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  2. Scouse - Wikipedia

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    Scouse (/ s k aʊ s / 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.

  3. Regional accents of English - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. List of British regional nicknames - Wikipedia

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    Scouse English. London: Abson Books. ISBN 0-902920-94-4. Partridge, Eric; Dalzell, Tom; Victor, Terry (2007). The concise new Partridge dictionary of slang and unconventional English. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-21259-5. Robinson, Mairi (1985). Concise Scots Dictionary. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press Ltd. ISBN 1-902930-00-2

  5. Lancashire dialect - Wikipedia

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    The linguist Gerard Knowles noted that Lancashire dialect was still spoken in the city of Liverpool in 1830, before the period of mass immigration from Ireland that led the dialect of the city to change radically. [4] Modern Liverpool speech is usually treated as a separate dialect, named Scouse.

  6. Sound correspondences between English accents - Wikipedia

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    In the vowels chart, a separate phonetic value is given for each major dialect, alongside the words used to name their corresponding lexical sets. The diaphonemes for the lexical sets given here are based on RP and General American; they are not sufficient to express all of the distinctions found in other dialects, such as Australian English.

  7. English language in Northern England - Wikipedia

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    Yorkshire dialect [22] [23] A survey published in 2022 found that compared to the findings of the Survey of English Dialects carried out in the first half of the twentieth century, the edges of many dialect regions have shifted. Furthermore, there are transitional zones between dialects where towns, such as those between Manchester and ...

  8. Cardiff English - Wikipedia

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    The formation of the modern Cardiff accent has been cited as having an Irish influence, similar to the influence of Liverpool's Scouse accent, given both cities' status as major world ports. [2] This argument can also be made for nearby ports of Newport and Barry, which also attracted internal migrants during the industrial revolution.

  9. Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States

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    (slang, derogatory) foolish person, used esp. in northern England but also common elsewhere. Derived from the Northern English term pillicock, a dialect term for penis, although the connection is rarely made in general use. pinch * to steal. pisshead (vulgar) someone who regularly gets heavily drunk (cf. BrE meaning of pissed).