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.

[aRespectableBureaudeChange]

Oh cute!

[SleepingStandingUp]

Yow aye gooin to the os and cart again am ya?

[KriticalSoul]

brummie here.

tuth (Not tooth)
buzz (not bus)
I have a Mom, not a mum

and I always get sick on holiday, and this is how I tell people.. I ay bin on 'olidee yet where I ay cum back wi' sommat.

[NotExactlyHappyToHelp]

Os has just reminded me of MIL’s favourite joke. Got to be said in a broad Brummie accent.

‘What’s an hospice?’

‘About a gallon.’

[ByTheWardrobe]

Some vinegar/ mayonnaise/ ketchup for that chip on your shoulder?

[paperbackbutterfly]

I'm not a Brummie I come from the Black Country and I speak with a local accent. My Mom would be offended if I called her 'Mum' ( a mummy is a dead Egyptian, a mommy is a care giver). I also speak ( or should it be spake) dialect. I am not under-educated as I have a masters degree although I am probably working class. Ivykaty44 yes, Shakespeare was from Stratford (allegedly) but the point is that the dialect has been replaced by RP throughout most of England but not in the Black Country. Most of Shakespeare's best puns and jokes are lost because of the forced accent and lack of dialect in modern speech. An example is: Much Ado About Nothing. 'Nothing' was pronounced 'No-tin' in Elizabethan times. Similar to Black Country/Brummie accented pronunciation today. (although in dialect this is 'nowt') and a lady's front bottom was also called a 'notin' as a slang term. Therefore the pun of the title is now lost. Having an accent and using dialect makes us no better (or worse) than anyone else but I am proud to be Black Country.

[aRespectableBureaudeChange]

So do you mean no-tin sounding bit like "know" tin? Or a more short no (like a Spanish person saying 'no'?!?!