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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 .
H-dropping is common, in which the [h] sound is usually omitted from most words. [3] There is no Ng-coalescence. Cases of the spelling -ing are pronounced as [ɪŋɡ] rather than [ɪŋ]. 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 ...
Stoke-on-Trent "The Five Towns" or "The Six Towns" – in the novels of Arnold Bennett the area that was to become the city is referred to as "the Five Towns"; Bennett felt that the name was more euphonious than "the Six Towns" so Fenton was left out. [176] "The Potteries" – after the city's former main industry. [177] Swansea
Paddies, Huns (sectarian offensive term for pro-British Unionists), Taigs (sectarian offensive term for pro-Irish Nationalists) North Shields Cods Heeds, Fish Nabbers [citation needed] North Wales Gogs [68] Northwich Salt Boys (from Northwich Victoria F.C.) Norwich Nodgies, Canaries, Budgies (the football club colours are green and yellow ...
Similarly, Brummies generally use the word I while pronouncing it as 'oy', whereas Black Country natives instead use the dialectal term 'Ah', as in 'Ah bin', meaning I have been. Thorne (2003) has said that the accent is "a dialectal hybrid of northern, southern, Midlands , Warwickshire , Staffordshire and Worcestershire speech", also with ...
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 ...
The Oxford English Dictionary quotes 'dicky' as one of the alternative slang terms for an ass..) directly – "as soon as" or "immediately"), as in "Directly they got their money on Friday nights, the women would get the suits out of the pawn shop" [17] dodman – a term used to refer to a snail [3] dow – a pigeon [3] dwile – floorcloth [3]
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).