If it’s good enough for Cheryl, it’s good enough for us! Our video challenge this week comes all the way from Chicago via Expat Mum. She currently has a Geordie poem up on her web site. (For those in the dark, a Geordie is a person from the North East of England, Tyneside to be precise.) The poem is written phonetically, so all you have to do is read it out loud as it is written. Video it all, or just a few versuses. True Geordies are welcome to show us how it’s done but must admit to their Geordie-ness first (not looking at anyone in particular Trish.)
It’s me ageeyan hinnies, A bet yiz forgot
It’s Buggerallmoney – d’yiz care or wot?
Av had a bad year – yiz wouldn’t believe
A just hoowop next year’s got nowt worse up its sleeveForst there woz wor lass; she chucked iz in June
Am alreet noo, but a woz a bit doon
Iz everyone sez, there’s more fish in the sea
But somehoo neebody fancies meThen, a gorra black eye in a fight
A smacked someone’s gob, hell’s bells worra sight
A didn’t desorve to be hoyed in the cells
Ind me mam fund oot – someone alwiz tellsMe mam hoyed iz oot so A kipped at me meeyat’s
He was deed good ind helped iz get streeyat
Noo Av gorra flat of me oowan
Am alreet for spon; Av peeyad off me loowanAm chuffed last years’ ower A woz gettin a bit sick
it’s teken it oot iv iz, even tho’ Am thick
Al hev a gud Christmas ind treat mesell well
A suggest yiz al dee the seeyam iz well.Mind how yiz gan noo.
So put on your best accent, get your cameras and shoot! Make sure you upload your video to Britmums, and we’ll highlight it. Go!
