Posted by Ian E-N on May 01, 2007 at 09:32:31 from 148.88.192.240 user IanEN.
In Reply to: Re: Quotation from S & A Series- posted by Ed Kiser on May 01, 2007 at 02:23:44:
Mrs. McGinty is not local the the Broads area so her speech is not reflecting the standards of that part of the world.
Jacky seems to be speaking in such a different dialect from that of Nancy and Peggy
Jacky, working class lad, locally schooled - Cumbrian dialect accent, the Blacketts, middle class, privately schooled - more "received pronunciation" dialect.
Historically Cumbria/Lake District is part of Strathclyde - a Scottish kingdom. Local dialect accents merge into Scots from the North Lancashire ones of the south lakes. North Cumbrian around 'Peerith' ( Penrith ) and beyond can be very thick - see Border Ballads.
Interesting variety in pronunciation of the sheep counting numbers linked on the Lakeland Dialect Society page.
( My wife's family from Dacre area ( near Penrith ) use this version )