VoicesYou are in: Liverpool > Voices  We've searched for pages on the net to help you find out more about the way we speak on Merseyside.  The nation can help rewrite the Oxford Dictionary, by digging up the origins of some Scouse words. Nichole spends time sailing to different ports and finds people don't understand the words she uses.  Just where does the Scouse accent come from? And why does it keep morphing as the years go by?  A week of programming on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Merseyside will investigate why we speak the way we do.  Students from Birkenhead and a group of ex-dockers discuss why we say certain words and phrases.  Why do we talk the way we do? We've been to ask the experts to find out... Find out how to speak Merseyside's language of the streets, Backslang.  Play our game and see if you can understand these dialect words from the British Isles. Want to pass yourself off as a Scouser? Then you'll need to wrap your tongue around Scouse phrases. You are in: Liverpool > Voices |
