North East...England
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did you know they have a Washington there too..lol
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Where the word "mackem" comes from...
The term is derived from
Mack'em and
Tack'em,
dating from the early ship building industry
(i.e. the people on Wearside
'mak[e] them' and other people
'tak[e] them') and started off as an insult to the people of Sunderland by the Geordies. In recent years, however, the people of Sunderland have taken the name to be part of their identity as Wearsiders.
Teessiders or 'Smogs' sometimes refer to Mackems as 'Plastic Geordies', meaning that they sound like Geordies, but they're not quite the real thing.
Sunderland riverside at sunset
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hey... is that the tyne brigde from newcastle?thats not far away then...