I do believe it, it’s like London, - to an outsider it’s one urban lump, to those living in it there are distinct parts each with their own character. According to accent experts, Brummie is closest to how everyone spoke 6 or 700 years ago.
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Yo'am jokin' ay ya?
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How common.
Very common, your ancestors would be fluent in Brummie. Own it.
Apologies if I confused Brummie with Black Country, there is a difference apparently but as an outsider I can’t hear it.
To be fair, there is Black Country, and unintelligible.
Brummie is different again.
I can tell them apart, but would struggle to describe brummie.
Apart from they say "lung", and "strung", rather than "long", and "strong".
Im a posh Brummie
By "unintelligible", I mean "may as well be a different language".
Best example I can think of right now would be
"Ar bist?"
meaning
"How are you doing?"
Best example I can think of right now would be
"Ar bist?"
meaning
"How are you doing?"
I work with some Black Country folk (Tipton) god knows what they are on about....gis a fake....I had no clue at first
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Nonsence. You are mistaking dinosaurs for people. None of my anscestors could ever speak like that.
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Even in Dudley?
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Not necessarily - if his ancestors were east of what is now the A1 they would not have spoken like that at all.
Viking then
More like Saxon. Not Norse. They didn't settle so much in Mercia, preferring the real Northern climate. A Saxon army led by a woman named (?) kicked 'em out as far North as Derby in the early 10th century.
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