I'm told I don't have an accent... ask Koan, though. It probably has something to do with my diverse background and speaking a handful of languages... sometimes in certain company my English side comes out, though... West End, London... Oxford, Chalfont St. Peter, something or other.
I wanted to check out the Manchester accent and found this... which I'm not sure precisely what it even is. He's got it right in the sense that it's pretty much indistinguishable, however. :wah:
Now for the Bells of St Mary-le-Bow...
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Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 4:49 am
by Galbally
I will cheque out the Irish one when I get the chance, but I can't access YouTube from this server I am afraid, arra begorrah de stuppoid ting doint woirk ath ahllllll, fur feck's saake! :wah:
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Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 5:11 am
by spot
We were unreconstructed up the Rosendale valley when I were a nipper. This is about 15 miles from Manchester, though Mancunians talk nothing like this:
These are from two miles up road and they give a notion of Lancashire's recalcitrant bloody-mindedness:
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Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 12:38 pm
by Chookie
They don't have mine. Wev'e never been recorded (or filmed or photographed or...