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Hello Mike, I live in Quinton and have noticed what you say to be true.
Personally I don't mind accents, it is the total disregard of the actual language that annoys me. My great grand daughter used to speak very nicely until she started school. Since then tea time has become tea-ime and party has become par'y, this has nothing to do with a Brummie accent but it is how many speak from all over the country.
 
I love accents from anywhere and everywhere,but as you say its not about accents,wha eva,warta,tek it,and so often nobody corrects it so it becomes the norm,
 
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Bloomin aida - if it sticks in ya craw, we should bung up their cakehole - but no need to gerra a fizzog as lung as Livery Street or get mardy. Am gooin round the Wrekin ere but basically worritiz, roight, is the thread is deffo about slang and accent . Ok oil get mi coat - I'll have arf an a cob mate
 
maggieuk said:
:D:D:DFatfingers ..suppose i was posh cos we lived in a front house in the back to backs in Hockley:Dand no i didnt have pas milk i had nestle's out of a tin;):Dyer right there Elizabeth us in Hockley did say bathroom even though we never had one:beam:
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Thought so - we only had that on Sundays in our house, poured over tinned oranges !
 
thanks Stitcher.....At last someone understands what i'm trying to say......It's not about being posh or inverted snobbery I come from working class stock......Bargees.
Mike.
 
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Couldnt agree more, why do they miss out the T all of the ime, innit ? At least with a B'Ham accent we replace it with an R
Even the BBC presenters on Blue Peter do it.

I dont FINK its just cos I'm Gerrin old. lol
 
mike, we all know that change takes place naturally in most things but the gu''a gramar spoken today was not natural change. It started with people from another country talking that way, and then being copied by our own who think it is cool.
 
When I was young yow and ain't and gunna was quite common but I never hear it these days, language is always evolving, but I hate some of the expressions we hear today.
 
The worst expressions and cliques used today are on that programme DOCTORS I have never heard such crap in all my life. Not a bad series except for the childish expressions
I am sure B'ham people don't use talk like that !
Mike..
 
sylviasayers said:
When I was young yow and ain't and gunna was quite common but I never hear it these days, language is always evolving, but I hate some of the expressions we hear today.
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G/DAY....
I.m told i now have a delightful Aussie accent by overseas visitors i meet daily in my work and that
loosing the Brummie accent isn,t a bad thing:(...
Dropping the H is a very Brum thing... "Put your AT on or Ya ead will get cold"
"You live in a nice ouse don ya...
"Aint it ot today i.m boilin":rolleyes:
Fair Dinkum....Did i ever talk like that!
 
G'day Davpen,
One of my grandaughters is true blue, fair dinkum,born in Perth W.A.,but she can "do" a better Brummie accent than me...and I was born and grew up in Aston.:rolleyes:
 
This is really an interesting topic, I cant help smiling to myself then I hear an Asian chap speaking with either a Black Country of Birmingham accent, quite normal obviously but it still maked me smile.

One thing that had puzzled me was the Actor Mark Williams, he of Harry Potter, Fast Show, fame. he has done a number of interesting documentries about Railways currently on" Discovery Shed" from time to time. I assumed he was a Brummie but I believe he comes from Bromsgrove. Im sure there is more than just a hint of Brummie and after all Bromsgrove is not really very far away. I particularly like the way he slowly alters it to a deliberately cultured and refined accent if he is making a particular point, uually at the end of sentance.
 
Always seems genuinly proud of anything from Brum though dont he ?

I dont watch Train programs, but the Industrial Revelations ones are good.
 
Talk about brummie slang and brummie accent.....l was pulled over by a cop a couple of hours ago for speeding (doing 43mph in a 35mph zone) after checking me out to see if l was a wanted felon etc, he gave me a ticket but mentioned what a nice accent l have and how long had l'd been living in Texas, when l told the officer longer than he was born, he said l should have a texan accent by now, but liked my accent better, so once a brummie always a brummie......Brenda
 
HI Fatfinger
just like the english pound as dwindled just like your to two bobs worth as gone
not being funny with you ;how do you come to the conclusion winson green folk speak
like the black country folk theres no comparison i spent alot of my time during my early years
more than i would like to admitt and i do not mean being in the nick
i am fairly well known in the area and no most people from the green and they no me
even the shop keepers in the area from one end to the other right up to the cape
they do not sound nothink like it i am an astonian born and bred and dragged up ;
i speak with a grammour of a brummie
alot of people think that the black country accent is brummy but its comletely different
and i hav to smile when i hear these actors trying to put a cross the brummie accent
and in fact thats wha they do an black country accent
have a nice day and best wishes to every body from a brummie ter ra speak soon ; ASTONIAN ;;
 
Astonian said:
HI Fatfinger
just like the english pound as dwindled just like your to two bobs worth as gone
not being funny with you ;how do you come to the conclusion winson green folk speak
like the black country folk theres no comparison i spent alot of my time during my early years
more than i would like to admitt and i do not mean being in the nick
i am fairly well known in the area and no most people from the green and they no me
even the shop keepers in the area from one end to the other right up to the cape
they do not sound nothink like it i am an astonian born and bred and dragged up ;
i speak with a grammour of a brummie
alot of people think that the black country accent is brummy but its comletely different
and i hav to smile when i hear these actors trying to put a cross the brummie accent
and in fact thats wha they do an black country accent
have a nice day and best wishes to every body from a brummie ter ra speak soon ; ASTONIAN ;;
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Wotcha,

Think you misunderstood me, What I said was "I reckon as you go towards the Black Country, say Great Barr, or Winson Green its gradually gets a bit more Black Country"

I agree its not a Black Country accent round there, but its , or was a few years ago, different to say Aston, which itself is diferent enough to Small Heath for me to notice it.

btw, I dont know Winson Green all that well, but in the 60s I was an apprentice in a TV and electrical shop, more or less next door to Woolies on Dudley Rd. Don spose anybody on here got a photo have they ?
 
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