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	languagehat.com: PITMATIC.
		Thousands of terms used in Pitmatic, the oddly-named argot of north-east miners for more than 150 years, have been compiled through detailed research in archives and interviews with the last generation to talk of kips, corf-batters and arse-loops.
		The first Pitmatic dictionary, including pit recollections and analysis of the origins of the dialect's words, has been compiled by Bill Griffiths, the country's foremost Geordie scholar, whose previous work includes the standard Dictionary of North East Dialect.
		The dialect was originally called Pitmatical, and its curious name was a parallel to mathematics, intended to stress the skill, precision and craft of the colliers' work.
	www.languagehat.com /archives/002834.php (0 words)

	World Wide Words: Pitmatic
		Pitmatic is full of mining terms: at bank, on the surface; cavil, to choose your underground coal hewing station by lot; hoggers, footless socks that made it easy to clean coal from between the toes, later a type of flannel drawers; cracket, a stool on which a pitman sat while hewing
		A great many of the lads, especially from the Durham district, had evidently never been in Newcastle previously, and the air of wonder with which they gazed at the crowds, at the buildings, and especially at the fine folks who occupied the windows, was very amusing.
		It’s a compound of pit and mathematical, which may have been intended to stress the skill, precision and craft of the colliers’ work.
	www.worldwidewords.org /weirdwords/ww-pit1.htm (0 words)

	Nomadics
		He said that after moving to the North-East from London in 1990, Bill had reinvigorated serious scholarship on regional dialect.
		Within a short period he produced three important books on dialect: A Dictionary of North-East Dialect, Stotty ’n’ Spice Cake: The Story of North-East Cooking and Pitmatic: The Talk of the North-East Coalfields.
		The manuscript of a fourth book, a study of the dialects of the North-East coast, had just been handed in before he died.
	pjoris.blogspot.com (0 words)

	prblogger.com » Blog Archive » A few things… (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		If you want to hear a genuine pitmatic accent … give it a listen.
		I’m off to the PFA footy awards and after party on Saturday night thanks to my mate Miller blagging me a ticket.
		Readers - come for the pitmatic accent, stay for the intelligent insight.
	www.prblogger.com /2007/04/a-few-things (636 words)

	Pitmatic
		Pitmatic, is a dialect of English used in the county of Northumberland.
		It developed as a separate dialect from Northumbrian[?] and Geordie due to the specialised terms mineworkers used.
		In Northumberland and Tyne and Wear this term is an abbreviation of the name Cuthbert, but in Pitmatic, as in Scots, it denotes a horse, specifically a pit pony[?].
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pi/Pitmatic.html (66 words)

	The Great English Language - Thailand Forum
		Pitmatic (originally "pitmatical") is a dialect of English used in the counties of Northumberland and Durham.
		For example, in Northumberland and Tyne and Wear the word "Cuddy" is an abbreviation of the name Cuthbert (particularly the local saint, Cuthbert of Lindisfarne), but in Durham Pitmatic, as in Lowland Scots, "cuddy" denotes a horse, specifically a pit pony.
		While in theory pitmatic was spoken throughout the Great Northern Coalfield, from Ashington in Northumberland to Trimdon in County Durham, early references apply specifically to its use by miners "especially from the Durham district" (1873) and to its use in County Durham (1930).
	www.thaivisa.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=60281 (1517 words)

	Pitmatic: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		...Pitmatic Pitmatic Pitmatic, is a dialect of English used in the county of...Cuthbert, but in Pitmatic, as in Scots, it denotes a horse, specifically a Pit-pony Pit pony...
		Pitmatic, is a dialect of English used in the county of Northumberland.
		In Northumberland and Tyne and Wear this term is an abbreviation of the name Cuthbert, but in Pitmatic, as in Scots, it denotes a horse, specifically a pit pony[?].
	www.encyclopedian.com /pi/Pitmatic.html (158 words)

