Academic publications

Book (academic but accessible)

Drummond, Rob. 2026. Manchester Voices: Accents, dialects and identities. Cambridge University Press.

Journal articles

Dann, Holly; Drummond, Rob; Tasker, Sarah; Montogomery, Chris; Durkacz Ryan, Sadie & Carrie, Erin. 2024. ‘Broad, strong, and soft: using geospatial analysis to understand folk-linguistic terminology’. Journal of Linguistic Geography. https://doi.org/10.1017/jlg.2024.10

Drummond, Rob; Dann, Holly; Tasker, Sarah & Durkacz Ryan, Sadie. 2022.. ‘The Manchester Voices Accent Van: taking sociolinguistic data collection on the road. Linguistics Vanguard. 8(1), 263-277. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2022-0050

Dann, Holly; Durkacz Ryan, Sadie & Drummond, Rob. 2022. ‘Social Meaning in Archival Interaction: A mixed-methods analysis of variation in rhoticity and past tense BE in Oldham’ English Language and Linguistics. doi.org/10.1017/S1360674322000119

Durkacz Ryan, Sadie; Dann, Holly & Drummond, Rob. 2022. ‘Really this girl ought to be going to something better: Rhoticity, gender and education in oral history data from Oldham’ Language in Society. doi.org/10.1017/S0047404522000215

Installation/exhibition

Drummond, Rob; Dann, Holly; Tasker, Sarah & Durkacz Ryan, Sadie. 2022. Manchester Voices. Manchester Central Library.

Online resource

Drummond, Rob; Dann, Holly; Tasker, Sarah & Durkacz Ryan, Sadie. 2022: Manchester Voices. https://explore.manchestervoices.org/

TV, radio and podcasts

• No Such Thing as a Fish. May 2023. A key finding of the project was fact number two on this episode.
• BBC Radio Manchester. Nov 2022.
• BBC TV Northwest Tonight. Nov 2022.
• New Thinking. BBC Radio 3 Podcast. Accents. Oct 2022.
• Channel 5 News. Oct 2021.
• BBC Radio 4. Oct 2021.
• BBC TV Northwest Tonight. Oct 2021
• BBC Radio 5 Live. Sep 2021.
• Heritage Radio. Sep 2021.
• BBC Radio Manchester. Mar 2021
• AllFM: Vintage FM. Nov 2020.
• Tameside Radio. Oct 2020.
• BBC Radio Manchester. Oct 2020.
• Granada Reports. TV. Oct 2020.
• New Thinking. BBC Radio 3 Podcast. City Talk. Jul 2019.
• BBC Radio Manchester. The Breakfast Show. Jun 2017

National and local news

• The Manc. New study claims ‘proper Mancs’ live in the city centre and people in the suburbs sound ‘posh’. Nov 2022.
• Manchester Evening News. The Mancunian Way: D’you know what I mean? Nov 2022.
• Manchester Evening News. Proper Mancs live in city centre while south Manchester and Trafford residents sound ‘posh’, experts say. Nov 2022.
• Manchester World. Manchester Voices: New Central Library installation celebrates diversity in Greater Manchester accents. Nov 2022.
• Saddleworth Independent. New research project had accent on voices. Nov 2021.
• The Guardian. ‘Ya cheekeh monkeh’: recording Manchester accent diversity. Oct 2021.
• Salford Now. ‘Our accent is a kind of fingerprint, it tells a story about where we’re from’ – The Greater Manchester Voices Project want more Salfordians to take part in their survey of the region’s accents. Oct 2021.
• Manchester Evening News. ‘Manc’, ‘Lancashire’, ‘posh’ or ‘Wigan’: Researchers find four identifiable accents within Greater Manchester – and this is what you make of them. Oct 2021.
• Manchester World. Skriking, ginnels and ‘our kid’ – the Manchester team recording and celebrating the region’s accents. Oct 2021.
• I Love Manchester. Do you speak ‘Manc’, ‘Lancashire’, ‘Wigan’ or ‘posh’? Oct 2021.
• Oldham Chronicle. Do you speak ‘Manc’, ‘Lancashire’ or ‘posh’? Oct 2021.
• In Your Area – Rochdale. Manchester accent study encourages Rochdale residents to ‘submit their voice’ Apr 2021.
• Salford Star. Salford people wanted to describe ice-skating bear. Nov 2020.
• Saddleworth Independent. Show off your accent! Be part of the ‘Manchester Voices’ research project. Oct 2020.
• Shaw and Royton Correspondent. Show off your accent! Be part of the ‘Manchester Voices’ research project. Oct 2020.
• Tameside Correspondent. Show off your accent! Be part of the ‘Manchester Voices’ research project. Oct 2020.
• Oldham Evening Chronicle. Oldham accents wanted for largest research project ever into accents of Greater Manchester Oct 2020.
• About Manchester. Bus or buz? Record your voice for largest research project ever into Greater Manchester accent Sep 2020.
• Oldham Evening Chronicle. Oldham features in new Greater Manchester ‘Voices’ map. Sep 2019.
• Bury Times. A new exhibition shows that not even the people of Bury can agree the real pronunciation of the town. Jun 2017.
• The Bolton News. Manchester Metropolitan University language experts celebrate the Bolton accent and its ‘lickle’ differences. Jun 2017.
• Manchester Evening News. Hospikle, areet, barm and nesh – the words people only say where you live. Jun 2017.
• ITV News. Manchester study finds the region’s accents are going strong. Jun 2017.
• The Northern Quota. Manchester Voices research project sets out to find out how to define a ‘Mancunian accent‘. Jun 2017.
• Manchester Evening News. Help to create a unique map of how we speak in Greater Manchester. Sep 2016.
• About Manchester. Create your own dialect map of Greater Manchester. Sep 2016.
• ITV News. What does the Manchester accent say about you? Aug 2015.
• Manchester Evening News. Scally or posh? Greater Manchester accent map shows what people think about the way YOU talk. Aug 2015.
• Manchester Evening News. Greater Manchester accents: How you think you’re perceived by the way you speak. Aug 2015.
• Mancunian Matters. Stop ya chattin’! Man Met Uni linguist on ‘accent loyalty’, dialect maps and stereotypes. Aug 2015.
• About Manchester. Posh, broad, working class or arty? How Manchester’s dialect is perceived. Aug 2015.
• Manchester Confidentials. Artsy, Rough Or Soft: What Does Your Accent Say About You? Aug 2015.

University news

• Man Met News. Accent pride and prejudice. 2025.
• aAh! Magazine. The relationship between accents and identity. March 2024.
• Man Met News. Permanent archive of Manchester accents and dialects launches to celebrate local language. Nov 2022.
• Man Met News. Do you speak ‘Manc’, ‘Lancashire’ or ‘posh’? First findings from largest ever study of Greater Manchester accents and dialects revealed. Oct 2021.
• Man Met News. Bus or buz? Record your voice for largest research project ever into Greater Manchester accents Sep 2020.
• Man Met News. Manchester Voices Map: Mancunians can chart their own accents and dialects. Sep 2019.
• Man Met News. Permanent archive of Manchester voices created by huge regional language project. Mar 2019.
• Humanity Hallows. Manchester Voices launch celebrates accents, dialects and people of Greater Manchester. Jun 2017.