Accents of Northern England
 By Kristína Bošácka


Map of Yorkshire Liverpool Maps and Orientation: Liverpool, Merseyside, England
1.Yorkshire    2.Geordie    3.Scouse


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Phonetic features
• Yorkshire English is non-rhotic, which indicates that the 'r' is dropped in pronunciation, e.g.,
“hard” /hɑːd/, “four” /fɔː/.
•The short vowel /ʌ/ as in words “love”, “some” changes to /ʊ/ in Yorkshire accent: /lʊv/ and
/sʊm/.
•The long vowel /ɑː/ becomes a short vowel /a/ or sometimes /æ/ in the Yorkshire accent. Example:
“bath” /bɑːθ/ becomes /baθ/, or “chance” /tʃɑːns/ becomes /tʃans/.
•The glottal stop [ʔ] , H is rarely sounded

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Phonetic features of Geordie
•The Geordie accent is non-rhotic, although it might vary from person to person.
•/ʌ/ changes to /ʊ/
•words ending with -er, -or to be pronounced with the sound /a/. It is a stronger pronunciation of
the shwa sound /ə/. Examples: “later” /ˈleɪta/, “over”/ˈəʊva/.
• 't ', 'k' and 'p’ glottalized
•-ing -> “dancing”, “kissing” has an /n/ instead of /ŋ/
•Geordie has a more musical quality to its intonation, with a lot of rising and falling intonation
patterns.

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Phonetic features of Scouse:
•The 'r' in Scouse is pronounced as a voiced tap 'ɾ' if followed by a vowel sound, e.g.,“very”
/ˈveɾi/, “ring” /ɾɪŋ/. In other cases, Scouse is non-rhotic, e.g., “bird” /bɜːd/, “first” /ˈfɜːst/.
•TH-stopping, replace /θ, ð/ with /t, d/, as in /diːz triː/ for “these three”.
•In some short words ending with 't', the /t/ sound can become /h/, e.g., “not” /nɒh/, “it” /ɪh
• In some words, the /ɜ/ and /ɜ:/ sound is replaced by /œː/, the tongue is more forward, as in
“sir” /sœːr/, “bird” /bœːd/.
•“back” /bɑːx/, “crime” /xraɪm/ - certain underlying plosive sounds are produced as affricates or
fricatives