East Midlands

East Midlands accents are generally non-rhotic.

Yod-dropping, as in East Anglia, can be found in some areas, for example new as /nuː/, sounding like "noo". The u vowel of words like strut is often [ʊ], with no distinction between putt and put. In Lincolnshire, such sounds are even shorter than in the North.

The town of Corby in northern Northamptonshire has an accent with some originally Scottish features, apparently due to immigration of Scottish steelworkers. In Leicester, words with short vowels such as up and last have a northern pronunciation, whereas words with vowels such as down and road sound rather more like a south-eastern accent. The vowel sound at the end of words like border (and the name of the city) is also a distinctive feature.

In north Nottinghamshireee found in short words is pronounced as two syllables, for example feet being [ˈfijəʔ], sounding like "fee-yut" (and also in this case ending with a glottal stop).

Lincolnshire also has a marked north-south split in terms of accent. The north shares many features with Yorkshire, such as the open a sound in "car" and "park" or the replacement of take and make with tek and mek. The south of Lincolnshire is close to Received Pronunciation, although it still has a short Northern a in words such as bath.

Mixing of the words was and were when the other is used in Standard English.

In Northamptonshire, crossed by the North-South isogloss, residents of the north of the county have an accent similar to that of Leicestershire and those in the south an accent similar to rural Oxfordshire.

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