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Attempt at a Mancheste accent


So in the US, there are only a few dozen accentds but in the UK, where English has been spoken for a lont longer, we know that her accent is not South Manchester, where, for some reason, script writers keep saying she is from.

Shaw's stage play 'Pygmalion - made into the film 'My Fair Lady' opens with the scene showing a man able to locate London accents to a borough and less.

Also, in the UK and most of Europe, people give their place of birth to the nearest major town or a state/county, not to a minor district

But she is great, her home town has a big sign saying

'WELCOME TO HOLLINWOOD' and I know the guy who had the first T Shirt printed

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She was born in Moston. It's a suburb of Manchester. So she has a Mancunian accent.

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I am from Manchester and I can assure you she has a mancunian accent

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