The Scouse accent is one of the most distinctive and well known in the UK.
Those outside of the city region can usually identify a scouser by the words and phrases we use, like 'Asda vs The Asda' and 'lolly ice vs ice lolly'.
PhD researcher Rachel Byrne, from Wirral, studied the scouse linguistic identity for her thesis and said her findings were "interesting". Speaking about the dialect, she told the ECHO : "It's absolutely vital to Liverpool. People say it's that sense of community, you feel close to people even if you don't know them directly.
