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Originally Posted by groove
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.
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My grandmother could still lip read into her seventies a thing she learnt working in the mill from the age of 14, the mill towns do have very simulator accents but there is a difference say between Accy and Burnley and especially the Rossendale Valley, I working down the Valley for about 5 years in the 70s and I can still pick out a Valley accent even today