My Lancashire accent is absolutely rock-solid, undiminished and uninfluenced, even after 34 years in Cornwall.

I moved from the Mersey to the Humber via Manchester almost 50 years ago. My Liverpool accent has somewhat had the edges knocked off and I would now define it as undefined northern, unless I get excited when it goes up a few semi-tones and the Scouser comes out.

My father-in-law was born in Poland but lived in France from the age of 12 to 29. He arrived in England after the Second World War where he lived for 40 another years but he still sounded like a Pole up to the day he died.

DC