Is it too controversial to throw supper/dinner/tea into the mix here? (View Post)

Indeed. It's fascinating to observe how HMQE2's accent evolved over the years. (View Post)

Not exactly. "ow" words like down or town are pronounced doon and toon but stone wouldn't be. The vowel sound in stone sits in a kind of no man's land, it's not quite oh, not… (View Post)

I am a fairly frequent driver up the A1 and it is interesting to observe the shift from Anglo Saxon to Norse place names, it occurs fairly abruptly around Grantham and to my mind that marks the borde… (View Post)

No, look at the map - the "cone" pronunciation is most prevalent in the midlands, the deindustrialised north and the Thames estuary, prime Leave areas, and least prevalent in the Remain hea… (View Post)