In defence of the Brummie accent
Police in Wales are probing a derogatory letter targeting Birmingham accents, deemed "vomit-inducing", left in Aberystwyth. The hand-written note, which appeared on January 8, sparked a hate incident investigation by local Police, urging witnesses to come forward.
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00:00 Now, I'll buy a Brummie, I'm a Yam Yam, not that half the country can tell heads or tails
00:05 of the difference but, today I've been asked to make a video in defence of the Brummie
00:09 accent after a note was found in Aberystwyth calling it vomit inducing and telling people
00:15 from the Midlands to go back home.
00:17 Now, I ain't convinced the police need to get involved because in my view the punishment
00:22 is implicit in the act.
00:24 It's not worth getting a cob on about it because if this person don't want a Brummie friend
00:28 in their life then they're missing out because Brummies are some of the most friendly and
00:32 welcoming people out there.
00:35 It's a big city with a small town mentality that invites anyone into its ever growing
00:39 community.
00:40 And that welcoming spirit is epitomised by its distinctive roots.
00:45 It's born from the dialect still used in the black country where I call them which retains
00:49 much of the Germanic roots spoken by the Anglo-Saxons who inhabited the region.
00:55 As Birmingham burgeoned into a market town over the years it attracted people from all
01:00 across the country and later the world leading Brummies to start speaking a more proper form
01:05 of English while retaining the sonic qualities of their forebears.
01:10 And that may not always sound the most eloquent with the drawn out vowels, soft consonants
01:15 and often anachronistic sounding phrases but it's hard to deny the charms of its melody
01:20 and rhythm which has a certain warmth to it perhaps only paralleled by our Yorkshire brethren.
01:27 So anyone who don't like it can 0-1-2-1, it's nothing to look down on, I think it's time
01:32 Brummies embraced it as an important element of the culture and to never tone it down.
01:38 To R a bit.