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Scouse (/ skaʊs / skowss), more formally known as Liverpool English[ 2 ] or Merseyside English, [ 3 ][ 4 ][ 5 ] is an accent and dialect of English associated with the city of Liverpool and the surrounding Liverpool City Region. The Scouse accent is highly distinctive as it was influenced heavily by Irish and Welsh immigrants who arrived via ...
The Liverpool accent, known as Scouse, is an exception to the Lancashire regional variant of English. It has spread to some of the surrounding towns. Before the 1840s, Liverpool's accent was similar to others in Lancashire, though with some distinct features due to the city's proximity to Wales.
The spoken English language in Northern England has been shaped by the region's history of settlement and migration, and today encompasses a group of related accents and dialects in the United Kingdom known as Northern England English or Northern English. [2][3] The strongest influence on the modern varieties of the English language spoken in ...
The song is sung in a very strong Liverpudlian "Scouse" accent. [4] The name "Polythene Pam" came from the nickname of an early Beatles fan from the Cavern Club days, named Pat Hodgett (now Dawson), who would often eat polythene. [5] She became known as "Polythene Pat". [5] She said in an interview, "I used to eat polythene all the time.
Bolton. Trotters (originally a football term, it is now used to describe anyone from Bolton and surrounding area), Noblot (collective noun, anagram for Bolton) Bo'ness. Bo'neds (pejorative) Bournemouth. Coffin Dodgers (due its popularity as a retirement area) Bradford. Bradfordians, Bradistanis (pejorative) Bramley.
The Potteries accent is much more difficult to imitate than Cockney, Scouse, Brummie or Geordie. Few actors from outside the Potteries have managed to master it. Neither in the 1952 film "The Card" nor in the 1976 TV series "Clayhanger", did any actor give a reasonable rendition of the accent.
The three largest recognisable dialect groups in England are Southern English dialects, Midlands English dialects and Northern England English dialects. The most prominent isogloss is the foot–strut split, which runs roughly from mid- Shropshire (on the Welsh border) to south of Birmingham and then to the Wash. South of the isogloss (the ...
Manx English (Manks English), or Anglo-Manx (Anglo-Manks; Manx: Baarle Ghaelgagh), is the historic dialect of English spoken on the Isle of Man, though today in decline.It has many borrowings from Manx, a Goidelic language, and it differs widely from any other variety of English, including dialects from other areas in which Celtic languages are or were spoken, such as Welsh English and Hiberno ...