>> "'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.
Very early in my CS career I worked with a lass from the Wirral who's accent was like that. Sort of posh scouse.
>> 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
Various relatives and neighbours of my Mother's family in the mining areas of Leeds were similarly difficult to follow.
The Newlands Valley Cumberland farmer at who's DB&B establishment my parents and subsequently family were regulars from fifties until seventies was incomprehensible until I was 10/11 and acquired ability to tune in.
Last edited by: Bromptonaut on Sun 29 Sep 13 at 22:39
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