[blazey]

I was talking to a professor of linguistics one night in the college bar at uni and he knew quite a bit about the lancashire accent and how it differs from town to town and he was fascinated by my accent and was interested by the differences.

For example, the O in town, down, frown is pronounced differently in ossy/accy to darwen. My friends from Darwen used to laugh at me for it all the time (til I corrected myself!)

I think the accent in accy is changing a bit. My little sister has an accent that I can't even copy, though this may be due to my own accent changing since moving away to uni and being around so many different people.

I still hear people saying the usual accy things though like neht, reyt, tehn when I am at home, so I think it is the same but it may be getting a bit milder. The words we use have changed (though I too have never heard anyone say gas for fuel) but that is to be expected as we become more influenced by TV and the internet and such.