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Strongtea There is, well in Northern English dialects generally, due to Viking settlements.
You see street-names ending
Gate - in modern Norwegian it means 'street' rather than a moveable barrier.
A Fell (hill or high moor) in English is
fjell in Norway.
Beck >
bekkDales >
Dalen.
Bairn, meaning a young child in Scots and NE English >
barn.
Likely the Northern dialect words
aye and
nay, are Nordic / Germanic:
ja (pron. 'yar') and
nei (pron. 'nay')
And quite a number of others, though I reckon some dialect words, like
ginnel, and syntax like the use of
were and Yorkshire's silent glottal-stop
T (for 'the'), 'appen to have just... 'appened!
The name '
York' has Nordic origins, too: its ancient name is said to be
Jorvik.
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In my local pub, right Down South, one evening I recognised the bar-maid and the customer standing next to me, had North-Eastern accents. Then I heard her ask him, "Are you from Middlesborough?" He was. She could recognise the subtle differences between Tyne and Tees, about 30 miles apart.
