>> A friend of mine says Renorlt.
Well thank heavens for it. If you listen to recordings of people speaking from as little as thirty years ago you can hear some beautiful accents and dialect, much of which seem be fading.
I don't hear the Fen accent - (eg "compootre") - often now, for example.
But I do hear a lot of shop assistants asking "Can I halp?"
I'm not sure when the "e" became an "a" but it's everywhere (in Cambridge anyway).
Mind you, I'm not so keen on the fifties style "Oh, I heff het me beck", usually heard in hospital dramas.
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