Only To the Dog

ONLY TO THE DOG Dialect abandoned with education and travel Now only speak Geordie to the dog on walks In unguarded moments Awkwardly recalling how the pronunciation goes: No longer an unhesitating morass of flat vowels Floating on the muddy gurgle of the Tyne, Like your long-ago first wife’s name, coming unerringly To your lips in the presence of the second. ................................................. Geordie is a speech dialect in Northern England's Tyne valley.