Funny how people forget about the midlands.
Can remember a time when I thought of Kentish Town as ‘north’, but in those weird days, my world was very small, and Brixton was ‘the south’.
If I’d thought about it at the time (which I didn’t) Hatfield would probably have Ultima Thule…
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What amuses me most on the radio is northern born people who think they need to hide their roots and as a result pronounce the ‘wood’ as ‘wud’ and ‘could’ as ‘cud’. I want to tell them that I don’t know what a wud is but cud is what cows chew. 
Sorry, how else would you pronounce it?
There are “northern” variations of “oo” but I’ve not heard them for the word “wood” - relatives in Scarborough pronounce words such as “look”, “book”, “hook” with a long oo vowel not a short “u” vowel (i.e not luk, buk, huk - though I pronounce these with a short u vowel and I’m South Yorkshire).
But I’ve never heard anyone say w-oo-d, anywhere.
It’s all to do with the great vowel shift, which regions picked up which vowel shifts and at what point compared to shifts in pronunciation the development of printing “froze” the spelling.
Also worth picking up YT videos by Ben Crystal about performing Shakespeare in its original pronunciation (just imagine Geoffrey Rush doing it all in his Barbosa accent).
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I remember a woman called Kathy Secker, who was notorious for this. She pronounced “food” making it rhyme with “could”.
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We sometimes jokingly do this - after the Gary Larson cartoon
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Anyway, this is off topic apart from the above cartoon - if you wish to discuss regional accents please start a new thread.
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I found this post amusing, does this not count as humour?
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Yes I think you’re getting a tad precious @billybutcher , after answering off topic yourself you wag a warning finger at anybody who wants to answer your question.
Are we to believe now that all thread drift is completely forbidden? But I will answer your question.
I am not an expert who knows the correct form of displaying accents, so I would refer you to the woodworker who is a regular on the programme ‘The Repair Shop’ if you want to know about pronunciations of the word ‘wood’.
Sorry, the intent was a gentle nudge back in the right direction. Clearly a bit of discussion is OK but drifting off course too far ceases to be humerous. Interesting perhaps but no longer funny.
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Nah. It’s armless 
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Groan
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It’s so cold I saw a teenager with his trousers pulled up over his Calvin Kleins and a well known politician was reportedly spotted with his hands in his own pockets.
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