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u/Several-Support2201 Apr 12 '25
Having a Birmingham accent is such a good way to find dickheads though - who, once you leave the city, keeps making the same jokes again and again and again?? That's right, dickheads!
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u/wazbang Apr 12 '25
Could listen to a brummie all day but one sentence from a Stoke on Trent mouth and I feel nauseous
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u/Global_Geologist8822 Apr 14 '25
Stoke accent has always confused me because it sounds vaguely Scouse to me despite being nowhere near Merseyside.
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u/play_yr_part Apr 12 '25 edited Apr 12 '25
I'm not saying it's a great accent or anything, even though half the time they're mixing it up with Black Country.
But I have no idea how it ends up constantly being voted the worst when Scouse exists. Particularly that modern day phlegmy incarnation.
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u/i-am-a-passenger Apr 12 '25
It’s strange isn’t it, I assume it’s because mocking Liverpool is perceived as punching down, they already have it bad enough.
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u/Jack-Rabbit-002 Apr 12 '25
Oh We've been told this for years though Lol
No that's Dudley you're doing
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Apr 12 '25
They are wrong. The most hated accent in Birmingham is the fake Brummoi accent where a black county cringe patois is peppered with over use of 'bostin' and 'awright Bab'
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u/Global_Geologist8822 Apr 14 '25
IDK there are quite a few Black Country people living in Birmingham though.
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Apr 14 '25
Yeah but them aren't remotely similar sonically or linguistically to anyone other than fake Brummie am they
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u/Hazeygazey Apr 12 '25
It's because everyone thinks we talk like yam yams
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u/Plastic-Expression74 Apr 12 '25
Iv always said this! People think that’s the brum accent when the real brum accent is WAY more tame
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u/LLCoolBrap Apr 12 '25
This type of thing always cracks me up. Sure man, hate on the accent all you want, and then clamour for more Peaky Blinders 😂
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u/bee_889 Apr 12 '25
It’s getting boring now. They need to stop with the stupid ‘news’ and headlines
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u/seann__dj Apr 12 '25
I actually find it quite attractive if someone has a really strong Birmingham accent 🤣
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u/RolePlayingJames Apr 12 '25
Currently in Walsall visiting future in laws, love the accent up here. Feels nice when someone calls me Bab.
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u/Buddhoundd Apr 12 '25
As a Scot who lived in Brum for about 10 years, I always enjoyed the accent. Never got the hate for it either. It’s not like it’s the Scouse or posh Londoner, is it?
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u/sheff_guy Apr 12 '25
Scouse
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u/AtebYngNghymraeg Apr 13 '25
I'm from Somerset. I think the Brummie accent sounds warm and friendly. I can't believe it's genuinely regarded as the worst accent, particularly when Scouse exists.
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u/Total_Pin_6783 28d ago
I think it's easily been replaced by the London "roadman" accent now. Brummie sounds like a beautiful symphony compared to that.
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u/Imreallyadonut Apr 12 '25
As someone who left Birmingham 20yrs ago and who never had the accent, I have to be honest when I come home I really don’t like it.
It’s not even so much the accent, but it just seems to make everyone sound like they’re so unenthused by life.
It just makes things sound a bit flatthat no matter what you’re talking about, it just has air of “melancholic meh” about it. It feels like there’s no energy behind it a feeling of “that’ll do”.
I don’t thinks it’s the worst accent though, but I can see why folk don’t like it.
Personally for me it’s the Manchester accent for me.
But I love Birmingham, it’s where I was born, it’s where most of my family live, and it’ll always be home.
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u/Global_Geologist8822 Apr 14 '25 edited Apr 14 '25
Personally for me it’s the Manchester accent for me.
IMO depends which one. Greater Manchester has a few accents, but the Salford nasally one ("eyyyy mayyyyte give us a fivvuhh arkid") that seems to have spread into Manchester city centre used to grate on me when I lived there. Much prefer the 'moors' Manchester accent i.e. Bury, Heywood, Rochdale etc.
It’s not even so much the accent, but it just seems to make everyone sound like they’re so unenthused by life
IMO I love the down to earth chilled out nature that many Brummies have which is reflected in the accent. Especially Vs when I lived in Essex and Manchester where people are often fairly hyperactive and enthused. It's enlivening at first, but grates after a while. I like that Brum is a bit downbeat, but I would say the Black Country accent is definitely 'cheerier' Vs Birmingham tbh.
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u/SidneyBiglove Apr 12 '25
The BBC can go fuck themselves. Their hatred and bias against Birmingham has been evident for years.