Seen along the main road near to us............

[Parksy]

I have the feeling that it's a put up job, nobody round our end would know that there are 2 S's in Lessons

 

[emmerson]

Funny, but unfair! Wyn Evans has one of the best tenor voices to come out of Wales for a long time. He's a great entertainer too. But I must admit that the adverts drive me wild, and I haven't got a TV!

 

[earlyriser]

agree with emmerson saw wyn evans at leeds castle [kent] last year
best thing out of wales since max boyce

 

[Gabsgrandad]

agree with emmerson saw wyn evans at leeds castle [kent] last year
best thing out of wales since max boyce

Doesn't the M4 come out of Wales? (Joke!)

 

[Gafferbill]

I have the feeling that it's a put up job, nobody round our end would know that there are 2 S's in Lessons

.........I make it 3

 

[emmerson]

agree with emmerson saw wyn evans at leeds castle [kent] last year
best thing out of wales since max boyce

Did he tell the story about his daughter crying in the shop?

 

[Parksy]

I have the feeling that it's a put up job, nobody round our end would know that there are 2 S's in Lessons

.........I make it 3

You can take the boy out of the Black Country.................

 

[Gafferbill]

......my post was meant as a gentle mikey take Steve

To this southerner 'the Black Country' means chocolate and a great accent!

 

[Parksy]

......my post was meant as a gentle mikey take Steve

To this southerner 'the Black Country' means chocolate and a great accent!

I know Bill, I was taking the mickey out of myself for poking fun at the standard of spelling where I live but getting it wrong myself

I'm glad that you like the dialect, although strictly speaking the chocolate is made up the road in a nice part of Birmingham ( we have a dialect but poor spelling, Birmingham only has an accent but great chocolate

)

 

[TonyG]

......my post was meant as a gentle mikey take Steve

To this southerner 'the Black Country' means chocolate and a great accent!

Every one who does not come from the midlands assume that the brummie accent is "black country" sorry folks but it's not...they are two completeley different dilects, we are more posher than them

I'm a Brummie and i cannot understand what the yam yam's say half the time..It's like living on another planet!!!
Chocolate is made in Bournville, which is in the south of Birmingham and certainly not in Yam Yam country

 

[Sproket]

We are more posher than them

I'm a Brummie and i cannot understand what the yam yam's say half the time..It's like living on another planet!!!

 

[Parksy]

Every one who does not come from the midlands assume that the brummie accent is "black country" sorry folks but it's not...they are two completeley different dilects, we are more posher than them

I'm a Brummie and i cannot understand what the yam yam's say half the time..It's like living on another planet!!!
Chocolate is made in Bournville, which is in the south of Birmingham and certainly not in Yam Yam country

Spoken like a true Dummy Brummy

 

[TonyG]

Every one who does not come from the midlands assume that the brummie accent is "black country" sorry folks but it's not...they are two completeley different dilects, we are more posher than them

I'm a Brummie and i cannot understand what the yam yam's say half the time..It's like living on another planet!!!
Chocolate is made in Bournville, which is in the south of Birmingham and certainly not in Yam Yam country

Spoken like a true Dummy Brummy

Timothy Spall AKA Barry from auf wiedersehen pet, has a lot to answer for, every one in the UK thinks that the Wolverhampton and Dudley Building Society is the great bastion of Birmingham....Ummmmm

 

[woodsieboy]

Seems like the poster is a put up job as I am fairly sure I ignored one just the same in Cheltenham last week.

 

[woodsieboy]

Forgot to add I grew up in Stechford,emigrated south in 1969

 

[ProfJohnL]

The dialects of the Midlands are varied and extremely highly developed. Where else can so much be expressed or meant by so few guttural sounds

I write as son of the Black Country, and I have difficulty in understanding Brummies, even though Birmingham is just next door.

Its often the case that in multi-language instruction books, its usually the English which is the the most succinct, yet if it were translated into any of the midland dialects it would be even shorter; probably "Ask the kids"( (English translation)

 

[Brum1]

I know Bill, I was taking the mickey out of myself for poking fun at the standard of spelling where I live but getting it wrong myself

I'm glad that you like the dialect, although strictly speaking the chocolate is made up the road in a nice part of Birmingham ( we have a dialect but poor spelling, Birmingham only has an accent but great chocolate

)

There is no accent in Birmingham, we speak queen's english. Eeveryone in the Queen's head at the end of our road speaks it.

 

[Gafferbill]

To this southerner 'the Black Country' means chocolate and a great accent!

......... as I wrote the above I thought to myself I am going to get corrected here

 

[JohnGriffiths]

We doe have chocolate here in the Black Country. We have "suck" and it comes from Teddy Grays in Dudley.