Lancashire Red Rose You know I was once told the following by one of my bosses “Mike, you´re an intelligent lad and you´ll go far if you could just lose your accent”

My response to this was something along the lines of “What the **** has my accent got to do with the price of fish?” I didn´t work there very long, my boss was an idiot!

Its not the only time I´ve been told my accent is a problem, when I worked for Ocean software I used to work on the customer service line and was told a few times by customers, “I´m sorry I don´t understand your accent”, Mind you the other lad I used to work with had a broad mancunian accent and once received a letter from a satisfied client which read “The phone was answered by the most aggressive man with a mancunian accent……although he did solve my problem, many thanks.”

I dont sound like George Formby and I don´t see my accent as a problem as even my Japanese wife and her English speaking friends and family can understand me if I don´t speak in slang.

However if I do speak in slang, then unless your another Lancastrian then you may not understand. This is why I have included a few Lancastrian phrases and words so that you might understand any words I say to you.

My accent is part of who I am, I am a Lancastrian, and it says so on my Birth Certificate.

Place of Birth: Littleborough, Lancashire.
Checkout this website for Confirmation - The friends of real Lancashire

Anyway here´s a brief guide to the Lancastrian accent (This is a work in progress and will be added to from time to time)

art al´reet	are you alright?
Nowt	nothing
Ath	at the
Amust	I must
Art	are you
Ast	have you
As´ta	do you have
Awlreet	alright
Babby	baby
Barmpot	idiot/simpleton
Benny	go mad/ throw a tantrum
Bickering	argueing
Bout	without
Bowt	bought (pronounced bow t)
Bowton	Bolton
Brass	money
Britchies	breeches
Browt	brought
Burrie	Bury
Butty	Sandwich
Buzz	Bus
Cack anded	clumsy
Cakehole	mouth
Champion	good as in I´m good/well
Compin	chewing
Chuck	throw something, also used to address an associate, ow do chuck?
Clobber	item of clothing / To hit some one
Clowt	item of clothing / To hit some one
Cob on	annoyed
Corporation pop	tap water
Cowd	cold
Dust	do you (as in "Dust tha like that")
D ya like that?	Did you like that (Catchphrase of Fred Dibnah esq)
Ees	he
Eigh up	move up
Etten	eaten (Ged it etten)
Feight	fight
Flummoxed	flustered
Forrin	foreign
Foyer	fire (as in "Chuck it in foyer")
Frabbin	struggling (stop frabbin an givit ere)
Fratch	argue
Fust	first
Gi	give
Ginnel	passage between houses
Gob	mouth (shut tha gob)
Gooin	going
Gormless	somebody whos slow (ees gormless)
Gowd	gold
Gradley	good (reet gradley)
Gronny	grandma
Guduz	good as
Havin kittens	worried (ees avin kittens)
Hauf	half
Heause	house
Heyt	height
Hoo	she
Howd	hold
Howdim	hold him (As in "You howdim well I kick im inth knackers")
Im	him
Imbook	hymnbook
Int	isn´t, is not
Inth	into the / in the
Iti al´reet	are you alright?
Itwer	it was
Jiggered	exhausted
Lang	long
Lanky	Lancashire
Larn	learn
Leet	light
Lerrim	let him
Loife	life
Loike	like
Lugs	ears
Mardy	spoilt child
Met	might
Meyt	meat
Mi´sen	myself
Mi´sel	myself
Missus	Mrs, the wife
Moggy	cat
Moither	annoy (stop moitherin´ me)
Mon	man
Monny	many
Musta	must I
Nay	no
Neet	night
Nesh	cold (man its nesh)
Noddy	fool
No nouse	lack of intelligence
Nought	nothing
Nouse	sense
Nowt	nothing
Oi	I
Our peg	my wife
Owd	old
Owdo	How do you do
Owdonabit	slow down, just a moment
Owt	anything
Owtelse	anything else
Papper	paper
Parky	cold
Peawnd	pound
Po fagged	exhausted
Pownd	stressed
Reet	right
Scoo	school
Sell	self (Mi sell)
Sez	says
Shives	slices of bread
Sin	seen (av sin´nit)
Sken	look (av a sken at this)
Slopstone	draining board
Smook	smoke
Sparrowfart	as in ‘I were up at crack o´ sparrowfart´
Spittin feathers	thirsty
Summat	something (summat an nothin)
T	the
Tae	tea
Tarra	goodbye
Tawk	talk
Teem	pour
Tek	take
Tha	you
Tha knows	you know, aren´t you
Th´art	thow art
Thend	the end
Thee	you
Theer	there
Thewt	thought
Thi	you
thowt	thought
thowd´man	father
thrutch	push
towd	told
tram stopper	thick sandwich
umpteen	plenty, several
un	and
up t´stick	pregnant
utch	move
uz	we, us
uz´ll	we will
wacked	tired
waggin	wagon
wain´t	will not
wantsta	want to
warrabowt	what about
wark	work
watter	water
weer	where
wesh	wash
wetch	watch
wi	with
wilt	will you
wimmin	women
worrel	what will (worrel this do ya?)
wrang	wrong
yawl	you all
yed	head
yerd	heard

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