Liverpool accent

The Liverpool accent, also known as Scouse, is the particular accents local to the northern English port city of Liverpool and adjoining urban areas of Lancashire and the Wirral region of Cheshire. The Liverpool accent is highly distinctive, and wholly different to the accents used in neighbouring regions of Lancashire and Cheshire.

Lancashire is believed by many to have the most diverse selection of spoken accents of any English county or district. This is considered to be due to the large amount of immigration into the Liverpool area from Ireland, Wales, Scotland, the rest of northern England and even the Caribbean in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

The characteristic features of the accent of the region include

• A fast, highly inflected manner of speech, with a range rising and falling tones untypical of most of northern England.
• The final letters of many words are often lost: "get" becomes "gerr", "all" becomes "orr".
• The tongue tends to be swallowed, cutting off nasal passages and making speech sound as if the speaker has a cold.
• "th" is often pronounced as "d", for example "there" becomes "dere" usage "oarite dere la!" ("all right there, lad!")
• distinctive rolling "ck" sound from the Welsh influence, sounds like the speaker is clearing their throat! usage:"gerr off me backk will yer!"
• "arr, ey!" distinctive sound of a disappointed Scouser.