Do you speak ‘Manc’, ‘Lancashire’, ‘posh’ or 'Wigan'? That’s the question a group of sociolinguists at Manchester Metropolitan University are trying to figure out. The Manchester Voices research ...

I’m judged every day by my accent,” says Andy Farrell, in that distinctive Wigan inflection, neither Lancastrian nor Mancunian but a sound all its own. He concedes, too, that there was once a time ...