Vol. 63 No. 2 (2015)
Research Article

The Ethnonym Geordie in North East England

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  • Michael Pearce
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1179/0027773814Z.000000000102

Published 2015-06-01

Keywords

  • credit unions,
  • business naming,
  • institution names,
  • onomastics

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Abstract

Abstract

What are the origins and history of the ethnonym Geordie in North East England? How does this history — which according to some authorities has never adequately been explained — help us to understand its current usage and meanings? I attempt to answer these questions by drawing on evidence from a range of sources (including newly available material in the British Newspaper Archive).

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