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Pitmatic, is a dialect of English used in the county of Northumberland. It developed as a separate dialect from Northumbrian and Geordie due to the specialised terms mineworkers used. An example of this is the word 'Cuddy'. In Northumberland and Tyne and Wear this term is an abbreviation of the name Cuthbert, but in Pitmatic, as in Scots, it denotes a horse, specifically a pit pony.
Up until the 1980s, pitmatic, together with some rural Northumbrian communities incuding Rothbury , used a soft rolled R produced at the very back of the throat. This use is now believed to have died out with the closure of the deep mines.
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