English Accents and Dialects: An Introduction to Social and Regional Varieties of English in the British Isles, Fifth Edition (The English Language Series) by Arthur Hughes & Peter Trudgill & Dominic Watt

Author:Arthur Hughes, & Peter Trudgill & Dominic Watt [Trudgill, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2013-01-11T05:00:00+00:00

Notes

1 Two pound of apples (l. 23): see page 33.

2 Done as past tense of do (l. 27): see page 28.

3 Aye = yes (l. 30): common in the north of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.

7 West Midlands

This is the accent spoken in Birmingham, Wolverhampton and a number of other towns in that area.

Map 5.6 West Midlands

7.1 The accent of the West Midlands is northern in that:

/a/ is found in words such as dance, daft and so on (see pages 60–62; WL 21–26)

Pairs of words like put and putt are not distinct, /ʊ/ being the vowel in both (see pages 59–60; WL 4, 5).

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