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Haway / Ha'Way / Howay / Ho'way The Lads - Origin?


TB22 said:
Maybe the answer is in old TV series " The Likely Lads" Sit Com . With Sunderland Born James Bolem as Terry Collier . Sure you will find some Haways or howays somewhere in the script ,,
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The Likely Lads was written by Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais (they also wrote Porridge and most of Auf Wiedersehen Pet).

Ian La Frenais was from Monkseaton so its pretty clear the he would have been a "Ho Way" man .
Dick Clement was from Essex so he wouldn't have known a "Ha" from a "Ho" and he probably didn't care. Rodney Bewes was from Bingley in Yorkshire & Bridget Forsyth was a Scot so I suspect that they too would have not known the difference.

I think that James Bolam was the only member of the cast who was actually from the North East (Sunderland) and I am sure that he always said "Ha way"
 
Well i always thought that Ha'way the lads meant come lads, thats what i have always thought and what i will always believe as its sung as an encouragement for the players to get to grips with the game and play better, if anybody thinks different i could not give a flying F**k believe what you will just sing along with it.
 
The Hunter said:
I'm from the collieries, too...Seaham. And it was chossy when I was a kid. Of course "choss" was also heard.
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Seaham was not classed as the Collieries. The term was used by bus conductors leaving Sunderland.It was referred to the old mining towns and villages. Mainly Penshaw to South Hetton and Murton. Here the dialect is different to Seaham. The coastal collieries were sunk around 1900 and people moved there from the rest of Co Durham and Northumberland and other parts of UK. I had relations who worked at The Knack, Vane Tempest and Dawdon and they didn’t talk Pitmatic, like folk in Houghton, Hetton and Murton. They used to say they talk Seaham Harbourish. No offence marra but I’ve never heard of chossy. A Sunderland born mate told me his wife was from Murton and when he first went to her house , he thought it was a different language .
The Hunter said:
I'm from the collieries, too...Seaham. And it was chossy when I was a kid. Of course "choss" was also heard.
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Reet. I’ve put a couple of pics on here of mags in 70s saying Haway. There are loads more pictured saying same thing. Some of them say Howay but up until the early 90s Mags used to say Haway. Then the Geordie Nation happened and it became Howay to make them seem separate and special. They are *****. I hope this clears this up once and for all
 
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