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Woodhorn Colliery: Pitmatic
In the nineteenth century, the word 'Pitmatic' meant 'the skill or craft of mining'. In the 1930s, the writer J B
Priestley used the word to describe the dialect of the miners in East Durham. Pitmatic has also been described as one
of the four dialects of Northumbria. Today, pitmatic is still spoken in coastal Northumberland.
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.
Alternatively, you can go back to social history.
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