when you&#039;re in a mining situation type employment ;-). The miners wearing them called them after the inventor, and again, gradual corruption led to miners being called Geordies.&nbsp; If anyone wishes to dispute either of these theories, I&#039;ll knut yer, oops sorry, I mean please go ahead <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />Bill</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ilovemrkite, post: 2910504, member: 136639"] [b]What is a "Geordie"?[/b] Two main theories: 1) King George - we were a major part of the armed forces which backed King George so we became known as Georges men which gradualy corrupted to Geordies. 2) George Stephenson invented a mining lamp which didn't cause explosions when in contact with flaofftopicble gases - useful when you're in a mining situation type employment ;-). The miners wearing them called them after the inventor, and again, gradual corruption led to miners being called Geordies. If anyone wishes to dispute either of these theories, I'll knut yer, oops sorry, I mean please go ahead :-) Bill [/QUOTE]

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