	Pitmatic at AllExperts
		Pitmatic (originally "pitmatical") is a dialect of English used in the counties of Northumberland and Durham.
		Traditionally, pitmatic, together with some rural Northumbrian communities including Rothbury, used a distinctive, soft, rolled "R" sound, produced at the very back of the throat.
		Most people from pitmatic areas would probably describe their dialect as a form of Geordie or Mackem.
	en.allexperts.com /e/p/pi/pitmatic.htm (344 words)

	The Ultimate Pitmatic - American History Information Guide and Reference
		Pitmatic, is a dialect of English used in the counties of Northumberland and Durham.
		Traditionally, pitmatic, together with some rural Northumbrian communities incuding Rothbury, used a distinctive soft rolled R produced at the very back of the throat.
		While in theory Pitmatic applies to the whole Great Northern Coalfield, from Ashington in Northumberland to Trimdon in County Durham, early references apply specifically to Durham [1].
	www.historymania.com /american_history/Pitmatic (201 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - Routes of English
		Melvyn Bragg travels to Ashington to listen to old Pitmatic, trace its roots through a thousand years of Northumbrian speech and find out just how the latest generation of young Northumbrians are talking local.
		Until the closure of the last pit in 1981 Ashington was one of Britain's most concentrated mining communities.
		Joan Beal, from the department of English Literature and Language at Newcastle University, explains the connection between the social structure of the pit village and "Pitmatic"
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/routesofenglish/storysofar/programme3_1.shtml (299 words)

	Pitmatic - ZDNet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Pitmatic (originally "pitmatical") is a dialect of English used in the counties of Northumberland and Durham.
		Traditionally, pitmatic, together with some rural Northumbrian communities including Rothbury, used a distinctive, soft, rolled "R" sound, produced at the very back of the throat.
		While in theory pitmatic was spoken throughout the Great Northern Coalfield, from Ashington in Northumberland to Trimdon in County Durham, early references apply specifically to its use by miners "especially from the Durham district" (1873) and to its use in County Durham (1930).
	www.zdnet.co.za /wiki/Pitmatic (679 words)

	Woodhorn Archive: Pitmatic
		In the nineteenth century, the word 'Pitmatic' meant 'the skill or craft of mining'.
		Pitmatic has also been described as one of the four dialects of Northumbria.
		You can hear Jim Slaughter speaking pitmatic as he talks about his life as a miner, find out more about pitmatic on the Durham and Tyneside Dialect Group website or compare it to the Weardale dialect.
	www.pastperfect.info /sites/woodhorn/archive/pitmatic.html (100 words)

	Northumbrian Language Northumberland Northumbria England UK GB
		A particular version of "Northumbrian" was spoken by the miners of south east Northumberland (from places such as Blyth and Ashington) and is known as "Pitmatic".
		An apprentice miner, might for example claim to be "studying pitmatics".
		To many, the most distinctive feature of Northumbrian speech is not the words which are used but the highly distinctive guttural pronunciation of the "r" sound.
	www.northumberland.gov.uk /VG/text_dialect.html (557 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This is now less frequently heard: since the closure of the area's deep mines, many younger people speak in a local ways that do not usually include this characteristic.
		While in theory pitmatic was spoken throughout the Great Northern Coalfield, from Ashington in Northumberland to Trimdon in County Durham, early references apply specifically to its use by miners "especially from the Durham district" (1873) and to its use in County Durham (1930).
		English as spoken in County Durham has been described as "half-Geordie, half-Teesside", and is quite accurately described in the article about Mackem.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Pitmatic (303 words)

	Pitmatic - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		In Northumberland and Tyne and Wear this term is an abbreviation of the name Cuthbert, but in Durham Pitmatic, as in Lowland Scots, it denotes a horse, specifically a pit pony.
		Since the closure of the areas deep mines, and the subsequent dilution of the areas identity, this usage is now less frequently heard, with many young people speaking in a more generic "Geordie-like" way.
		While in theory Pitmatic applies to the whole Great Northern Coalfield, from Ashington in Northumberland to Trimdon in County Durham, early references apply specifically to Durham http://www.indigogroup.co.uk/durhamdialect/ddanews.html.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=70522 (226 words)

