The Manchester Skyline as seen from The Edge at Alderley Edge, Cheshire Credit: Press Association. A new study of the Mancunian accent has looked at the number and range of dialects across the ten ...

AUTHOR Alan Garner was called in as a sleuth to solve a dialect riddle that baffled experts at Manchester University. The writer, born and raised in Wilmslow and Alderley Edge, was asked to help ...

FARMER Philip Holland went back to the classroom to save his local dialect. Philip, 58, spent all his working life running his family farm in the Peak District and decided to look for a new challenge ...

RESIDENTS from Bolton are to be interviewed about the unique way people in the town speak as part of groundbreaking and detailed study of Greater Manchester dialects and accents. Run by linguists at ...