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Saying Grass, Not Grarse and Glass, Not Glarse :)

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Drives me mad sometimes that 'southerners' can't understand this. :2funny:

Glass and Grass has just one 'a' in them.
Yes?
So, it's glass, not glarse, and grass, not glarse. 8)

Married to a Londoner with a louder voice than mine ;) our kids talk like him (I've tried to tech 'em to speak propa ^-^)
but I think the teachers at their schools must have thought they were brought up posh or something. ::)
They wouldn't if they heard the other stuff my husband comes out with and his rhyming slang..

Can anyone think of any other examples that us Brummies pronounce different to the southerners?
 
I went to work in London in the 1970's and was ridiculed for calling a bus "a buzz".

Other term that comes to mind is "guzz" for goes, i.e. "It guzz in there".

It was also pointed that I pronounced bang "ban--gguh" (hard to spell, the emphasis is on the final g, I never could hear how the typical Londoner said different to the way i said it).
 
Hi Kenneth,
I've heard before that us Brummies pronounce the final "ing" with a sort of click at the back of the throat that sounds like an extra "g". So I've been sitting here practising and it's hard not to do without trying hard and I've been out of Birmingham for over 30 years !
A little off topic, but the other day a friend had no idea what canting was. Poor, uneducated souls around here also think Black Country is the same as Brummie :tickedoff: :tickedoff:
 
oh yeh, that annoys me too.
When they portray a Brummie on T.V. it is usually a Black Country accent they use.

Also, that they inevitably make the Brummies out to be thickos, like in some adverts etc >:(
 
Around here they have a lazy way of speaking and miss words out like "...I'm going bed"  and they have the nerve to take the wotsit out of me  :2funny:  And......have you noticed that everyone can "do" a Brummie accent or think they can.
 
Yep ;)

my husband, the Londoner...says to people we have been talking to, 'see you later.' (when we probably won't be seeing them for ages)...
the first few times he did it, I thought, 'what's he on about'?
I'm sure it must have confused some of them...I used to think it was just him, making a mistake, and then I heard other Londoners saying it...
 
And.....those folk who say break fast as two separate words. Ok we know that's what it is, but most of us say breakfast.

Shame we can't all come from God's county aint it? Off to get luncheon now :idiot2:
 
On our local radio a couple of days ago the news reader was telling of the lastest in "Harndsworth" :tickedoff:. it drove me potty and as I was in the "barth" I very nearly "drownded" ( ye goode olde Brummie word)!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Jerry touched on a point ;) but arse seems to be the only word we Midlanders and them Southerners agree on. :o

Two more that irritates me whoever utters them: often - I was taught the T should be silent; and Oiland or Ieland for Ireland.

And like Grace, I hate the omission of pronouns, which, unfortunately, seems to be becoming the norm. :tickedoff:
 
Well  I live on the south coast now and we have a company called Covers.....and they call it :tickedoff:  Co-vers,  they call a Bath Plug.. ;D..a Barth Plag, a  Puppy is a Poppy :idiot2:, and with all their southern education.....they still don't know what a Bob Owler is ;).........a Duck is a Dock ;D.....and Masking Tape is Marskin Tape :coolsmiley:.....but I am still carrying on down here as a Missionary !!!!!! :uglystupid2:
 
MIKEFLAN a scholar & gentleman of the finest order,,GRACE (My Sis :-*) Knit him a pair of your finest
Leather Under apparrel (To My special pattern :-[) to protect him from the Heathens," Daowne Souf", O0
 
My husband and his brother have lovely Brummie accents and I love it when they are talking about different areas,they leave the 'w'out of everything so Tamworth and Minworth become Tamuth and Minuth.
 
:angel: Well my daughter has just been speakin' toYoung Ian (son of Young John) on the phone (here in NZ)... "Mom I'll need you there to translate when I meet him" ...I luv it :)

Chris :angel:
 
David Spears said:
We Brummies and West Midlanders can often be picked out and identified by the rest by the way we pronounce Year; if you wish to keep everyone guessing where you originate from be careful and say year as in 'hear' and not as Yer.
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I say it like 'yer.' (My mom is Brummie)
But I think my Irish descent relatives (my dad was Irish) in B'ham, sound the 'a'...as in ye'a'r.

as they also say, any, with the emphasis on a 'short a,' as opposed to 'eny,' as we Brummies say...
 
Ahm also preachin on the sarf coazt - an I sez "Cassell" not carstle or castle (but Oi dawnt livvin won O0
 
Hi as a second hand brummie (my nan came from Aston via Redditch to Bristol) I can confidently say that this Southern area still says Baath and Graas perhaps we caught it from real brummies who came to Weston Super Mare and Brean for their hols.I still have a mixed accent as my Nan featured a lot in my life when I were young so I still ask wheres it too and occasionally add "L" to words so that area becomes areal
JS
 
I remember when I was in NZ getting into a heated argument with a lady shopkeeper who berated me for calling 'Pall Mall' cigarettes PAL MAL. She insisted that they be called PAUL MAUL. Some of the other customers in the shop joined in as well. When my Brummie mate and I worked for the Perth Mint, we used to stir everyone up by insisting that we were the only two people in the whole organisation that didn't have accents. :uglystupid2:
 
I think years in Australia knocked a lot of the Brummie accent out of my dad's speech, but he did say PAL MAL when we were playing Monopoly :) He also said thruppence and Brummagem, but apart from that there wasn't much of an accent left at all. We had people from Brum staying in our B and B recently and when I asked where they were from they grinned - can't you tell from our accents, they said. Brummies of course. They may join this forum - were very interested when I told them about it.
 
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