# Most unintelligible english accent

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 20, 2007, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unintelligible-english-accent/430692 "2007-12-20T11:36:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 24, 2007, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unintelligible-english-accent/430692/81 "2007-12-24T13:04:53Z")

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[QUOTE=jjimm]  
My apologies. I suspect, therefore, he was talking about Cumbrian dialect.  
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Cumbrian also gets part of its dialect from Cumbric, the gaelic dialect spoke in the NW of England. Shepherds still count their flock in Cumbric (“yan”, “tyan”, “tetherie” etc.).

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**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2007, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unintelligible-english-accent/430692/82 "2007-12-24T13:22:36Z")

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[QUOTE=Dominic Mulligan]  
Chester’s close to Manchester, Liverpool and North Wales. Lancashire and maybe even at a stretch Yorkshire accents are also possibilities, for “local” accents. My bet’s on Scouse, though.  
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I agree that from the description, Scouse is almost certain.

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> BTW, just rediscovered this website. Here’s the [accent](http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personalisation/object.cfm?uid=021MMC900S08056U00018C01) of a neighbouring village to mine.

Fantastic link 🙂[Here’s](http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personalisation/object.cfm?uid=021SED00C908S61U00004C01) one from near me - but you’d struggle to find anyone using that much dialect nowadays! [This](http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personalisation/object.cfm?uid=021MMC900S17014U00001C01) is more typical of older people now, and also of parts of younger generations.

Edit: Listening to the first one right through, I’ll admit that I’m struggling at times without looking at the translations!

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