What Accent Does Staffordshire Have?

Potteries is an English dialect of the West Midlands of England, almost exclusively in and around Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Potteries dialect. Potteries Region North Staffordshire Language family Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Ingvaeonic Anglo-Frisian Anglic English Potteries Why do people in Stoke say duck? Why do we call people ‘Duck’ in Stoke? We’re not actually calling you …

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Is West Lothian A County?

A county in central Scotland, also known as Linlithgowshire. The boundaries of the county were altered by the Boundary Commissioners in 1891. Is Edinburgh in Lothian county? Historically part of the county of Midlothian (interchangeably Edinburghshire before 1921), it is located in Lothian on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth. Edinburgh is Scotland’s …

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