Why are geordies called exactly so?
I looked this up on Wikipedia for you but I resisted copying out all of the details. A popular theory is that Geordies are named after the inventor of a miners’ safety lamp, George Stephenson, to distinguish them from miners in other parts of the country who used another type of safety lamp invented by Humphrey Davy. You can read the whole list of theories if you simply type in ‘Geordie’ to a search engine such as Google.
