A major feature of the traditional Manc accent is still going strong in northern parts of the city, but is disappearing from people’s speech elsewhere.
It’s long been thought that north and south Manchester accents sound different. Dr Maciej Baranowski spoke to 122 people from areas within the M60 to find out if there is any linguistic evidence of this.
Now, the linguistics expert says the ‘north-force distinction’ is disappearing in the south and centre of the city. This quirk of the accent means words like ‘four’ and ‘wore’ have a different vowel sound to ‘for’ and ‘war’.
