Wolverton Accents - listen to how people pronounce the same words, listen for the similarities and differences between the age groups. See if you agree with our findings at the bottom of the page.
Some of the interviewees' parents had also grown up in Wolverton, other people's parents or grandparents had moved to Wolverton from other places in the UK, or from other parts of the World.
We wanted to see how the accent has changed over different generations so we only interviewed people who were born and brought up in Wolverton.
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Listening for the different ways that some words were pronounced we found a number of words to compare.
th to ff
e.g. 'ffree blind mice'
'th' (as in something, three, both) - when 'th' is voiceless and can be replaced with the 'f' or 'v' sound
Our findings:
It is hard to say there are hard and fast rules for the way that the Wolverton accent has changed, or in the way that people from the same generation group pronounce certain words.
In general we found that the younger people pronounced the 'th' sound as a 'f' or 'v' as in somefing or bruvver - listen to Tamsin say 'rather', Emily say 'three' and compare it with how Nicola says 'three', Pat saying 'Southern' and Yvonne saying 'Mother' and 'Father'.
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