The Co-op vowel shift

We all know the Co-operative. It's a shop and it's a bank, and it's probably many other things as well, but what I am interested in is the way you say it.

In my experience, there are two distinct pronunciations of Co-op in Warrington:

1. Each syllable pronounced separately: Co - Op
2. As one word: Cworp

The pronunciation distinction seems to be related to age, so let's have a survey.

If you pronounce Co-op as in number 1, post a comment with the number 1 and your birth year.

If you pronounce Co-op as in number 2, post a comment with the number 2 and your birth year.

As an example, my response is: 1 and 1974

Please ask as many of your friends as you can and post their responses too. Let's try to get some good results for this one.

I'll post the results in a couple of days.

Thanks, Wirelector.