30-11-2021, 04:27 PM
(This post was last modified: 30-11-2021, 04:32 PM by Duncan Grimmond.)
One of the delights of the English language is the incredible variety of local accents. A French craftsman who worked with me for 13 could manage to understand everything except Birmingham, Newcastle and Aberdeen.
Prior to the demise of cotton mills in Lancashire, a noted professor of etymology was able to identify the street in Blackburn a speaker lived in as many neighbours worked in the same mill and had very specific dialect words associated with individual mills. Fascinating…
Just listened to the Cambridge pronunciation and that is the one I grew up with, or should I say up with which I grew?
Prior to the demise of cotton mills in Lancashire, a noted professor of etymology was able to identify the street in Blackburn a speaker lived in as many neighbours worked in the same mill and had very specific dialect words associated with individual mills. Fascinating…
Just listened to the Cambridge pronunciation and that is the one I grew up with, or should I say up with which I grew?
