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The Geordies do use pet as an endearment for wife or girl friend: I won't forget, pet, also in more general terms in conversing with people of all ages.
Brooks doesn't worry much about composing a frame or giving you a sense of place; he came from television, made it big with a TV-style tearjerker ( Terms of Endearment ), and knows how to pull you in whether you want to be pulled in or not.
The WP , historically very skittish in its treatment of race, doesn't complicate the story with the inconvenient but true observation that since most whites know better than to use the N-word epithet, and since it has become a common phrase of salutation and even endearment among blacks, a high proportion of its current usage is in fact as a synonym for "black person."
Of course, while this form of address does away with the confusion created by the term "my friend," I think you'd agree that one should put off using the possessive endearment until it is truly called for, or it will come across as treacly baby talk.
As a term of endearment girlie and girly are in the same category as popsy: Girlie, have you seen my toothbrush? in the sense of being less often heard, although it goes back to the 19th century.