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Originally Posted by katex
Nah, you're wrong West Ender .. bewk is more Yorkshire .. us Lancashire folks have never heard of diphthongs .. so would be more like book as in 'Boo' with a 'k' at the end. LOL
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Hey, I'm Lancashire folk too you know.
Perhaps I made the error of putting in slightly misleading vowels to illustrate the point. OK, for the sake of nitpicking, let's say boooook, loooook and coooook - with the double O as in "hoof".
West Yorkshire has a more "downwardly" pronounced double O, more like bo-uk. It's hard to transcribe without the phonetic pronunciation alphabet on my keyboard.
I love accents, have studied them (and spoken them) all my life, and I can differentiate some accents to within a few miles, especially near the places I've lived - Lancs, Rutland, Brum, Coventry, Yorks, Durham and now Cheshire - in that order.
Now, no more thread hijacking.
