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why are people from newcastle called geordies
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�Geordie' is a variation of the name, �George'. The earliest recorded use of the name �Geordie', in the 1860s, was to sailors from any of the north-east ports. Not long afterwards, it was also applied to miners in the area, based on the fact that George (ie Geordie) Stephenson had invented a miner's safety-lamp which they themselves called a �geordie'. In more recent times, the name has come to refer to any native of the Tyneside area.
Another explanation is that it was established during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. The Jacobites declared that the natives of Newcastle were staunch supporters of the Hanoverian Kings, in particular of George II during the 1745 rebellion. This contrasted with rural Northumbria, which largely supported the Jacobite cause. If true, the term may have derived from a popular anti-Hanoverian song, which calls the first Hanoverian king George I "Geordie Whelps", meaning "George the Guelph".
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