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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 .
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. [4] 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 ...
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 .
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 ...
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
The other challenge was the accent, Robbie Williams is not from Norfolk. "I have some family from Stoke, so I'm well-tuned into that accent. It was those little tweaks in the accent that we spent ...
Stoke-on-Trent or The Potteries: pop star Robbie Williams, TV presenter Anthea Turner, ex pop star and TV presenter Jonathan Wilkes. Sunderland : the accent of the rock group The Futureheads is easily detected on recordings and live performances and ex-footballer Chris Waddle.
The Staffordshire Potteries is the industrial area encompassing the six towns Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Tunstall and Stoke (which is now the city of Stoke-on-Trent) in Staffordshire, England. [1] North Staffordshire became a centre of ceramic production in the early 17th century, [2] due to the local availability of clay, salt, lead and ...