William Park: … would say “baaath”, “graaass”, and so on, with a long “ah”-sound. In my accent, “foot” rhymes with “put”, but not with “strut” – the latter has an “uh”-sound, like in “upper”. I grew up in Suffolk, in East Anglia, where the accent is a variation on southern standard English. We say a lot of things in the southern way with a stretched out “a” sound, for example. But we also have our own bit of regional flair. If you greeted me with “Ey up m’duck”, I might ask how you are doing with “yer oroight buh?”
