People living in Barrow–in–Furness and Lancaster have some of the most distinctive accents in the North of England. Despite being just 35 miles apart, people living in these towns sound surprisingly ...
The Barrow-in-Furness accent is very different from the rest of Lancashire and Cumbria because of an intense mixing and rapid population change in the late 1800s, says new research by Lancaster ...
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