Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!Northern pronunciations are unlikely to survive the next 50 years according to new research by scientists.Everyone in England will gradually say words in a typically southeastern accent, which means the end of west country folk pronouncing Rs in a pirate-like fashion.A study by the universities of Portsmouth and Cambridge has given 45 years before regional accents are wiped out as we know them.Examples of words set to be said differently across England include "strut" and "farm" but one word not billed to change any time soon is "bath".Traditionally northerners would pronounce "strut" to rhyme with "foot" but this is likely to be lost and those in the southwest will stop pronouncing the.
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