Geordie is one of the oldest and best loved of Britain's dialects. But modern times mean that some Geordie words are dying out and North Easterners are changing how they speak. Inside Out gets ...

Her opening conversational gambit had me struggling though, when she also told me her father used to have a "thotty stabber stee". Mrs Rivett, 59, is a lover of the dialect of northern Lincolnshire ...

"I am proud to be called a Yellowbelly," Loretta Rivett declared in an emphatic voice. By using this slightly puzzling, dialect word Mrs Rivett was showing her pride in coming from Lincolnshire. Her ...