The Black Country dialect
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2024
- A short video trying to help people understand the Black Country dialect.
There are many more words and sayings that are not included in this vlog, so if you know of any then please let me know.
How to talk with a Black Country accent.
My mom used to buy the black country bugle every week. She still talks about Aynuk and Ayli now!
Worro Aah Kid! “Arm gooin up the bonk”. Arm catchin the Buz to Swinvert (Kingswinford) or Swin (Swindon). Brumidgam (Birmingham).
As for flurters I used to make my own because you could buy square section 1/4 in elastic. We used the wheels and axles off silver cross prams to make trollies NOT go carts and we used to lie on our bellies to make them go faster and using your trailing feet at the back to steer better. Marbles were popular or maybe botlies. In the winter using the old babies powdered milk tins and wire we used to make fire cans with wood and coke, kept them going until we were called in at about 7:30, started them off with paper and bits of stick stuck some coke in and then because we’d put holes around the sides and bottom we’d swing them around our heads to generate the heat. The games we used to play were kick the can and variations of it. Nesting for egg collection was Ok in them days because there was no scarcity of wild life then. We’d play in the sand quarry behind Wall Heath at the back of Blaze hill Rd. Where we used to live.
Bloody hell yo’ve bought up memries !! Thanks for that I enjoyed it.
Cheers Aah Kid!
You know, having been born and raised in the Black Country for many years and now living in Wales I understood everything you said. On one of my visits to Black Country museum I overheard a couple having a bit of a tiff . The chap said, if yow doe shur up I’ll bost yow faece and she retorted, ar’m more than a match fer yow ar’ll gi yow a good Thrairpin’ any day. She was,to all in tense and purposes a small and attractive woman, very pretty-with probably a useful right hook. Luv Black Country folk!
cheers from a wednesbury boy now in Australia!
I was born in Stourbridge maternity hospital 68 years ago, and was raised in Lye, by parents who both came from Lye families.
But... I've been living down south in Brighton for about 45 years. I still sound Black Country to people down here, but when I go home for a visit, friends complain that I sound like a southerner. You can't win!
TBF, I do have a glottal stop now, so I say 'waw'er' instead of 'water'. I have picked up a lot of southern speech along the way.
Same here! Born & bred in Smethwick (Smerrick), but have lived in the Portsmouth area for 54 years. Still have the accent, but have also picked up parts of the local accent. Curiously, speech in Portsmouth is different to the rest of Hampshire county - it's more akin to the London accent. Any road up, it's good to hear the Black Country accent again.
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Yes, it's the same here in Brighton,
Heading south from London, you get a soft London/estuary accent down past Croydon, but once you have reached Crawley, you are into a Sussex rural accent.
But then you reach Brighton, and you are back to a London accent!
(Sort of, anyway).
haha bostin video mate, from greets green me and my family. However grew up in Australia important for me to keep my dialect
Im from libya . I hv freinds from dudley ... i hv learned some of black country accent
I am from Serbia and have friends from Wolverhampton. Love accent
I love languages and dialects. Especially ones that are particular to an area or people.
This was a great video. Id love to head over that way ... if for no other reason than to give the locals
a few chuckles when I talk. Im an American ,from New England, through and through. And I sound like it. Thx.
It certainly turns heads. I know because I’ve been in a few local pubs to me in the Black Country with a female American friend lol
black country born n bred me, gimme a message if ya fancy a lessn.
How are you - how bin yer? That's what i've heard of in my 2 years in Dudley
And ‘awroit mate’
Well if them bay winders. Wot bin um. Black country mon born and bred. Live in Scotland now. But i always miss the place i couldn't get away from fast enough. Never thought i would long for the smell of foundries long gone. DARTMOUTH AUTO CAST. THOMAS DUDLEY.AND A THOUSAND MORE. 😢
Why do they need a slang term for a catapult? This place must be awesome
My moms aunties would say ooh yow Cor do that ar kid, this came about when we as a family decided to up sticks and move to new Zealand. I sometimes use black country lingo when I talk to my kiwi mates. I would use the black country lingo when I would get a bit kalied, my missus and her mom would start laughing. One day I told one of my gaffers at the fish factory he was "cowin yampy and I was going to lump him one in the fizhog he looked at me as if I was dead yampy
I am a Brummie and the two glossaries do coincide sometimes( much to the disgust of some yam-yams) but one comment still makes me smile today. I had, together with my Black Country partner, a small joinery company. We bought an Italian machine that proved to be useless so the suppliers swapped it for a new one. That machine burned out in a week and that too was swapped together with an apology from the manufacturers and a promise that an Italian rep from the company. I explained this to a Black Country chap who was a sometimes customer.
This is what he said,’ well Al if he cossant understond ya, yow send for we’. You had to be there to here the accent.
Don't forget that you would get different words and phrases common to a particular town or area. Also what you call Brum now was not over 150 years ago. Places like Handsworth, Perry Barr, Great Barr, Quinton were not part of Brum and would have been considered Black Country so that's probably were you get that convergence. It was never properly defined but the four Boroughs are where you would call it. Back in the 19th century Southerners even included places like Cannock(and why not) and as far as Stoke as the Black Country because of the industries. They always used to say when I was a kid that the Brummies knew where the Black Country was because they did not want to be associated with it.
Just for a few minutes I was home at 232 Birmingham road, it's now in the black country museum, a cast iron house that would freeze the nuts off a brass monkey in winter, my accent has softened a bit since i last walked them streets up until 1970 and the dudley i knew is long gone, must get back for a look round, bit of a trip up from the cotswolds.
SWEATIN LIKE A ROBBERS OSS
the old uns would say the blackcountry was 30 min walk from the bottom of dudley castle hill ,in each direction that was it ,alot say the boarder of smethwick up to sedgley across to stourbridge n bridgenorth ,across to nearthrton and boader to wolverhampton, not walsall,i was born n beed in tipton aka the lost city,the dialect is held from old small villages at the time no need to change from old middle english folks didnt travel very far so it held the dialect, and when heavy industry came in was a way to spake without outsiders uderstanding it combined with hand signs because of loud factories allso lip movement without spaken er al git muo sense ot er wammel
you need to explain YamYam is it because you say howam ya?
Wednesbury wench now living in Wiltshire, I’m still Black Country ay I.
Can you do a slot on the I am, you am, we am, they am 😀 when I first left Wednesbury to go abroad a southerner said what the hell is that language 😂
bet yowm living the life up there ay ya?
My favourite sayings-
There's a jed oss in the cut!
I woz wellie clommed ter jeth!
Can you translate please grandad?
Also, if you took sandwiches to work for lunch you took your "snap"
'There is a dead horse by the pond/lake/river.'
'I was full to death' eg im full.
You slipped up there ,,,heavy hammers is evy ommers
Where yo bin? I bin cooming
Parts of Halesowen???
Ow bin ya, bin ya know
How about words fayture and nayd for feature and need? Still in use in spaych?
It's not wash! It's swill! I'm gewin for a swill
yow,ve neva lived in the Black Countree sew ow dun yow no.
dead right, a swill was a face and hands wash.
Swill ya hands
wammell
Dog
As in “Ah’m a tekkin’ the wammell fer a drag” - walking the dog !
I've fun a fiver on the floher
Yo forgot YOOM and WEEM
Git som ommer
Metropolita est dialectus, quae Italica est
Who da fuck am yo ?
must be the worst accent in the known universe !
No that’s the Scouse accent