How to speak Manc Bc. Martina Ez-Zahrany šToday is gonna be the day that they're gonna throw it back to you šBy now you shoulda, somehow, realised what you gotta do šI don't believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now š š šWho is the interpret? OASIS Liam & Noel Gallagher Manchester-born singers Manchester North West England Mancunian šBrE /mæŋˈkjuː.ni.ən/ šIrregular demonym (= a term describing inhabitants of a particular place) š (compare: Liverpool – Liverpudlian, Glasgow – Glaswegian, Newcastle – Geordie, etc.) š šN a person from Manchester in north-west England šAdj. from or connected with the city of Manchester in north-west England (e.g. M. singer) š šLatin word for the area „Mancunium“ History šRoman fort Mamucium - AD 79 š6th, 7th century - Northumbria šBritons, Angles, Danes š14th cent. – Flemish weavers š16th cent. – wool trade šIndustrial Revolution – cotton-mills, cotton import šTransport – Bridgewater Canal 1761, Liverpool and Manchester Railway 1830 š š History š'Cottonopolis' – population explosion – Irish 15% in 1851, Scottish 2% in 1871, Welsh šJewish immigrants from Central and Eastern Europe šGermans, Italians šManchester Ship Canal 1894 – workers from Africa, Asia, Middle East, Scandinavia šChinatown – second in the UK, third largest in Europe šAsian community š North vs South šGreat Vowel Shift – North less affected šFoot x strut split (South) š š/ʌ/ x /ʊ/ as in butter, up š/ɑ:/ x /a/ as in bath, grass, laugh š šMiddle North (Wells) – densely populated industrial belt, Manchester, Huddersfield, Bradford, Leeds, Sheffield – typical northern accents šGeographically very close to Liverpool, but markedly different accent; much more similar to Lancashire and southern Yorkshire (Trudgill) š Manc x RP (vowels) šNo /ʌ/ vowel š/u:/ in book, look, cook šNo /a:/ vowel šNasality (twang) šFinal –y (in words like really) realised as /e/ instead of RP /i:/ Manc x RP (consonants) šT-glottalization /ʔ/ as in get out of, alright šFinal /ŋ/ as in thing, long realised as /ŋg/ šH-dropping word initial as in hand /ænd/ šTh-fronting – three=free (homophones) š šNon-rhotic in comparison to some other accents in the same area š š Grammatical features šRP: I was sitting x Manc: I was stood šRP: I was, he/she was x Manc: I were, he/she were šTag: innit šRP: You have written/He has taken x Manc: You have wrote/He has took Manc slang šRhyming slang (compare to Cockney) š Newton Heath = teeth š Salford Docks = socks š šKahoot šManc slang in a poem (by Manc poet Argh Kid) šhttps://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/argh-kid-national-poetry-day- 11991211 š Where can you hear/listen to Manc? šCoronation Street (soap opera) šShameless (comedy) šLife on Mars (BBC crime drama) šIdeal (BBC sitcom) š šVOQUENT – database of voices, voice actors according to accents šhttps://www.voquent.com/voice-actors/find/?search=search&search=Search&uniqueAccent[]=1117&free-te xt=&voice-id-input=&&pagenum=1 š šYT: š Learn Liam Gallagher‘s Mancunian Accent (Eat Sleep Dream English) š https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibTUQHkBiWM&ab_channel=EatSleepDreamEnglish š 746. Karl Pilkington‘s 3-Minute Wonders / Manchester Accent (Luke‘s English Podcast) š https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-EHQSbAXRk&ab_channel=Luke%27sEnglishPodcast š Lancashire vs Yorkshire Accent, Culture, and Making Tea (English Like a Native) š https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEyulxp8up0&ab_channel=EnglishLikeANative šSources: š šhttps://www.mmu.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/story/?id=3687 šhttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/oct/01/ya-cheekeh-monkeh-recording-manchester-accent-dive rsity šhttps://www.bl.uk/collection-items/manchester-accent-stan-and-vera-working-life-before-world-war-t wo šhttps://www.dynamicdialects.ac.uk/accent-map/ šhttps://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/BritishAccents šhttps://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/demonyms-linguistics-nicknames šhttps://lagb-education.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/manchester.pdf šhttp://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/37766/1/Howley_2015_PhDThesis.pdf š š šWells, J.C. Accents of English 2. The British Isles šTrudgill, P. The Dialects of England šHughes, A., Trudgill, P., Watt, D. English Accents & Dialects š šThank you for your attention!