Brummies share their thoughts on the accent and local sayings
I'm here today in Birmingham city centre to get peoples thoughts on the unique Brummie and West Midlands accents and hopefully hear some of their favourite local slang terms and sayings. Here's what people here had to say about the dialect that makes this city stand out.
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00:00I think the accent is quite hated around England. Whenever someone asks what's the worst accent
00:06in the UK, everyone says Brummie accent, but I think it's alright. We've got a few words
00:11like raw, any, I hear a lot of people saying, I use it myself as well. I don't think it's
00:15all that bad, you know. There's worse accents out there, but I'm not going to name names.
00:24It's a unique accent. I'm from the black country, so we tend to be separate from Birmingham.
00:38Well I grew up in the black country, so the black, it's not even an accent, it's a dialect.
00:43So I've had to ease it out as I've moved to Birmingham, but you hear the Birmingham accent
00:48less and less I'd say now. I'd say you still hear it out and about, but certainly some
00:53of the words have gone. But yeah, it's not as prevalent as it used to be, but yeah. But
01:02I'm a big fan of the Brummie accent, because it's very lyrical, very up and down, a very
01:06very, you know, it's fun to listen to, it's not a boring accent.
01:10I've always liked it. I went to uni in Yorkshire, lived down in London for a while, and I've
01:18always been proud of being from here. And I like the fact that when I chat to my mum
01:22or my brother, my accent goes a little bit more broad. And then I've lived down in Kent
01:27for a while, so you then kind of have to fit in with a little bit more of a southern twang.
01:32To say that Birmingham has an accent, it's difficult to centre it, because it's all multicultural
01:43now. You know, it's sort of foreign accents. It's Birmingham, but it has a foreign accent,
01:55you know, like West Indian or Asian or something like that.