AIBU to think that I need to start a thread about the Birmingham dialect?

[threeelephants]

I'm so annoyed lately at all of the threads belittling my accent/dialect. I'd like to describe it as snobbery but I actually feel it goes beyond that.

In Birmingham we say mom, not mum. It has been this way for at least a hundred years. It is not 'Amercanism', in fact it was us who took the word over there. Mum is a slang word, it isn't 'the correct term' in anyway-if you want to have a dig at me saying mom then you'd better be calling yours mother!

We eat nougat and pronounce it nugat (not nugget, like some of you seem to think). We also eat marshmellows...tbh I'd never noticed there was supposed to be an a in there!

We pronounce tooth with the shorter oo sound (like in book, look, foot etc).

We are not uneducated, nor are we all bloody working class!

And while we're here, dinner is a hot meal, doesn't matter what time of day you eat it, lunch is a cold meal in the middle of the day, tea is a simple meal at the end of the day and supper is a biscuit before bed.

The Birmingham accent/dialect is the closest in existence to how Chaucer/Shakespeare would have spoken. Which makes us more correct than most of you.

[EastMidsMummy]

Other people call a forward roll a forward roll.

[SleepingStandingUp]

I want to commission a full Brummy / Black Country Romeo and Juliet.

[SleepingStandingUp]

EastMids, but forward roll is the description of a gambol.

[EastMidsMummy]

Trust me, no-one outside of Birmingham uses the word gambol. Nor is there an equivalent. A forward roll is just a forward roll just as a backwards roll is a backwards roll.

[Fluffyears]

Just because that’s the accent Shakespeare had doesn’t mean it’s ‘correct’ he could have come from Liverpool or Glasgow, all dialects are correct.

[TreesAgreen]

Oh, if we are discussing forward rolls, what about tipple tale?

Is tipple tale a regional thing too?

[SleepingStandingUp]

Sometimes I remember that some people don't know that holding your tiptop for too long gives you cold donnies, and that makes me sad :(

I'm not a fan of I ay, I wow, I car, yaw what? Etc, but I do like our words

Wulfrunian not a Brummie

[SleepingStandingUp]

EastMidsMummy its a gambol in Wolverhampton too

[EduCated]

Pretty sure gambol is commonly used across areas of South Wales too.

[EastMidsMummy]

OK, it's rolled as far as Wolverhampton, but not much further.

(Tipple tale??)

[StripySocksAndDocs]

That was the point being made Fluffyears. Said in reaction to the nth thread (in less than n days) about aspects of the Birmingham accent being 'wrong'.

[SleepingStandingUp]

You means its gambolled its way to Wolves.
What is Tipple Tale?

[whippetwoman]

Try coming from Essex. Everyone automatically took the piss for years due to Essex girls. I don’t have a London Essex accent either as I am from North Essex. In fact I didn’t think I had an accent until some friends from Surrey imitated the way I spoke which is a local Essex/Suffolk accent. Then spent a year in America as a child so had my accent imitated for a year, came home and everyone laughed as I sounded American.

Now live in Warwickshire about 15 miles from Stratford on Avon and my youngest definitely has a slight touch of the Brummie/Midlands about him.

[Idontbelieveinthemoon]

I grew up in Birmingham and went to live with adopted parents away from Birmingham at 10 years old. My Mum refused to speak to me saying "I can't speak to you until you stop speaking Brummie". As a 10 year old who was just desperate for a family I'd have painted myself blue and learned to be an avatar if it meant having a home, so I trained myself out of my accent and now speak with the plummy accent she drilled into me.

It's the oddest thing, looking back, that she'd change a child's entire speech pattern and accent simply because she didn't like it. She's clearly batshit.

SIL's and her DC have very strong Brummie accents and my DCs love it and think their accents are fab.

[PasstheStarmix]

than most of you? what are we?

[PasstheStarmix]

There’s loads of local dialects. Why is is a competition op?

[PasstheStarmix]

it

[TheJoyOfSox]

I moved to the outskirts of Birmingham a few years ago, I love the locals accents.

I can also hear a difference between a Brummie and a Black Country accent and get annoyed when my family try to take the mick out of a Brummie accent and then do a Black Country one.

I have to agree with pp that Birmingham is the very friendliest of cities. I’m not convinced a brum accent is the loveliest but it’s far from the worst and if it was my accent I’d be upset at people mocking me for it.

Stay proud op, Birmingham is a fantastic city full of wonderful people, architecture, art, glamour, cocktails, Michelin stars, celebrities, humour and is so much more than the sum of its parts.

[PasstheStarmix]

It would be a borning work if we all sounded the same and thank god for different pronounciation.

[PasstheStarmix]

r*

[PasstheStarmix]

world*

[TreesAgreen]

Tipple tail (Sorry spelt it wrong earlier) is a forward roll, a backwards tipple tail is a backwards roll.

Yorkshire

[littlemissminor]

I LOVE a brummie accent, so much so I bagged myself a brummie DP

I have a very strong Somerset accent and would choose his accent over mine any day!

[TreesAgreen]

And rolly polly (side ways roll)

[TheJoyOfSox]

I’ve just read (quickly skimmed) the full thread and disappointed that no mention of a buzz , it’s what the locals call a bus and always makes me smile to hear this.