	Geordie dialect
		Strictly speaking, however, Geordie should only refer to the speech of the city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the surrounding urban area of Tyneside.
		Locals insist there are significant differences between Geordie and several other local dialects, such as Pitmatic and Makkem.
		Pitmatic is the dialect of the former mining areas in County Durham and around Ashington to the north of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, while Makkem is used locally to refer to the dialect of the city of Sunderland and the surrounding urban area of Wearside.
	www.bl.uk /learning/langlit/sounds/case-studies/geordie (737 words)

	BBC Inside Out - Dialect
		For example in some coal mining areas old miners used to talk in their own unique "pitmatic".
		Listen to pitmatic sounds from Ashington in Northumberland.
		Many pitmatic words and expressions are now dying out as their usage becomes anachronistic.
	www.bbc.co.uk /insideout/northeast/series7/geordie_dialect.shtml (1862 words)

	Durham Cathedral - Sermon: Mining for Wisdom
		‘Pitmatic’, as it is called, has wonderfully arcane words like clarty, galloway, kennah, tarry-tout and yakka, useful for Scrabble.
		But in the pitmatic spoken near Alnwick where I was once a parish priest, a cuddy was a pitman’s ass and by extension, a fool; if they called you one, it was not a compliment.
		It tells of mining operations in the ancient world: gold, silver, copper, iron, precious stones – everything is harvested from the fiery, dangerous depths of the earth: everything that is, except coal - and one other commodity so elusive that you can’t mine it or dredge it up from the sea.
	www.durhamcathedral.co.uk /schedule/sermons/37 (1297 words)

	Turbo Squid -- Forum Posts
		I am interested in basic production car look and as to colour schemes standard single and 2 tone paint jobs will do but if i have a nice layered PSD i can go do whatever with that.
		Pitmatic, I'll do all the cars you need for only $60.00 each.
		The Maxi and Fiat have been assigned to modelers already however there are two or three more models i would like made but i would like to see examples of a modelers work before assigning a job.
	www.turbosquid.com /Forum/Index.cfm/stgAct/PostList/intThreadID/18838/3926 (1158 words)

	Collected Sounds Artist Spotlight on Jane Wade
		I was born in 1957 in a 'Category D' coal mining village in County Durham, England.
		Although it was a backwater, in my early life I was surrounded by music, books and 'pitmatic' socialist politics.
		I began singing, playing instruments and acting very young age.
	collectedsounds.com /spotlight/janewade.html (439 words)

	Is/Are. - UsingEnglish.com ESL Forum
		I've been confused recently about when I should use is and when I should use are when discussing more than one thing.
		I'm not sure because I think in my local dialect (Pitmatic, if you're interested) there aren't really any stringent rules regarding them.
		So, I'd like to know in which instances a particular word should be used and why.
	www.usingenglish.com /forum/ask-teacher/29405-a.html (416 words)

	- I'm researching pitmatic, the dialect of the miners for my P : House Clearance Newcastle Tyneside Northumberland: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		- I'm researching pitmatic, the dialect of the miners for my P : House Clearance Newcastle Tyneside Northumberland:
		Subject: "I'm researching pitmatic, the dialect of the miners for my P"
		I'm researching pitmatic, the dialect of the miners for my PhD thesis and I'd love to hear from anyone who can help.
	www.geordie.co.uk /DCForumID8/16.html (130 words)

	Battlefield SinglePlayer Forum > TP Maps 4th Map (56k!)
		this one has a more "pitmatic" feel to it i think.
		Jul 9 2004, 02:37 PM this one has a more "pitmatic" feel to it i think
		actually pitmatic replied to my thread on fpscentral.
	battlefieldsingleplayer.planetbattlefield.gamespy.com /forums/lofiversion/index.php/t746.html (517 words)

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