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groove · 18-10-2011, 10:10

Don't know if this is true, but apparently our broad accent with the flat vowels etc stems from workers having to communicate with each other over the immense noise of the machinery/looms etc in the cotton mills. Makes sense when you consider most cotton towns like Accy, B'burn, Burnley etc all have similar broad accents.

18-10-2011, 10:10	#8
groove I am Banned Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: accy-scaitcliffe Posts: 397 Liked: 0 times Rep Power: 0	Re: The life of a local mill worker. Don't know if this is true, but apparently our broad accent with the flat vowels etc stems from workers having to communicate with each other over the immense noise of the machinery/looms etc in the cotton mills. Makes sense when you consider most cotton towns like Accy, B'burn, Burnley etc all have similar broad accents.