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The language of the Potteries .. or     "Ar ter toke crate"

North Staffordshire Dialect - Vowel pronunciation guide 

 

A      
Standard Potteries Other examples Pronounced
make meek blame
change
clay
fame
mate
stale
way
bleeme
cheenge
cley
feme
meet
steel
wee
 
make mack take tack
 
man mon any
bank
blab
can
many
rat
ony
bonk
blob
con
mony
rot
 
grass gress catch
sand
wash
cetch  (ketch)
send
wesh
 
half hafe father
rather
water
 
faither
raither
wayter
ball bo all
call
fall
o
co
fo
 
far fur  (fer)
 
   
barefoot barfoot
 
   
scare skeer    
       
Ai  or  ay      
Standard Potteries Other examples Pronounced
brains breens chain
claim
fail
gray
pray
cheen
cleem
feel
gree
pree
 
Au      
Standard Potteries Other examples Pronounced
aught ote audit
august
autumn
odit
ogust
otumn
naught nowte    
aunt ant    
       
Aw      
Standard Potteries Other examples Pronounced
awkward occud    
       
E      
Standard Potteries Other examples Pronounced
be bay arena
even
she
arayna
ayven
shay
 
there theer    
celery salary yellow
pretty
fetch
yallo
praetty
faetch
 
credit cridit member
register
whether
mimber
rigister
whither
 
Ea      
Standard Potteries Other examples Pronounced
beast baste (beyst) bleak
each
eagle
blake
'ach (aitch)
'agle
 
great greet break breek (brack)
 
dead jed head yed
 
wear weer tear teer
 
measure mizzer feather fither
 
Ee      
Standard Potteries Other examples Pronounced
beef bafe breeze
feet
seem
braze
fate  (fait)
same
 
peel
 
pill    
Ei  or  ey      
Standard Potteries Other examples Pronounced
ceiling sailing
 
conceit
deceive
height
neither
receive
consait
desaive
hait
naither
resave
 
neither noither
 
   
weigh we feign
grey
whey
feen
greey
weey
 
Er      
Standard Potteries Other examples Pronounced
clerk clark clergy
deserve
sergeant
served
clargy
desarve
sargant
sarved
 
Ew      
Standard Potteries Other examples Pronounced
crew creuwe drew
few
screw
dreuw
feuw
screuw
 
I      
Standard Potteries Other examples Pronounced
china chana (cheena) fight
light
mind
right
while
fate
late (layte)
maind
raight
wail
 
cistern cestern
 
   
fortnight fortnit (fotnit) might mait  (mayt)
 
life loif knife noif
 
Ie      
Standard Potteries Other examples Pronounced
believe belave brief
chief
piece
brafe
chafe
payce  (pase)
 
O      
Standard Potteries Other examples Pronounced
for fur (fer) foreign
forward
fureign
furrard
 
broke brock    
told towd bold
gold
old
pole
bowd
gowd
owd
powl
 
worse woss horse
worst
hoss
woss
 
Oa      
Standard Potteries Other examples Pronounced
board boord boat
coat
roam
bowt
cowt
room
 
Oi or oy      
Standard Potteries Other examples Pronounced
boil bile choice
 
chise
 
Oo      
Standard Potteries Other examples Pronounced
moon mooen book
look
booek
looek (luke)
 
Ou      
Standard Potteries Other examples Pronounced
bought bote ought owt
 
boulder bowlder brought
thought
browt
thowt
 
about abite around arind
 
Ow      
Standard Potteries Other examples Pronounced
clown cline down
town
dine
tine
 
U      
Standard Potteries Other examples Pronounced
Purse poss    

 

 


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