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"Mak'em" is an informal name for residents of and people from Sunderland, a city in North East England. Spelling variations include "Mackem", "Makem", and "Maccam". Which is local slang for Make Them ("Mak'em") it's also a name for the local accent (not to be confused with Geordie); and for a fan, whatever their origin, of the professional football club Sunderland A.F.C. == Origin == Main theory of the term's origin is that it is local slang for "make them" ("Mak'em"). Taken originally from ship workers on the River Tyne saying that people on the River Wear (i.e. Sunderland) "Tak'em jobs off us (people from Tyneside) and Mak'ems (make them - i.e. ships). The term could also be a reference to the volume of ships built during wartime on the River Wear, e.g. "We mak'em and they sink'em". The term has also come to represent people who follow the local football team Sunderland AFC, and may have been invented for this purpose. Newcastle and Sunderland have a history of rivalry beyond the football pitch, dating back to the early stages of the English Civil War, the rivalry associated with industrial disputes of the 19th century and political rivalries after the 1974 creation of Tyne and Wear County. Evidence suggests the term is a recent coinage. According to the ''Oxford English Dictionary'', with which the BBC carried out a well-publicised search for references, the earliest occurrence of it in print was in 1988. The phrase "we still tak'em and mak'em" was found in a sporting context in 1973 in reference to Sunderland Cricket & Rugby Football Club.〔 While this lends support to the theory that this phrase was the origin of the term "Mak'em", there is nothing to suggest that "mak'em" had come to be applied to people from Sunderland generally at such a date. The name "Mak'em" may refer to the Wearside shipyard workers, who during World War II were brought into shipbuilding and regarded as taking work away from the Geordies on Tyneside.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Virtual Sunderland )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mackem」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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