In Joe Lycett's new series The United States of Birmingham, the comedian travels across the world visiting other Birmininghams in the spirit of friendship. Here he educates a trucker about the beauty of the Black Country twang.
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00:01This is very specific to Birmingham.
00:03I say tuss.
00:05Tuss.
00:06Yeah, rather than tooth.
00:08And my friend from Liverpool found that very funny.
00:10She pointed and she went,
00:11What's that?
00:12And I said, Oh, it's my tooth.
00:13And she went, You sound ridiculous!
00:15And I thought,
00:17I think shots could be fired in all directions there, actually.
00:21So you would say, Hey, Mum, all eight of my tooth are loose.
00:26No, I'd say teeth.
00:27Oh, you would?
00:28But accurate that in Birmingham most people have eight teeth and they're all loose.
00:33So that's fair.
00:34We could do some black country ones.
00:36Black country?
00:37What in the world is that?
00:38The black country is a bit posh, a bit fancy.
00:42So I went to the pub.
00:43I ordered a glass of white wine.
00:45And the woman behind the bar, she went, We die of it?
00:49What do you think that means?
00:50She sneezed.
00:52I don't know.
00:53It just means we don't have wine.
00:56You're kidding me.
00:57You just need to slow down and enunciate.
01:00I would love for you to go to the black country and say,
01:03You just need to slow down and enunciate.
01:06I'd be as lost as a golf ball on highways if I went to black country.
01:09You certainly would.