Further to the piece about local dialect, I append below some more info which may shed a little light on some dialect words.

The term Easter, Ees- the or East -the (thou) is a corruption of the Yorkshire and old English Seest thou. - (Do you see or Look you) It was probably brought to Cockfield by North Yorkshire lead miners. Somehow at Cockfield the S was dropped. Some South Yorkshire people still apparently use the closely related Sithee., The term East the was certainly in common use in Cockfield during the middle of the last century.

Example; Seest Thou a man diligent in his business. Proverbs 22:29 (How would we manage without Google?) Melvyn Bragg recently wrote a book about the King James Authorised Version of the Bible. In one of the reviews I read that thee and thou etc were falling into disuse at the time when this famous translation was about to be published in 1611. It seems that such usage survived into the twentieth century in County Durham and Yorkshire mainly because of the large numbers of Methodists and Congregationalists who continued to like using these words. For example 'Thou God Seest Me' has much more gravity than 'You God see me'

Nobbut (Nor but or Nothing but) , a Yorkshire term meaning only, was also used but not as much as East- the.

Venny, a corruption of ‘very nigh’ was also used but only by a few people.

Example 'Cockfield had nobbut gone ahead when Deaf Hill equalized. We venny had the game won'.

The term Stumer or Stewmer was often used to describe a very poor footballer. This term is yiddish for 'A useless person'. How on earth it came to by used in South West Durham is not known. Maybe it was introduced by migrant Polish miners.