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Mackem is a term that refers to the dialect and people of the Wearside area, or more specifically Sunderland, a city in North East England. Alternative spellings include "Makem", "Maccam", and "Mak'em". Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... This is about the city of Sunderland in England. ... , The Wearmouth Bridge Sunderland (pronounced: , or ) is a city in North East England which was formerly a county borough, and is now part of the City of Sunderland in Tyne and Wear. ... North-East England is one of the nine official regions of England and comprises the combined area of Northumberland, County Durham, Tyne and Wear and a small part of North Yorkshire. ...

Theories of origin

The term may stem from either ship building or the football rivalry between Sunderland A.F.C. and Newcastle United.^[1] Often, people from around the outer city areas are also known as mackems; such as people from Houghton le spring and Washington.^[2] A player (wearing the red kit) has penetrated the defence (in the white kit) and is taking a shot at goal. ... Sunderland Association Football Club is a professional football club, based at the Stadium of Light in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, in North-East England. ... Newcastle United Football Club (also known as The Magpies or The Toon) are an English professional football team based in Newcastle upon Tyne. ... , Houghton-le-Spring (pronounced ) is a former mining town in North East England. ... Washington Old Hall Washington is a town in North East England, within the City of Sunderland metropolitan borough. ...

The origins of the term are obscure and divided. One belief is that it was a term used by shipyard workers in the 19th century on the Tyne (see Geordie), to describe their Wearside counterparts. The Geordies would "take" the ship to be fitted out that the Mackems "made", hence "mackem and tackem" ("make them" and "take them").^[3] Small shipyard in Klaksvík (Faroe Islands), reparing fishing vessels Fish ladder and shipyard in Grave, the Netherlands Construction hall of Schichau Seebeck Shipyard, Bremerhaven Gdynia Shipyard Shipyards and dockyards are places which repair and build ships. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

The term could also be a reference to volume of ships built during wartime on the River Wear, e.g "We mackem and they sink em". Alternatively, this phrase may refer to the making and tacking into place of rivets in shipbuilding, which was the main method of assembling ships until the mid-twentieth century. The River Wear (pronounced Wee-er) is a river in the North East of England. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999...

The Wearmouth Bridge plays an important role in Mackem culture

The earliest known recorded use of the term as applied to people from Sunderland, found by the Oxford English Dictionary occurred in 1990,^[4] although "we still tak 'em and mak 'em" was found in a sporting context in 1973. This implies that the phrase was older, but there is nothing to suggest that "mak 'em" had come to be applied to people from Sunderland. ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1000x578, 518 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Sunderland ... ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1000x578, 518 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Sunderland ... The Oxford English Dictionary print set The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is a dictionary published by the Oxford University Press (OUP), and is the most successful dictionary of the English language, (not to be confused with the one-volume Oxford Dictionary of English, formerly New Oxford Dictionary of English, of...

Not all Sunderland residents accept the adoption of the term, pointing out its supposed roots as an insult, and its use as a derisory term by Geordies. In fact, some still call themselves Geordies, feeling that the Tyne has stolen the term Geordie. The two cities have a history of rivalry beyond the football pitch, dating back to the early stages of the English Civil War.^[5] The River Tyne can refer to two rivers in the United Kingdom: River Tyne, England River Tyne, Scotland This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... For other uses, see English Civil War (disambiguation). ...

Accent

As with 'Geordie', 'Mackem' refers to both the people of Sunderland and their accent. This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ...

Pronunciation differences include:

• In Newcastle, Howay is spelled and pronounced like that (or perhaps Hauway). In Sunderland, it is Ha'Way. The local newspapers in each region use these spellings. (Ha'way or Howay means "Come on")

• The word ending -own is pronounced [-ʌun] (cf. Geordie: [-uːn]).

• Make and Take are pronounced [mak] and [tak] (cf. Geordie: [meːk, teːk]). This pronunciation variation is the supposed reason why Tyneside shipyard workers coined the insult 'Mackem'.)^[6]

• School is split into two syllables, and a short [ə] sound is added after the oo sound to emphasise the L, i.e. [skʉəl]). Note: This is also the case for words ending in -uel such as 'cruel' and 'fuel' which are turned into [krʉəl] and [fjʉəl], although 'vowel-adding' in this way is also a component of Geordie ('school' becoming [skjʉːl], &c). This 'extra syllable' occurs in other words spoken in a Mackem dialect, ie. Film becomes [fɪləm] and poorly becomes [pʉəli]. (However, this is also prevalent within the Geordie dialect.)^[7]

• The word ending -re/-er is pronounced [-ə] as in Standard English (cf. Geordie [-æ]).

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Notable Mackems

• Kate Adie
• Lauren Laverne
• Dave Stewart
• Bobby Thompson
• Joseph Swan
• Heather Mills
• Mike Elliott
• Bryan Ferry
• Steve Cram
• Terry Deary
• Denise Robertson
• Callum Keith Rennie (actor, Due South and eXistenZ - born in Sunderland)

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References

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External links

• Ready to Go - Virtual Sunderland
• Mackem Poetry