‘Manc’, ‘Lancashire’, ‘posh’ or 'Wigan': Researchers find four identifiable accents within Greater Manchester - and this is what you make of them

23.10.2021 - 20:33

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Do you speak ‘Manc’, ‘Lancashire’, ‘posh’ or 'Wigan'? That’s the question a group of sociolinguists at Manchester Metropolitan University are trying to figure out.

The Manchester Voices research project has been looking at how people speak across Greater Manchester’s ten boroughs and what people think and feel about our different accents.

The project has identified four emerging accents within Greater Manchester folk, finding that the ‘Manc’ accent is mostly situated in the city centre while residents of South Manchester, Trafford and Stockport are more likely to sound ‘posh’. Read more: Greater Manchester Police are using hire cars because its vehicles are so old and worn out Residents in Bury, Bolton, Rochdale and Oldham tend to have

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