"'getting the Northern accent out' in Sheffield Leeds or Scarborough"
same with me Brompt. Was brung up in Scarborough and have gradually lost the accent but if ever I go back there or speak to someone up there it brings the accent back.
MrsW is from Wirral and has lost the (gentle) scouse accent (I used to think she was singing to me when she spoke!!) but hear her talking to her Mum or siblings and it comes back. Broad Scouse is (IMHO) coarse but Wirral scouse quite nice.
Incidentally, an old (auld) farmer who was next door neighbour to my uncle near Scarborough had such a broad local accent he was virtually incomprehensible to me who lived only 8 miles from him
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