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How do you call an accent that is not necessarily strong (as the Scottish) but is hard to understand due to the speaker barely opening their mouth, as if they were mumbling. In Spanish we tend to refer to that as "acento cerrado". The closest example I can think of now is when I hear people from Manchester speak.

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Dave_anon · Accepted Answer

Hi

I like it when I hear people from Manchester speak, What exactly is your problem?

Dave

Anonymous · Answer

When you talk about people speaking without opening their mouths, I think of Prince Charles. "Whin win is Prnce Chrls, win spks tw win's plunts withut muvng wins lps!"

I associate stressed hard "g's" with Manchester. "Sing-GinG" for "singing".

EyeSeeYou · Answer

Hi Dave. No problem, just hard to make out what they are saying. It takes a while to get used to.

My original inquiry had to do with finding a word to name those types of accents. All I can find in dictionaries relat to broad, strong ones.

Dave_anon · Answer

Hi

OK. There is a Wikipedia article entitled "Manchester Dialect". It seems to suggest that, in the North of England as a whole, vowels are flatter, but in Manchester there is stronger vowel enunciation

The article didn't leave me much the wiser: I don't know of one phrase that would sum it up: it just is an accent in its own right

Dave

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