My friend was asking the shopkeeper "Have you any biscuits?", but in Lancashire Dialect it was pronounced "Es te ony biscuits?". The lady shopkeeper assumed he was French and responded in French!
A traveller who met Jungly Barry in Goa claimed that he spoke with a Lancashire accent. And the date Barry claimed to have been born, March 11 1938, tallies with the birth of a Barry T.
A spokesperson for Lancashire Constabulary said the woman speaks in a Liverpudlian accent. She also has a tattoo on her left arm bearing the name Michael, as well as a heart and feather.
"Accent change is often like a puddle ... the "'r's are very weak" Researchers also said that while rhotic Blackburn and East Lancashire speakers may be in the minority in England, they were ...