#i don’t recall if it’s in the historic county of Lancashire or Cheshire | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

loki-zen · 2 years ago

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i do think there are various ways in which (esp middle to upper class coded) southern english deviates from american english more than some other english dialects and this means that there are uses that sound weird to americans that don’t sound weird to me but which i don’t personally use

#‘pants’ for trousers is not uncommon in northern english dialects for instance #and is the primary term in eg the Bolton dialect #(a region within Greater Manchester)#i don’t recall if it’s in the historic county of Lancashire or Cheshire #for reference the borough of Manchester itself is in the historic county of Lancashire #but Wigan of Wigan Kebab/ smack pey wet fame is historical county of Cheshire #but still culturally greater manchester #if you are from yorkshire the Cheshire people are more weird than the lancashire people #bc lancashire borders yorkshire and i am from the bordering side of yorkshire #so yes the smack pey wet guys are bizzare to me too #if you are american it might be entertaining to look up the geographical distances involved here #my country dense bro

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