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It used to be when I was growing up you could tell a persons origins from their accent , I grew up in Great Harwood (part of Greater Hyndburn) and it was easy to tell the difference from someone who originated from say Blackburn , Burnley or Accrington , (not so easy for someone from outside the local area to notice but there was a difference and it was noted by the locals) I'm wondering if its the same today. Does Accrington still have it own "accent" ?

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theres a differece between Hyndburn and Rossendale, it became apparent to me when I lived and worked there for a few years

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At 14 I left school and had to travel to Rising Bridge every day, for a few weeks, there was a different twang at every bus stop.

In the 1980's face ache an me were in Fife Scotland, went into a garden center in Cupar, and the chap who owned it said are you from Blackburn,
my reply after a few seconds choking, said neau, she is, I'm from ACCRINGTON.

Retlaw

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as someone who is not from accy i would say yes

the most noticable thing for me is 'the buzz'

i am catching the buzz.......eh?

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Well i was born in burnley, raised in padiham and moved here when i got married 10 years ago, i noticed a big difference with the Accrington accent, main thing being it made us padihammers sound thick!!! lol luckily my kids have an accy accent and my padiham parents now take the mick out of them.!!!

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I was born in Blackburn, lived in Accy from when I was about 3/4 lived here til about 16, then moved to Burnley for a couple of yrs then moved back here and apparently one of the guys that comes in the shop says a have a right Burnley twang:(

They reckon I don't sound like I am from Accrington

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There is definitely a difference in the accent of those from Burnley.....wayer, over thayer, on the stayers. :D

I can also tell if a person is from Blackburn or Darwen, they have their own slight accent

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I can tell someone whos from Blackburn or Accrington. And telling someone from Burnley is easy. I work in Rawtenstall and can now tell if someone comes from Rawtenstall or Bacup.

My Mum can sometimes tell if someone comes from Accrington or Oswaldtwistle. I'm not quite that good!

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burnley folk ( dingles ) are from yorkshire
of course its a different accent :do-one:

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I was always tuned in listening for local accents, for the seventeen years I lived in London.

Because people from here are so friendly, they never minded when I used to go up and ask them where they were from.:D

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When I started playing Stronghold medieval war game, I noticed that the different type of soldier had been given different regional accents

eg Pikemen were Lancastrian, Archers were geordies, Macemen were Yorkies, Tunnelers were welsh etc. etc

I was on a gaming bulletin board then and when I pointed this out, the yanks said that they all sounded the same to them - only the english players had noticed the accents.

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i dont notice the diferent accents, i only do when is like from scotland or ireland or wales or liverpool, accrington dont have an accent to me

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So - you have to have one to know one

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erm......since when was burnley in yorkshire?

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Now i don`t live there but still work there i`m always winding them up saying its Yorkshire......:D

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they've always been in a world of their own them dingles:D

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Could`nt agree more...and i`m ex burnley!!!! lol

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i used to live in brierfield (next to burnley) and it was usually refered to as brierstan and i once got on the bus(buzz) and said brierfield and the driver said 'ahh, brierstan, the holy city, i know it well' lol

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It get referred to as much worse now!!

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irrelavant they wouldn't be aware if it moved to Essex.:D

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Pmsl.........Keep `em coming.:D

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Naughty, Naughty

Reedley is next to Burnley:eek:

For my sins I was born in Brierfield

Was a great place to be brought up in and now I live in Barrowford and reminds me of how Brierfield used to be where everybody knows each other and says "Hello" when passing:)

So I'm not sure if I am a Dingle?:confused:

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Barrowford is nice & posh!!! so that must mean you`re a POSH dingle!!! LOL.

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think we will have to call you a POngle :hehetable

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"You can take the man out of Brierfield but you can't take Brierfield out of the man":D

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Have they not got enough with Essex Girls cashy, without foisting the dingles on them as well:D:D

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nah mate it would make the essex girls look good.:D;)

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Never thought of that cashy, well couldn't make them look worse really:D

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My fella moved up here to get away from them "Essex girls"


Now look what the poor sod's got:rolleyes::D

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A friend I have in darwen who said I said Down and Town different to him... I don't know how to type the difference in sound though... just that he said the OW sound 'properly' lol. I notice the difference and it is definitely different in Accy to Darwen. Burnley accent is easy to spot I agree.

Apparently I have lost my prominent Accy accent, perhaps that is due to going to uni (?)

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Your'e as much of a Dingle as me :D

One side of my family are generations of Brierfielders. I used to go to school there and my daughter recently finished Reedley school.

We moved out 7 years ago, it was becoming unbearable. Totally agree with it being a great place to grow up years ago. Wouldn't bring a dog up there now though :(

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I think accy people who live in the burnley road/huncoat district have a twang of burnley accent, and blackburn road district/church have a twang of blackburn accent. it dosent take albert einstein to work out that these areas majorities follow the team of there accent.

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I live nearer Blackburn Rd than Burnley Rd. Always an exception to the rule :D

Where do Stanley supporters live ? ;)

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I once stayed overnight on the border between France and Italy, and in the 'local' the natives spoke a mixture of French and Italian.

It seems that the phenomenon is common in countries with land borders, but we, being an island, don't have it.

It may have been like that here before the welsh and scottish languages became almost extinct

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I live in the far reaches/or outpost of the Dingle Empire:eek:

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Aye down town is what denotes an Accy accent - lots of people at college picked me up on it.

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I've been away from Padiham for the last 27 years, but I still slip back into the accent after a few days back home.:eek:

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When I started work in the 50s, I went to Burnley and the men I worked with laughed at me saying I came on t'buzz every day. They went on t'buss. That isn't actually accent, just pronouncing a word differently. There are lots of these differences within Lancashire. Oldhamers drink wayter. Some folk don't go hooam, they go wom.
Wiganners/Boltonians introduce the word fer't into their sentences - Ah'm off down t'town fer do t'shopping' -Pure old English. Certainly I can tell an East Lancashire accent from one from elsewhere in the county, but I cannot tell the difference between Gt Harwood and Accy.

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I dont talk slowly, i jabber lol

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My heart goes out to you!
I too live with one of them!

Aint it hard work trying to get em to talk English;):D

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Ha ha!

I get him to practise cAstle instead of caaaastle lol

He takes the mick out of me as much as I take it out of him:D

His parents are still in Essex so now they wind him up too saying that he is beginning to sound like a Northener
(He don't like that:) lol)

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lol, sounds so familiar. We had family up from "dahn sahth" a few months ago and us northern lot had hysterics at them trying to buy a "boh ooow" of " cohwk" :D

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Enlighten me!

Not even I know what that is lol

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bottle of coke i reckon accylass.:) i know cos i speak refined.:D;)

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My late husband was a Yorkshireman, from Bradford. That particular city almost has a language of its own. He didn't have much of a Yorkshire accent, having left there to join the RAF when he was 17, but he always referred to "Bratford" and the difference between pillars and pillows was something he never got to grips with. :p

I remember once, before we were married, getting a bus to West End. The fare was 4d (eat your heart out!) and Colin asked the conductor (remember them?) for two fours. In his accent this came out as "two fowers" and the conductor looked blank and said, "Yer wot?". It took a while to sort out. :D

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Yeah I thought about that too:D

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Yes it was a bottle of coke but he really struggled to be understood. :D