It's also to do with football and the rivalry, but the name mackem came from the mining days and is an insulting word towards people of sunderland. The msn encarta dictionary and freedictionary.com support martha's second theory that wotcher is contraction of what cheer It is a slang (u.k.) that means the same as hello It should be noted that it is not clear whether the slang is still in use anywhere in the u.k. Yes, that's all right, i'm not surprised there are 100s of dialects still extant, but my question is how it was possible for these to have emerged in such a small country My question primarily relates to england.
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