Northern accents could be gone by 2066

[Accy cyclist]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9835049/Northern-accents-dying-DISAPPEAR-2066.html

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/northern-accents-could-wiped-out-24640409

I've noticed that the 'yoof' around here are developing a London 'gangstaaaa' type accent. There's also a fairly big influx of people from the south of England moving here,due to 'cheap house prices'. Some seem quite offended when i ask where they are from.🧐 Not just northern accents,but i've read over the years of local accents and dialect disappearing all over Britain.

Your thoughts!🤔

 

[further]

I have been trying for years to get rid of mine.

 

[Oldhippy]

Whilst sad it is inevitable and has happened many times with one human group mixing with another over the centuries.

 

[Venod]

Can't see it penetrating Barnsley, I can't understand them and only live 15 mile away.

 

[MontyVeda]

they said the ginger gene was on its way out too... that was also complete nonsense

 

[Drago]

I heard this on Radio 4 today, and the lady newsreader reading the piece dutifully mispronounced pronunciation just for me.

 

[BoldonLad]

I thought TV/Radio was generally blamed for the demise of local accents?

In the area I live, many of the "old" dialect words are disappearing from use, but, I suspect that is because many of them were associated with local heavy industry (mining, shipbuilding etc) which have now largely disappeared.

There is not a great demand for a cuddy (pit-pony) in your average call-centre

 

[Baldy]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9835049/Northern-accents-dying-DISAPPEAR-2066.html

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/northern-accents-could-wiped-out-24640409

I've noticed that the 'yoof' around here are developing a London 'gangstaaaa' type accent.

Your thoughts!🤔

I think it's called Mockney a compression of mock cockney.

 

[Sharky]

Accents are bound to evolve, but 45 years is far too short to have much impact. I had a "lancashire" accent up to the age of 20, but have lived and worked in london/Kent for the last 50 years and people still detect my accent.

One thing that 2066 will bring will be the biggest celebrations that England have ever seen. Especially if you live near Hastings.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Eee bye gum.

 

[Fab Foodie]

I think it's called Mockney a compression of mock cockney.

Or Eustuarine English.....

 

[stephec]

Accents are bound to evolve, but 45 years is far too short to have much impact. I had a "lancashire" accent up to the age of 20, but have lived and worked in london/Kent for the last 50 years and people still detect my accent.

One thing that 2066 will bring will be the biggest celebrations that England have ever seen. Especially if you live near Hastings.

What's Hastings connection to the world cup?

 

[srw]

thoughts

There has been massive migration across the UK and the world for the last 500-odf years. We still have local accents. They won't die in the next 30.

My nephew, aged about 25, can flip between broad Weegie when he's talking to the kids in the class he's teaching and educated Southern when he's talking to his mother. He was brought up in Essex and the outskirts of Glasgow.

 

[srw]

What's Hastings connection to the world cup?

England have mostly lost both of them.

 

[mistyoptic]

By far the most sensible thing would be to make everyone “meet in the middle“ and talk with a Black Country accent