Boltonians

So tell me …when did a Bolton accent become sexy?

I enjoyed listening to Vernon Kay’s Brit music session on Sat morning as I was driving along. After Vernon was Sarah Cox another Boltonian. The lovely Stuart Maconie who reads out Kev’s daft e mails on radio 2 sounds similar. He’s from Leigh I think. Then there’s Peter Kay ... is it a common name in Bolton?

Now I don’t come from Bolton, I was born in the home of Peter Kay’s favourite radio station. My family either supported Wanderers or Rovers but never Preston North End!

I was OK on grammar, but I didn’t really know about ‘vowel sounds’ until I got to University. My roommate was from the deep South (Upminster wherever that is) and my landlady was exceedingly posh. They were much amused when I said things like ‘a thowsand pownds’. I just didn’t get the joke. Rob (ex husband from Barrow in Furness) once collapsed in hysterics when I asked the greengrocer for ‘a pownd of sprowts’.

Now you get good money for talking like that. So repeat after me:

Rowndabowt
Check this owt!
How Now Brown Cow (try it in Boltonspeak)

vernonkay.bbc.co.uk .. where co rimes with d’Oh

Keep practising and I’ll hear you on the Radio soon.

KAZ