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Old 11-06-2008, 10:44   #40
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Re: local accents

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp View Post
I don't think I have an Accy accent. I'm a bit mixed up. Having spent a lot of time in Ireland I tend to slip into a bit Irish sounding if I'm talking to Irish people. And now of course living with a Southerner I pick up on some of that too - mind you he's learning to speak properly since he came up here.

Oh yes, you can definitely tell a Burnley or a Rossendale accent. Everyone I know from Burnley seems to speak v e r r e e s l o w l e e compared to people from Accy and Blackburn and say "Aah" instead of "I" as in "Aah w e nn t o ww t "
I dont talk slowly, i jabber lol
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