Lancashire dialect
Northwest England speech
Lancashire dialect refers to the varieties of English spoken in Lancashire, a county in northwestern England.
The dialect retains features from Old English and Norse, including distinctive vowel sounds and vocabulary like tha for "you" and nowt for "nothing." Lancashire speech varies considerably across the region, from the urban accents of Manchester and Liverpool to rural varieties in the Ribble Valley.
He speaks broad Lancashire.
- double negativesPaired denials in speech
- nowtNorthern English for nothing
- vowel lengtheningProlonging spoken sounds
- brewSteeped or fermented drink
- summatDialectal "something"
bobbins · elision · Bolton · Mancunian · Wigan · chuffed · Lancastrian · Blackpool · cotton mill · Preston · hotpot · black pudding · thee · whippet · clogs · flat cap · cobbles · mills
- LancashireLancaster, Blackpool, Blackburn, Burnley, Nelson
- Northern dialectsScots, Geordie, Northumbrian, Northern English, Doric
- British AccentsGeordie, Brummie, Queen's English, RP, Glaswegian
- Chorley
Lancashire dialectRP
Prestige British accent
BBC English · Queen's English · King's English · Oxford English · public school accent