Brummie accent

Brummie Accent

by Zuzia Zatorska

Index

6. Lexis and syntax characteristic to that variety.

1. Orgin

2. Where it is used and by whom

7. The future of this dialect.

3. Its past and present associations.

4. Famous people using that dialect.

5. Phonological characteristic - differences between this variety and standard forms of English.

Also known as Birmingham dialect. It's a demonym for people from Birmingham

Orgin

Brummie derives from Brummagem (a historical variant of Birmingham)

Where it is used and by whom

Brummie is used in Birmingham and surrounding areas by it is used by people living in Birmingham, that is located in the Midlands, UK

Its past and present associations

1. associated things that forged or inauthentic
2. by the 19th centuary associated with things that seem expensive but really are of low quality like gilt jewerelly
3. least attractive accent
4. unthrustworthy
5. used to be associated with savoir faire
6. sounds like people having a cold
7. Peaky Blinders - Tommy Shelby
8. https://www.bcu.ac.uk/news-events/bcu175 - Brummies who inspire

Its past and present associations

1. associated things that forged or inauthentic
2. by the 19th centuary associated with things that seem expensive but really are of low quality like gilt jewerelly
3. least attractive accent
4. unthrustworthy
5. used to be associated with savoir faire
6. sounds like people having a cold
7. Peaky Blinders - Tommy Shelby
8. https://www.bcu.ac.uk/news-events/bcu175 - Brummies who inspire

Famous people using that dialect

• Martha Howe-Douglas (actress)
• Julie Walters (actress)
• Tom Ross (Football Commentator)

• Ozzy Ozborne (rock musician)
• Adrian Chiles (TV presentor)
• Tonny Lomi (rock musician)
• Geezer Butler (rock musician)
• Bill Ward (rock musician)
• Clare Short (politician)

Phonological characteristic - differences between this variety and standard forms of English.

• ends on a minor note (the tone of the accent)
• usually end sentences in a downbeat or a lower octave
• short "a" sound
• hard "g" sound
• adding "k" sounds to ends of words that end with "g" (nothing, something)
• sounds tend to sit in the upper throat to the back of the mouth - similar to Wells (singy songy)
• "aw" sounds like "daughter", "course", "court", would be pronounced "dawghter", "cawrse", "cawrt"
• The ‘u’ in words like "hut" is often lengthened to become "oo" as in "took" or "uh" like "uhnder".
• The regular vowel ‘I’ is often replaced with ‘oy’ (“ I quite like it” -> “Oy kwoyt loik it”

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Learn the English Birmingham Accent with the Peaky Blinders - phonological characteristics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TltSgaUR-0A

(10 mins long)

phoneme: "any of the perceptually distinct units of sound in a specified language that distinguish one word from another, for example p, b, d, and t in the English words pad, pat, bad, and batany of the perceptually distinct units of sound in a specified language that distinguish one word from another, for example p, b, d, and t in the English words pad, pat, bad, and bat"

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example: the vowel of goat (RP [əʊ]) can be close to [ɑʊ] (so to an RP speaker, goat may sound like "gout")

Lexis and syntax characteristic to that variety.

SLANG - EXAMPLES

Fizzy pop- fizzy drink.Gambol- a forward roll.Garage- Petrol or Gas station.Gully- an alleyway.Island- a roundabout.Mither- to pester someone.Nause- someone who makes a mess.Pop- a word used for squash drinks.ara-a-bit- see you later.Tip-top- a long, fruit flavoured ice lolly.Wench- an affectionate term for a young lady.Yampy- a mad or daft personRound the Wrekin- going the long way round. The Wrekin comes from the Wrekin Hills in nearby Shropshire.

Babby- variation of “baby”Bab- variation of “babe”Bawlin- to shout and scream at someone- “bawlin and shoutin”Cack-handed- doing something in a clumsy way.Cob- a bread roll.Deff off- to ignore someone.Ee-arr- here you are.Ent- it is notMom- unlike the rest of the UK, Brummies call their mothers “Mom” rather than “Mum”. This makes buying Birthday and Mother Day cards highly frustrating in the UK, as almost all cards will have “Mum” on them.

https://owlcation.com/humanities/A-Guide-to-the-Brummie-Accent-and-Slang

Felicity Jones Teaches Conan Brummie Slang

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65xVky__r6U

Ozzy Osbourne Interview

most recognized Brummie speaker

The future of this dialect.

• will die
• will change, evolve. It will be influenced by other new accents, for example MLE

Practise/Quiz

transcribe this text phonetically to the Brummie accent, this is in standard written English:

Birmingham is one of the largest cities in the United Kingdom. It is probably most famous for the Bull Ring and Spaghetti Junction, but it has a lot more to offer. The National Exhibition Centre is a great source of pride to the local inhabitants and steps have been taken in recent years to improve the appearance of the city.

Practise/Quiz

Answer:

Berminggum is wun ov the larges citays in the u-nyted kingdem. It is pRRobebLay moest faymus fer the buLLRRingg and spagettteee jungshun, but ittas aLo-mor to offa. The nashnul eksibishun senta is-a gRRayt saws of pRRoid te the lowkel in-abitents and steps av bin tayken in RResunt yeers to impRRoov the apeeReents ov the citay

this is the way the text would have sounded

Fun Facts

Shakespere wrote his plays in a iambic pentameter way and the actual, original plays would be spoken and are natural, because of their rythmic nature, to the Birmingham and Welsh dialect

Bibliography

https://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/17/messages/821.htmlhttps://www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-country/brummie-accent-wolverhampton-most-popular-16261123 https://www.weipoint.co.uk/all-blog/brummie-people-and-brummie-slang https://grammar.yourdictionary.com/slang/brummie-vs-cockney.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mdfa77EC0M https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/origins-of-the-brummie-accent.33677/ https://www.dialectsarchive.com/england-103 https://brummieaccent.wordpress.com/linguistic-features/ https://www.bcu.ac.uk/news-events/bcu175 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65xVky__r6U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUyuwtRNSkA https://notabrummiebrummie.wordpress.com/linguistic-features/ https://owlcation.com/humanities/A-Guide-to-the-Brummie-Accent-and-Slang https://www.bl.uk/british-accents-and-dialects/articles/accents-and-dialects-of-england#

Thanks!