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Scouse is the Accent and Dialect of English found in the northern English city of Liverpool and adjoining urban areas of Merseyside and northwestern Cheshire . The Liverpool accent is highly distinctive and sounds wholly different from the accents used in the neighbouring regions of Cheshire and rural Lancashire . Inhabitants of Liverpool are often called Scousers. The word Scouse was originally a variation of Lobscouse (probably from the north German sailor's dish '' Labskaus ''), the name of a traditional dish of Mutton stew mixed with Hardtack eaten by sailors. Lancashire has one of the most diverse selections of spoken accents of any English County or region. This is thought to be due to the large amount of Immigration into the Liverpool area from Ireland , Wales , the Isle Of Man , Scotland , other parts of northern England inland from it, in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries . The influence of these speech patterns was strong in Liverpool, distinguishing the accent of its people from those of surrounding Lancashire and Cheshire. Other Northern English dialects include
PHONOLOGY The characteristic features of the accent of the region are discussed in section 4.4.10 of Wells (1982). Consonants A notable feature of Scouse is its tendency towards Lenition of Stop Consonants (Honeybone 2001, sections 4 and 5, Marotta and Barth 2005). In particular
The ''th'' sounds may be pronounced as Dental . This feature is shared with Hiberno-English . The velar nasal is usually followed by a hard sound in words where most other English accents have it at the end of a word or before a vowel, so that ''sing'' is as opposed to in Received Pronunciation . See ''Ng Coalescence'' . The sound is often a tap , similar to Scots. Vowels Features of Scouse vowels include:
OTHER FEATURES Scouse is noted for a fast, highly Accented manner of speech, with a range of rising and falling tones not typical of most of northern England. Irish influences include the pronunciation of the letter 'h' as 'haitch' and the plural of 'you' as 'youse'. There are also Idiom s shared with Hiberno-English , such as "I know where you're at" ( Standard English : "I know who you are"). Expressions include 'lah' or 'lid', as an abbreviation of lad, used to mean mate or pal, e.g. "alright lid!" SCOUSE-SPEAKING CELEBRITIES Scouse can be heard from:
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