Tunde Babalola is a musician and part of the Grammy Award-nominated production duo Future Cut. He has gone from the underground Drum and Bass scene to curating some of pop’s biggest hits, to writing a new Broadway musical titled The Ten, which will be directed by Tony Award winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson. Rochdale News | News Headlines | Do you speak 'Manc', 'Lancashire' or 'posh'? First findings from largest ever study of Greater Manchester accents and dialects revealed". Rochdale Online. 5 October 2021 . Retrieved 11 April 2022. It has been described as 'twangy' [1] whilst also being labelled 'euphonic' [2] and has been voted as the sexiest accent in England. [3] Additionally it has been claimed Mancunian is one of the most desirable and friendliest accents in the UK. [4] It will explore the themes of education, sport, comedy, crime, music and race, and include interviews with the famous and not-so-famous, all in search of pinning down the elusive Mancunian identity. Robinson, Jonnie (5 November 2013). " 'angin in Mancs and rhoticity in Lancs". Sound and vision blog. British Library . Retrieved 22 March 2023.

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Now if you are a Manchester local you may notice a few references to the characters of the book Jabez Clegg and Joshua Brooks throughout the city. Wells, John C. (September 1970), "Local Accents in England and Wales", Journal of Linguistics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 6 (2): 231–252, doi: 10.1017/s0022226700002632, S2CID 143523909

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About David Scott: David Scott is a father, author, poet, musician, and BBC presenter. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, and Politiken. He was born, raised, and lives in Manchester. The book has won the Berlin Literature Prize and was first translated into English by Michael Hulse in 1996. Turton, Danielle (2014), Variation in English /l/: Synchronic reflections of the life cycle of phonological processes, PhD thesis, University of Manchester {{ citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link) Dave Haslam is a writer, broadcaster, and DJ. He DJed over 450 times at the Haçienda nightclub in Manchester. Here are some of the most notable dialectal words, phrases and sayings in Mancunian. Note that not all of these are used by the city's entire population:

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Mancunians will tell our story, chronicling six years across the Millennium – when success, money, music, drinking, youth cultures, and seeds of gentrification marked the end of one era and the dawn of another. The play seems even more remarkable when you learn that Delaney wrote it when she was only 19 years old! Steve Armstrong is a former business executive, now known for, amongst other things, selling the United We Stand fanzine and rescuing dogs.It can sort of be described as the Manchester he sees in his mind, rather than directly about the city he lives in.

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It’s also a good book to bring if you are going to watch a match one of the sports bars in Manchester. You can do some trivia games while waiting for the game to start and having a pint. Andy Votel is a musician, DJ, record producer, graphic designer, and co-founder of Twisted Nerve Records and the reissue label Finders Keepers Records. This is an excellent book to dive into if you are at university studying politics, economics, history, sociology and even geography or just if you have an interest in these ideas.Bailey, George (2019), "Ki(ng) in the north: Effects of duration, boundary, and pause on post-nasal [ɡ]-presence", Laboratory Phonology, 10 (3): 3, doi: 10.5334/labphon.115 A further trait of Manchester English, especially among younger residents, is the pronunciation of /s/ before /tɹ, tj, tʃ/ as [ʃ] in words such as street, district, stupid, moisture and mischief. [33] This is a phenomenon known as /s/-retraction and is also found in various other varieties of English. Through a mixture of memoir and interviews with well-known Mancunians such as Guy Garvey, Tunde Babalola, Sylvia Tella, Badly Drawn Boy, and Stan Chow, David Scott portrays the city at the turn of the century in a way never seen before.