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Nah, slower than "Geordie", faster than "West country." It's a unique accent. Methodical is a word I'd use to describe it. The spoken sentence sounds confident, with a conclusion to it, not a question as in other parts of the UK.


You might need to translate some local words for things, in Lancashire we would call a stream, a stream, oddly enough. In Cumbria they may call the same a "beck."


Try:


http://www.bbc.co.uk/england/realmedia/live/localradio/cumbria.ram


http://www.bbc.co.uk/england/radiocumbria/index.shtml

See what do you think of it?

Guess who's just been given a Cartmel ?

No, that's a very unseasonal reaction and I retract it. I hope you thoroughly enjoy every single mouthful!

Mol

Don't worry Mol, we will we're saving it until New Year when we've got family coming for lunch, the two of us couldn't manage even a Cartmel on our own

Oh I love that description of the accent as 'methodical'! That's very accurate. When I go home now I'm startled by how 'over-pronounced' everything is. (My accent hasn't changed at all - but I can only detect other people's accents...) I'm told it's a sort of cross between Lancastrian and Geordie.

It always amuses me when we take my daughter's youngest back home after a weeks holiday in Wales, she starts off broad Cumbrian, get's diluted a little by Grandad's Lancashire and then completely confused by all the relatives back home sort of 'Aye lass bach'!

Oh noooo, random ' attack