How many accents can you discern and place within your local area?
Manchester Met is doing a study on the accents in the region.
https://www.manchestervoices.org/map/#/
I've always been curious about this because there are so many accents you can place around here. Sometimes it's possible to place people within a couple of miles based on accent alone. For example, Bury and Bolton are adjacent but discernable. Likewise Oldham and Rochdale.
I don't know if it's because it's local to me it's more obvious, in the same way race blindness works?
For example, to me there are just two Scouse accents - regular and Beatles/posh-Scouse.
To what extent, in other regions or cities across the UK, are individual sub-dialects discernable from each other? Particularly within the confines of a relatively small geographic area?
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