I apologise is this post breaks any sort of rules and regulations. Feel free to delete if it does.

Basically, I'm currently studying at the University of Salford and as part of my final year assessment, we're carrying out a project on the Salford accent.

A bit of a stab in the dark, but i was wondering if any of you would have a maybe an hour and a half of your time to spare to either pop down to the university, or if its more convenient for you, allow me to pop round just to record half an hour of dialogue between you and a mate/partner/child (over 18 of course). Jaffacakes will be provided!

I understand its a lot to ask with people working and having other commitments but it would really help me out. The only requirements are that you are over 18 and have lived in Salford all your life (moving between wards is fine).

If you do have any time to spare please either leave a reply in this thread, or PM me.

Thanks a lot for your time

What is your aim for the project? Do you have a hypothesis?

I'm afraid I can't take part as I've lived away from the area for a while.

You'll strruggle to find many on here who like the sound of thier own voice I'm affraid

Be interested to find out more about your project, whatever it is.

Indeed. Tell us more about it. It's aims etc.
My wife likes talking but unfortunately she is Irish.

Wow, thank you all for your quick responses!

A little bit more on the project : The purpose generally is to further out understanding of spoken English in Salford. We're studying which elements of spoken language vary and change in the dialect and to study the trends. We're waiting until our recording is done and dusted and transcribed before we chose our variables and decided exactly which aspect of the dialect we're going to focus on in our final report. All recordings will of course be 100% anonymous.

Yeah I can help you out.

Well that's Diavolo Red out of the picture.

just a bump really.
anybody who fits my criteria at all available in the next few days for an hour of your time? all my other candidates have had to cancel on me due to unforeseen circumstances!

As a Warringtonian born and bred, I have always fround a Salford accent to be very similar to that of central, north and east Warrington. I would say an outsider would be unable to distinguish them.

There are subtle differences. I would say that Warringtonians tend to drop the word "the" more as in "going t'shops".
Instead of anything, we say "eh-wt" whereas Salfordians would pronounce it "ow-t". They also say "2 while 3" whereas we say "2 till 3".

Thanks to Noel and Liam/Kevin and Perry, young Warringtonians seem to have adopted the Salford/Manchester habit of pronoucing th as an F and the annoying golottel (sp) stop. For example "fanks for my glass of wa'er".

Not exactly relevant to your point just my observations.

Noel & Liam come from the well known MANCHESTER suburb of Burnage, where indeed I was born (some years before them), but what that has to do with SALFORD accents I know not!!

That's why I said Salford/MANCHESTER. This fing about everyfink wiv a th being changed to an f or a v seemed to spread across the norf about the time of Madchester. Noel and Liam being prominent then.

Salford had a "manc" accent long before then!

However the Salford accent is still different to a Manc accent. If you know what your listening for. Especially in older people.