Scouse

Scouse is the accent and dialect of English associated with Liverpool and the wider Merseyside area of North West England, and one of the most distinctive urban varieties of British English. It emerged from Liverpool's development as a major transatlantic port, whose 19th-century waves of Irish, Welsh and Scandinavian immigration left the city's speech with little resemblance to the English of the surrounding Lancashire countryside. Marked by non-rhoticity, extensive h-dropping, and a nasal vowel quality quite unlike neighboring accents, Scouse takes its very name from lobscouse, the Scandinavian sailors' stew that became a symbol of the port city and, eventually, of the dialect itself.