Topic: Can We Vote or Something?

[Stephen Lindsay]

Domi

that was class!!!

[Razor]

And heres what YOU lot think us Mancs sound like?

Mancs


mmmm

[Vindaloo-crazy]

Dat seemed well Manc to me mate, youse all talk like dat.

[Peripatetic Phil]

And now, Taste Tester, you can compare all of these examples with genuine recordings made around the country, and see if you can work out from where our curry-loving linguists really originate :

        http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/recordings/

Sadly the couple from Boughton Monchelsea (about two miles from here) sound more like Londoners than real Kentish folk : my maternal grandfather was a Man of Kent, and his accent was distinctly more rural than this couple sound.

** Phil.

[Secret Santa]

And heres what YOU lot think us Mancs sound like?

Only the posh ones ray!   ;D

[Razor]

Only the posh ones ray!   ;D

 ;D ;D ;D

[Razor]

Phil,

Don't think that the Mancunian accent in your link wasn't accurate at all.  The fella sound more North Eastern than North Western, nevermind Mancunian.  The Salford accent and Mancunian accent are basically the same, no difference at all.

Still, it's a subject that fascinates me.

Ray

[Peripatetic Phil]

Phil,

Don't think that the Mancunian accent in your link wasn't accurate at all.  The fella sound more North Easter than North Western, nevermind Mancunian. 

Do you happen to know which recording it was ?  There are at least four separate sets of (allegedly) Mancunian informants.

** Phil.

[Razor]

Hi Phil,

It was the Manchester, Greater Manchester one. The other three were, Salford, Bury and Oldham.  I didn't listen to the Bury and Oldham examples but they should be typical of a Lancastrian accent, and not Mancunian.

Ray

[Peripatetic Phil]

Interesting.  To my ear, they don't really have the same accent, but in voice clip 2, the chap who used the term "little b@st@rds" where the previous speaker had been speaking of scallies, chavs and so on, sounded the most Mancunian to me, whereas the "scallie/chav" speaker had an accent which I personally would have found hard to place.

** Phil.