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Northern English accents could sound southern by 2066, study finds. Some contrasting pronunciations, like bath and grass, will remain the same. Saman Javed. Thursday 29 July 2021 14:18 BST.
Northern accents are dying out and could DISAPPEAR BY 2066 - leaving people across England speaking with 'posh' south eastern pronunciations, study warns.
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Rob Penhallurick is author of Studying Dialect (2018), published by Palgrave Macmillan. In another gig, McIntyre has similar fun with the Tyneside dialect: “So I met a Geordie quite recently. It ...
Northern accents are merging into one dialect - except for those from Liverpool and Newcastle. linguists believe. They claim a “new variety” is emerging in the cities of Leeds, Sheffield and ...
For those who fear that the great Northern dialects are about to be overwhelmed by a tide of Estuary English - that words such as mebbies, bleb and gan will soon be as rare as proper mushy peas ...
There is a large variety of accents across the north of England and they range from mild to strong. In these clips, dialect coach Elspeth Morrison takes us on a tour of the main regional accents ...
Angela LockeAngela Locke, poet and author: Up north we are more careful. I would say northern dialects are being more celebrated in a general way, it is what is happening down south that is a ...
Younger Pennsylvanians' English is generally more midwestern than what may be spoken by their parents or grandparents. To hear an area's real dialect, find a diner where the 'old-timers' gather.
Because southern Italians were often looked down upon by northerners, many of the meridionali who moved to the north dropped their dialects and tried to adopt a northern one to better blend in and not ...