Oldham, England
The Oldham Accent
Oldham sits inside the Mancunian dialect area, which covers Manchester and Greater Manchester, England. The nearest other area is East Midlands, about 6km away.
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What people in Oldham sound like
- “Happy” and “city” end on a short “-eh” rather than a long “-ee”.
- Flat “bath” vowel — “bath”, “grass” and “laugh” rhyme with “cat”.
- “Put” and “putt” have the same vowel.
- A drawn-out “goat” vowel in words like “no” and “go”.
These are the markers of the Mancunian accent as a whole. No survey claims every speaker in Oldham has all of them — the full Mancunian profile sets out where the region varies.
Dialect areas near Oldham
Is your accent from Oldham?
There is no way to answer that from a description. The test asks 29 questions about the words you use and how you say them, scores your answers against the Mancunian English profile and every other profile in the survey, and shows you where people who answer the way you do actually live.