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Which city is famous for the Scouse accent and dialect?

A Newcastle
✕ Birmingham Your answer
✓ Liverpool
D Glasgow

Not quite.

Scouse comes from Liverpool and is named after 'scouse', a local stew. Newcastle's dialect is called Geordie and Birmingham's is called Brummie.

Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica / BBC Voices project: 'Scouse'

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