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Reply 20

Beekeeper

Guitarmarama

Sorta, but Mancs is actually short for Mancunian, whereas scouse (liverpudlian)/geordie (novocastrian)/deedar (sheffielder) dont seem to be related to their relative names... Does that make sense?

Not sure...

But a Geordie is from Newcastle, and a Manc is from Manchester.

Is Manc also used to denote the Manchester accent, in the same way that geordie or scouser is?

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Reply 21

Guitarmarama

Beekeeper

Not sure...

But a Geordie is from Newcastle, and a Manc is from Manchester.

Is Manc also used to denote the Manchester accent, in the same way that geordie or scouser is?

Yeah I guess so, although I never say "I have a manc accent". My accent is kinda weird, it's obviously northern and from manchester-ish, but it's not got any specific place, probably cuz i went to a school/6th form with people from all over the place and my parents are welsh so I don't really have a specific northern accent, although it is northern.

Reply 22

Charlottie

Beekeeper

Just did a random search on Wikipedia:

"People from Sheffield are called Sheffielders.

They are also colloquially known to people in Barnsley, Rotherham, Dronfield and Chesterfield as "Dee-dars" (which derives from their pronunciation of the "th" in the dialectal words "thee" and "thou")[1] although the term is in decline and is not nearly as prevalent as "Scouse" is for "Liverpudlian" or "Geordie" is for "Novocastrian"."

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