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I'm not native to Birmingham, I only moved up here a few years ago but I think I've a decent understanding of local dialect and accent, hence my question.
Why is it that EVERYONE who tries to poke fun at the Birmingham accent actually trieds to mimic the Black Country accent instead?
:-?
And WHY do you call Roundabouts Islands? haha
By the way I don't think I'll ever move back to Oxford, Birmingham is much more fun.
Because to an untrained ear the black country dialect is a broader version of Brummie therefore is used as a "worst case" scenario in jokes. This also annoys people from the black country who tend to be very independent in nature having always been accused of being Brummies .
I think a similar situation exists in the North East with Geordie's and Macams.
This also annoys people from the black country who tend to be very independent in nature having always been accused of being Brummies .
For sure! It's amazing the difference for such a relatively small area. I have friends in south Birmingham who sound very different from my friends in North Birmingham, it's only about 5 or so miles difference!
You've got it in one, Pete.
Just to complicate matters, people refer to "Black Country Accent".
It is, in fact, not an accent, but a dialect. Within that dialect there is a number of recognisably different accents.
And WHY do you call Roundabouts Islands? haha
We only do it in a roundabout way.
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Just to complicate matters, people refer to "Black Country Accent".
I was generalising I'm rather protective of the west midlands although i've only lived here since Dec '03. Many of my southern friends so ridiculously stereotypical of this area yet few of them have bothered to come and visit to see for themselves! The ones that have come back frequently, the nightlife in Birmingham is far, far better than Oxford, that's for sure.
From a black country lad born and bred. it is mistaken for the brummie one nearly every time. if you have no connection of us locals in the black country then you probably wont even know the difference, but to a trained ear, they sound nothing alike. do yow know wot i mean, aar kid
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I'm a proper black country girl, and when my husband first moved down here from Scotland to study at Wolverhampton Uni he was totally lost for words, he just couldn't make head nor tail of some of the lingo.
'bostin' was something he hadn't heard of. Or 'am ya' was another, that always makes him laugh!
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