Are you a Manckney?

Researchers claim today that the Mancunian accent could be on the way out – with the city’s youth culture adopting a more “southern” tone.
Dubbing this hybrid accent “The Manckney” , the report looking at changes to urban accents in UK towns and cities also states that fifty per cent of Mancunians say their accent has become more diverse and may be dying out.
Spokesman Pete Williams said: “These new regional tones are very evident in the aisles of your local supermarket and on every high street. Accent is hugely affected by external influences – historically, cataclysmic events like invasions and wars shaped the way Brits communicated with each other. Foreign words were introduced, social habits changed and language was very much a constantly evolving force.
The report says: “In Manchester, influences from African (25 per cent), Caribbean (33 per cent), Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi (27 per cent) and American (27 per cent) dialects are all exerting a growing influence over inhabitants of the city.
“These changes are becoming so prevalent within youth culture that a new breed of Manc is being born: dubbed Manckneys. While Londoners move away from their own accent, these young Mancunians are embracing the southern sounds (18 per cent cite influences from estuary English, the highest outside the South East) and forming a whole new accent.”
But, as is the norm of these surveys which “reveal” things that don’t come as a surprise to any come as anyone, the Somerfield Local Life Report also says that “half of Mancs think that Liverpudlians have the most irritating accent.”
Sherlock – you heard it here first!