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What Accent Is Chesterfield?

What is distinctive about Chesterfield speech (accent and vocabulary)? “common”/ ”quite rough”/”quite friendly – not considered posh/uptight.” It’s “quite similar to the Sheffield accent in many ways”/The Sheffield dialect has ”no particular difference to the Chesterfield one.” “… Is there a Derbyshire accent? People weren’t particularly educated back in the 1700s but they’d learn words …

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