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Which part of the UK can he be from? If an Englishman pronounces "up" as "op" and "come" as "com", which part of the UK can he be from? Thank you!

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I'm from England, and I think it might be actually either a Scottish accent or someone who probably isn't a native speaker. Its difficult to answer not being able to actually hear the accent. Do you have a link, if its on Youtube?
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A lot of regional British speakers do this, so it's hard to pinpoint. My first guess would be northern England, but as I said, the speaker could come from a number of different places. Are you asking in general, or is there a specific recording or video you're listening to?
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If by 'op' you mean the /ʊ/ sound in 'book', this is probably a speaker from the North of England. In the more northerly half of England - pretty well everywhere from the Midlands up to the border with Scotland - there are many speakers for whom there is no /ʌ/ sound, as in 'cup' or 'love'. Many speakers from this area use a /ʊ/ sound instead. For example, in standard English, the words 'book' and 'buck' are pronounced differently. 'Book' is pronounced /bʊk/ , whereas 'buck' is pronounced /bʌk/. For many English speakers from the northern half of England, however, these two words are pronounced the same. A person from Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield or Newcastle, for example, may pronounce 'buck' as /bʊk/ - in other words, with exactly the same pronunciation as 'book'. Other pairs of words which would be pronounced the same in these accents are look/luck and put/putt. Does that help?

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