Accent Coventry

1 accent

1.1 origins
1.2 coventry , birmingham accents
1.3 coventry accent on television

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origins

coventry in linguistic sense looks both ways, towards both west , east midlands. 1 thousand years ago, extreme west of warwickshire, today designate birmingham , black country separated coventry , east warwickshire forest of arden, resulting inferior means of communication. west warwickshire settlements smaller in comparison coventry which, 14th century, england s third city. far anglo-saxon times coventry—situated was, close watling street—was trading , market post between king alfred s saxon mercia , danelaw england consequent merging of dialects.

coventry , birmingham accents

phonetically accent of coventry similar northern english in not have trap-bath split, cast pronounced /kæst/ rather /kɑːst/. yet clipped, flatter vowels in accent contain traces of estuary english (t-glottaling), increasingly amongst young since 1950. 1 notable feature television producers have been apt overlook distinction between coventry , birmingham accents. in birmingham , black country old , cold may pronounced owd , cowd , linguistic feature stops starkly 1 moves beyond solihull in general direction of coventry, possible approximation of arden forest divide perhaps. yet accents alter briskly in particular part of midlands, north warwickshire (bedworth & nuneaton) displays increased east midlands dialect features. again, south, general southern english feature of longer in words such bath , path (becoming nonce words barth , parth pronounced in non-rhotic accent) starts occur regardless of class or geodemographic grouping across east west band of settlements somewhere between southam , banbury, positioning coventry right @ edge of england s phonetic crossroads.

coventry accent on television

dramatic representations on film have been uneven down years, ranging yorkshire sounding builders visiting queen vic in eastenders [1987] black country sounding factory workers in jeffrey archer adaptation first among equals (1984). bbc s 2009 documentary bombing of coventry contained useful phonetic data on coventry accent in form of interviews coventrians. recent performance actress becci gemmell, playing coventry character joyce in bbc drama land girls, gave more accurate phonetic representation of accent.