Is the Accy accent changing?
 

Alright, I admit I am 20 years out date (been living in the USA), but I'm always suprised at the creepring Americana I alsways run across when I'm back in England (or on these boards for that matter).

I don't remember people commonly using the words 20+ years ago

guy - meaning bloke or chap
gas - meaning petrol
"like" - as a pause in sentences (he was, like, really cool)
cool - meaning great or wonderful

I am imagining things?

Drew

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Jeesh ... Use those words all the time myself ... have done for years .... ;)

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its all to do with the popularity of american shows

most notably friends. thats been one of the biggest influences all across the world - u can pick up alot of the words and mannerisms from people which were featured on the show

could you BE any more boring?

i dunno about gas though. i've never heard ppl sayin that.

alot of the humour on tv's now is very americanised.

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Just because the words have changed doesn't mean the accent has.

I was near Lancaster a few weeks ago and started talking to a chap who was doing some filming - he listened to me for a few minutes and then said 'Gt Harwood?' - I said, 'not far off, how can you tell' - he said 'park' - it was the way I said it.

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The Accy accent is definitely changing, innit.

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don't think accent is changing, more words that people pick up from wherever, but i'm still as broad as i always was.;)

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The Accy accent definitely has more of a Polish twang to it these days.

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Feel personally that the accent has a more definitive asian/traveller/east european lilt to it.A lot of the time i think we don't speak accringtonian anymore.I know sometimes i don't type in it.:D

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nah me neither maxwell, then i get told by some i'm nasty n insulting.:rofl38::rofl38::rofl38:

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C'mon Cashy you aint no broad;)

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Just as people mistake accent for dialect, the originator of this thread is mistaking the content of speech for accent. Several of those posting have said this . I agree too that a good test is to listen how we say' car park'.

We've getten culture - wi' a capital 'k'. Ah know - Ah wer born an'bred in Accrington . You can't BUY class.

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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.

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The only difference I can see between "gas" and "petrol" is that gas is a helluva lot cheaper;)

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the accent isnt changing its just peoples inability to speak english thats the problem