Ha'way the Lads!: Illustrated Story of Newcastle United

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The Geordie spelling of the word we all know to mean either 'come on' or an exhortation to your chosen football team to perform harder is HOWAY, but it's commonly misspelled as HAWAY.

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and in particular the 17th century English Civil War re-enacters such as The Sealed Knot and the English Civil War Society. But both Geordies and Mackems can get proper radgie if you get their phraseology mixed up, which is why we created this useful guide to the meanings and most common spellings of Geordie words and phrases. To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. All my dearly missed dads family came down from Sunderland for pit work in the 60s (part of the huge Bentilee estate and its overflow eventually to Biddulph), I always marvelled at my dad, uncle and nan/grandads chatter that almost became its own language after a few beers!

While rarely heard now, what is certain is that in days gone by supporters at the match would yell – after a deep breath – ‘Haaaaaaaway the Lads! Free Bets are paid as Bet Credits and are available for use upon settlement of bets to value of qualifying deposit. Geordies are born on the banks of the river Tyne - eg Newcastle, Gateshead and South and North Shields. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Despite this not being my team, I really like it, and I’m certain my mackem mate will be over the moon with it! If you are a resident of another country or region, please select the appropriate version of Tripadvisor for your country or region in the drop-down menu. Turning off the personalised advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive. ha wa/ Used by 'mackems' or people originating from the Sunderland area (North East England), similar meaning and use to the geordie 'howay'.