And British dialects are so wonderfully localised. Leicester, as you say, has the “Lestah” pronunciation. Peterborough has the ubiquitous glottal stop (sorry

And British dialects are so wonderfully localised. Leicester, as you say, has the “Lestah” pronunciation. Peterborough has the ubiquitous glottal stop (sorry, Pe’erborough has the ubiqui’ous glo’al stop). Rutland has neither. It’s 20 miles from Leicester to Rutland and another 20 from Rutland to Peterborough. When I lived there I could often pinpoint a Rutland accent to within a group of villages, though I don’t think I could do so today.