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The location of Stoke-on-Trent on a map of England. Potteries dialect is mostly concentrated in this area of the country. Potteries is an English dialect of the West Midlands of England, almost exclusively in and around Stoke-on-Trent , Staffordshire .
West Midlands accents do not have the trap–bath split much like Northern England English, so cast is pronounced [kast] rather than the [kɑːst] pronunciation of most southern accents. The northern limit of the [ɑː] in many words crosses England from mid-Shropshire to The Wash, passing just south of Birmingham.
Stoke-on-Trent (often abbreviated to Stoke) is a city and unitary authority area in Staffordshire, England. It has an estimated population of 259,965 (as of 2022), [ 6 ] [ 7 ] making it the largest settlement in Staffordshire and one of the largest cities of the Midlands .
A range of accents are spoken in the West Midlands (in the major towns and conurbations (The Black Country, Birmingham, Coventry, Stoke-on-Trent (considered by many to have tones of scouse), and Wolverhampton) and in rural areas (such as in Herefordshire and south Worcestershire).
Dialects can be classified at broader or narrower levels: within a broad national or regional dialect, various more localised sub-dialects can be identified, and so on. The combination of differences in pronunciation and use of local words may make some English dialects almost unintelligible to speakers from other regions without any prior ...
Stoke-on-Trent Potters, Clay Heads, Stokies, Jug Heads, Pot Heads, Monkey-Dusters (pejorative) Stowmarket Stowmartians Stranraer Cleyholers Stratford-upon-Avon Fads (acronym, "Fat American Dodgers"; the town is over-touristed) Strood Long Tails, Stroodles Stroud Stroudies Sunderland
East Midlands English is a dialect, including local and social variations spoken in most parts of East Midlands England. It generally includes areas east of Watling Street [n 1] (which separates it from West Midlands English), north of an isogloss separating it from variants of Southern English (e.g. Oxfordshire) and East Anglian English (e.g. Cambridgeshire), and south of another separating ...
Wells noted that there were no exceptions to this rule in Stoke-on-Trent, whereas there were for other areas with the [ɪŋɡ] pronunciation, such as Liverpool. [25] Dialect verbs are used, for example am for are, ay for is not (related to ain't), bay for are not, bin for am or, emphatically, for are. Hence the following joke dialogue about bay ...