Why Potters’ accent is different from Her Majesty’s: the English language in Staffordshire

[@silverback888]

Excellent lecture on the origins of our historic accent. However a lot of that old Potters tongue is not used anymore. In my opinion there is a modern distinct difference of three areas within the Potteries. Alsager, Talke and Kidsgove pronounce the word "book" as "buck". The City area Hanely,Stoke,Fenton and Longton say "boowk" more like a nicer sounding Scouse sound. The Staffordshire Moorlands would say "bowk" a totally over emphasis on more like a joking type of talk. For instance "get thee skowl bowks hight and get thee sums dun". (Get your school books out and do your homework) That's how my grandad used to talk. However the younger generation simply do not have any old accent in them, it's sadly been eradicated. I must put what I know of the Potters accent on KZbin one day ✨

[@con3594]

Ar dunna knoest anyone in Towk or Kidcrew, who says buck, luck, or cuck. mar lady wust bown n bred in Kidcrew and er dunna say buck, luck or cuck ers oways sed book, look, cook, lark may, n ar wust bown a couple males dine the road from Anley duck.

[@sisi2484]

Potteries is a wierd accent ... Its like a cross of eastmids , southlancs/cheshire , and north wales english accent West midland is an anomoly in dialects ..defo influenced by welsh... cumbrian and merseyside accents have similar sounds to WM/warwickshire etc at times ..the british celtic links in western dialects get over loooked