Tuesday, October 23, 2012

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.

6 comments:

  1. Hiya Wirelector.

    1 and 1951
    1 and 1935
    1 and 1948
    1 and 1942
    1 and 1952
    1 and 1945

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  2. 1 and 1946
    2 and 1917 (born in Leigh and lived in Warrington for 40 yrs.)
    2 and 1935 (born in Bolton and lived in Warrington for 40 yrs.)
    1 and 1970
    1 and 1975
    1 and 1959

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  3. 1 and 1965
    1 and 1968
    1 and 1937
    1 and 1940

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  4. Thanks for your response, Elliot. Nice to have a new person commenting on the blog. Please have a look at the other sections and feel free to comment. Your opinions are most welcome 😊 Wirelector

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