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Re: local accents
When I started work in the 50s, I went to Burnley and the men I worked with laughed at me saying I came on t'buzz every day. They went on t'buss. That isn't actually accent, just pronouncing a word differently. There are lots of these differences within Lancashire. Oldhamers drink wayter. Some folk don't go hooam, they go wom.
Wiganners/Boltonians introduce the word fer't into their sentences - Ah'm off down t'town fer do t'shopping' -Pure old English. Certainly I can tell an East Lancashire accent from one from elsewhere in the county, but I cannot tell the difference between Gt Harwood and Accy.
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