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    Peaky Blinders - A world away from Downton!

    ’Ow do Elliott, sorry y’dun’t like me typin’, as I never meant it t’upset anyone an’ am surprised y’ve taken offence. Maybe best for ya to ignore me postin’s from now on then, an’ I’ll be sure not to reply t’any more of yours. All I was doin’ was addin’ a bit of Brummie colour, so, like I say...
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    Origins of the Brummie accent

    ’Ow do Nico, glad y’liked the recordin’s, there’s another good un of an Aubrey Walton of Perry Common which is a bostin’ comparison to that of Harry Phillips from Small Heath I put up before. I’d ’ave said the former is more like what I think a northern Brummie sounds like, as y’d expect give...
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    Peaky Blinders - A world away from Downton!

    ’Ow do Elliott, ar that’s interestin’ about ’em filmin’ that at the Black County Museum’s school – I liked the pic. of the copper an’ the chalk mark where the body was! By the way, did anyone else clock it when Michael said “been out in Maypole”? I thought t’meself, hang on, dun’t us Brummies...
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    Origins of the Brummie accent

    ’Ow do muckers. Right then, I trust everyone’ll bear with me whilst I try an’ ge’ t’the bottom of the Shakespearean pronunciation of ‘dignity’ an’ ‘memory’, so that they rhyme with ‘die’. In order t’do this we ’ave t’turn to the research of David Crystal, Honorary Professor of Linguistics at...
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    Origins of the Brummie accent

    ’Ow do Parsley & Nico, ar that’s a good point about ‘floor’ an’ ‘door’ bein’ said summut like ‘flo-er’ an’ ‘do-er’, or p’r’aps even more like ‘flow-a’ an’ ‘dow-a’. It’s right an’ all that more often than not these days it’s only older folk that tend t’say things that way, an’ so would be a...
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    Origins of the Brummie accent

    ’Ow do David, many thanks for comin’ back t’me about the pronunciation of ‘dignity’ an’ ‘memory’ in the Black Country. Apologies t’other members if we’re startin’ t’go a little off track agen, an’ I ’ope Smudger an’ others dun’t mind too much, but I just want t’clear this up. I mus’ also say...
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    Origins of the Brummie accent

    ’Ow do muckers, ar I know what y’mean Nico, with ‘Bobby Dazzler’, an’ ’ow at first glance it does look like it could be linked to ‘Bobby-owler’, an’ thereby to ‘Bobowler’. But, as David says, ‘Bobby Dazzler’ tends t’mean someone who’s smartly dressed, not a moth or butterfly. In the Oxford...
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    Origins of the Brummie accent

    ’Ow do Smudger, ar y’right ’ten’t nunk t’do with the Brummie accent – sorry about that! We do seem t’ave gone off on a tangent dun’t we, but in me defence I was only tryin’ to answer David’s query about ‘ooman’ an’ a possible Welsh influence on the accents of the Black Country an’ Brummagem...
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    Origins of the Brummie accent

    ’Ow do David, been lookin’ int’things after yer last post, an’ I think I may ’ave found summut of relevance. I’ve got a book ’ere called Word Maps: A Dialect Atlas of England, which ’as a map showin’ those parts of England where the word ‘woman’ is said without the ‘w’: The map, like the...
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    Stonehouse Farm area

    ’Ow do Mike, just a quick en about the snap y’put up ’ere t’replace one that was lost – I believe the one y’show is actually Weoley Castle Farm, with its old mill pond as it looked in the 1930s, rather than Stonehouse Farm. Mind, Bill Dargue’s got a nice en of Stonehouse Farm on ’is site under...
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    Origins of the Brummie accent

    ’Ow do David, ar they do ’ave a ‘bws’ over ’ere, which does sound a little like someone from the Black Country, or a broad Brummie, sayin’ ‘buz’ for bus. But I en’t sure y’could claim a direct link, an’ the similarity might just as likely be down to coincidence than actual Welsh influence on...
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    Origins of the Brummie accent

    Been ’avin’ a good ol’ mooch on this ’ere thread, which ’as been really fascinatin’. I think that Wessex is on t’summut in ’is post when ’e talks about Brummagem being on the cusp, as it were, of the accents of southern and northern England, or as JohnO calls it in his postin’ “the fault line...
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    Peaky Blinders - A world away from Downton!

    Ar I thought I’d ’eard ‘cheeky blinder’ an’ all Viv, mind, like Mike, I’ve also come across ‘cheeky blighter’ too! The Oxford English Dictionary certainly ’as ‘blighter’, which it defines as “A contemptible or unpleasant person”, but also says is “often merely as an extravagant substitute for...
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    The meaning of (what sounds lile) 'oil-tot' ?

    Ar I say oil-tot, picked it up from me ol’ man, and use it to mean happy, over the moon, equivalent to ‘in your element’. Apparently, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, this latter phrase is to do with one of the ‘four elements’, though “chiefly of air and water”, so means the...
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    Nonsuch Farm

    Bostin’ pics Mike, ta for sharing. Good en of the old Farmhouse, if a little skew-whiff! Whilst the other with everyone sitting on the wagon’s a real boster!! Anyroad, thought I’d add this copy of the old nineteenth-century Ordnance Survey map to things, showing Nonsuch Farm more or less on...
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