MA-CM.....Macam. General insulting term for a person born in Sunderland. When shipbuilding took place on the River Tyne and the River Wear (this one flows through Sunderland) the common belief was that the shipwrights on the Wear were not competent to take the ships to sea for sea trials. Therefor, workers from the Tyne shipyards took them out to sea, ergo; Sunderland shipyards made them (Macam) and Newcastle shipyards took them to sea (Tacam). Thus Macams and Tacams.
