The Northern regional type of English pronunciation

The Northern regional type of English pronunciation is characterized by features that are common to all the dialects used in the northern part of Eng­land.

The main distinctions of the Northern type of English pronunciation, as opposed to RP, are as follows:

(a) /æ/ is more open and more retracted back, as in /a/ (e.g."back","bad").

(b) /ɑ:/ is fronted compared with RP /ɑ:/ and it approximates to /æ/ in
words which do not contain "r" in spelling (e.g. "glass", "after"),

(c) /ʊ/ is used instead of /ʌ/ (e.g. "cup", "love", "much"), so there is no
distinction between words like "could" and "cud", "put" and "putt".

(d) / ǝʊ / is pronounced as a monophthongal / ɔ:/ (e.g. "go", "home").

(e) /e/ or are pronounced instead of /ei/ (e.g. "may", "say", "take").

(f) / ɒə/ is widely used, so they distinguish words like "pore" and "paw"

(g) All tones are drawled and speech is generally slower than in Southern English. The Low Rising Tone is used much oftener than in RP. For example, "Lancashire is the most thickly populated county in England" is pronounced with the Low Rise on the word “Lancashire “. All that tends to give a sing—song quality to speech.

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