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They are at our Brummie accent again

As I have already said I let it go over my head, we have not got to be what others would prefer , if folk dont accept me for what I am then I dont particulary want them around any way, lifes about being yourself, one of the hardest things for a lot of people is accepting that, they spend their lives trying to be something they are not, thats not what life is about is it? Birmingham people are the salt of the earth type and by gum i'm proud of that fact!
 
Mysterymermaid, how refreshing to find some-one with 'Common Sense'
 
Perhaps they are ... al kippers and curtains as my nan used to say ? :) ... yeah ut it aint no joke when you work with it day in and day out :)
But yes I am a brummie and proud of it :)
Hugs xxx jean
 
I had to leave a message with the adult daughter of someone and she said. "I can't understand you, your accent is so thick". I was furious and when I saw her mom I said "Oh your daughter said my accent was too strong for her to understand." She just said "That is my daughter". That changed my feeling to the mom as well, if it had been me I would have apologised for my daughter, but then she would not say something like that. Mo
 
Sakura, remember the thread about Memories. This type of thing is what I was always trying to say. money and possesions will never be a suitable replacement for Manners, Etiquette and respect. I can not tell the difference between accents from different parts of Scotland or Wales. I just accept that they speak differently to us. Other people think that Brummies all speak with the very heavy Black Country twang. I was born and raised in Birmingham by a working class family, yet in other areas people have said I do not sound like a Brummie. I got fed up of wasting my time explaining.
 
thick sakura you,ve hit the nail right on the head,and mysterymermaid go girl!!
i was born in nechells b,ham 7 and proud of it they want puttin in the miskin and mind the horseroad. you are what you are unless and again who cares that you,ve had a real good education. a true brummie does,nt forget there roots.
thats my input happy days regards dereklcg. ( crabbs x )
 
Hope this is the right pic with the miskin and aunt Lil on Derek. I let it go over my head when people take the Mick about us now. Years ago when I was a teenager I stayed at Benfleet Essex and the locals nicknamed me Marlene. Jean.
 
no problem it,s a nice photo anyway Jean.
my mate who i,m meeting up with on Tuesday morning
drives a road sweeper for miskin sweepers
catch you later regards Derek.
 
Sakura,I don't understand why you got so annoyed.

She explained herself well.

My husband is Birmingham born and bred and cannot understand many accents,he once had to say to someone in a Newcastle call centre'I am sorry I cannot
understand your accent I will put my wife on'

I come from the Potteries/Staffordshire moorlands and when we visit my relatives he has to concentrate really hard on what they say to understand them.
 
Alberta - My post may have come over different to what I meant. I was hurt more than anything not annoyed, it was the way she said it not what she said. I thought it was very rude. I was polite to her and didn't say anything back about her accent.
I have a problem understanding people who call from the call centres and I might say I am sorry I don't understand. But I try and would never be rude to them as I'm an immigrant the same as they are although from a different continent. Mo
 
Although I am not doing much work with my market research respondents who are on my database to go to give their opinion in a paid focus group session these days. I have people from all over the world on said database. No one in l5 years has ever said the correct answer as to where I come from originally.
Many people say "Love your accent. Where in England/Ireland/Australia/South Africa are you from?"
I have learned to be patient with people who call who do not have a complete grasp of the English language and sometimes it can be funny because the
person can't truly understand me and I cannot truly understand them. I have had some good laughs with these people because of this.

My father's family lived in Wolverhampton for decades and he spoke with
a Black Country accent which at times could be hard to understand because of the different(to Brum) dialect and item names, etc.
 
Many people say "Love your accent. Where in England/Ireland/Australia/South Africa are you from?"
I have learned to be patient with people who call who do not have a complete grasp of the English language and sometimes it can be funny because the
person can't truly understand me and I cannot truly understand them. I have had some good laughs with these people because of this.
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Jenny - that has been my experience and the incident I mention that Alberta commented on was isolated.
I mix with a lot of people of all nationalities every week at the farm and never a day there goes by without someone asking where I come from. And as you say people say they love my accent. A lot of people their ancestors were from the UK and they may never have been there.
One day I was thrilled when I was with a group of young people from the local psychiatric hospital and one of the boys asked me about my accent and proceeded to give me a geography lesson. His knowledge was amazing and it gave him such pleasure to share it. Mo
 
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My 1 year old granddaughter was born in and lives in Yorkshire and is therefore a 'Yorkshire Lass'. Its been suggested that I don't speak to her for at least 5 years in case she picks up a 'brummie accent' !!
I'm practicing a few 'eck as like' sayings - or is that from Lancashire ?

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My two grandchildren have dual accents half Hertforshire and half Brummy. It's so funny as in the middle of a converstion with a Brummy accent they suddenly sound rather posh and come out with things like i'm going to have a barth. Bev my daughter in law reverts back to her down south accent when her family visit and it takes a while for her to loose it. Children in her class at school say "why are you talking different miss". Bye. Jean.
 
I love local accents, its almost like a strong foundation to what we are if we are proud of what we are and where we come from.
 
The truth of the matter Maureen your friends daughter is all wet - you speak very clear - unless you used some English expression she didn't understand
 
I can dip my tail every day lol I work for a aquatic importer and have thousands of fishie wishies, crabs, lobsters etc to chat to
 
I was in Montgomery Alabama,looking for Hank Williams grave, I asked an old guy with a young lad, after I finished speaking with him, as I walked away the little lad said "where does he come from grandad" the reply was "I think he's from Australia".
Hello June. John.
 
My sister has lived in California for years and is often taken for Australian. I have lived in Canada for years too and all the time I am taken for Italian - till I open my mouth to speak then they know I am English
 
I was born in the Staffordshire moorlands and came to Birmingham as a child,my parents always kept their moorlands accent.
Goodness knows what mine sounds like,I usually get asked what part of Liverpool I live in,but on recordings I am just like a Brummie born and bred.
 
One of the more recent surveys predictably reports the Brummie accent as the worst in the Country; BUT it also suggests that foreigners place it near the top of preferred accents as it sounds “melodious”.

Part of the problem is the linking of comedy characters with the Brummie accent (or their version of it) – as far back as Marlene and more recently, the Fast Show – “I’ll get me coat then”. Even the ads portray it – “We just want to be togetha”.

When I vist the US I’m Australian – because all English people speak like the Queen, the Beatles or Eastenders! Even in a curry house in Coleshill I was asked if I was Suth Efrican.

Although I would accept that it can be a drawback, I would not swap my Brummie sense of humour for an accent like Richard Burton’s (well perhaps I’m lying – I could have been married to Liz Taylor)
 
Richard Burton now there's a man who had a lovely speaking voice - one most men would like to have. I have several recordings of his poety readings which I treasure.
 
i have a very strong brummie accent and when i was at work the other night an asian lad said i sound really POSH!!
 
An young Indian neighbour once asked me if I would record an answer message for some business he was starting. I had to advise him that his speech and virtually non-Indian accent was 'posher' than my brummie accent and it would be better if he done it himself - he was surprised, but quite pleased !
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hi.just listening to a prog on bbc7,and they are taking the pi out of the brummy accents again. why is it when some thing STUPID is broadcast.the voice of the said person has to be a brummy voice ?,i think it is insulting."WE ARE FAR FROM STUPID"and brummies "do not fall in love wih cows".
 
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