Black Country vs Brummie: THE DIFFERENCE

[coolstoryjake]

YOU SOUND THE SAME YOU CUNT

[Szaam]

@coolstoryjake Blah blah blah cunt.

[coolstoryjake]

@Szaam you genuinely do though... your in denial 

[91JHA]

In Birmingham I'm posh. At Uni, I'm the salt of the earth :S

[AlexBarzdo]

Nice one, but... I moved to the Black Country 20 years ago and I can't hope to do the accents or dialects of this region properly. If you've got a good ear you can distinguish between Dudley and Tipton and Gornal (Lower or Upper) or Wednesbury (Where Clarkson's mom-in-law comes from I believe) or Walsall or - dare I say it - Wolverhampton. One problem is that most media emanates from London where they know sod-all. The other problem is - too much prejudice and not enough discrimination! IMHO

[Declanchilds17]

Good video, but I live 2 minutes from stechford and nobody has the accent you put on :)

[Szaam]

@Declanchilds17 Haha, I say in the video to not take it as a definitive example. I like to think it was closer to an actual Brummie accent than the ridiculous versions they do on television though.

[obie1obie2]

About time someone has made a video like this.

[booshpower]

thank you for making this video! pisses me off when people try to do a 'brummie accent' like that guy off the aviva advert who gets 'a bostin deal on his car insurance'.

i think people from the black country area with less broad accents/ don't use the slang, sound more similar to brummies, but you can definitely hear the difference if they're a proper yam yam.

people from cannock also sound black country, and when you get to rugeley, people sound more northern. interesting how it changes

[hereticmagpie]

Timothy Spall is probably to blame for those bad Brummy accents you speak of.

[SuttonBluenose2]

There's loads of different accents in the mids. There's Black Country, Walsall is slightly different-only just, brummy, cov, lichfield, stafford/rugely, indian brummie, pakistani brummie, pakistani black country.

I've got a mix or burton/staffs and brum, just a bit of a twang on certain words. As you say though, proper black country is difficult to understand to an outsider, thankfully I spend lots of time in Wolverhampton to get to terms with it lol.

[Szaam]

@SuttonBluenose2 Of course, but I just making a generalisation for the Black Country. Even within the Black Country it differs, like you say. People from Wolverhampton talk different to people from Walsall and Dudley, yet obviously people from Walsall and Dudley talk slightly different too. Even people from, say, Wednesbury sound different to Walsall people. And when you get to Stafford, they're basically just really watered-down Stokies, aha.

[radderz555]

I LOVE YOUR ACCENT!!!!

[xoxkissablebeautyxox]

So glad you cleared this up for everyone!! Im sick of being called a bloody Brummy!!

Gets right on my nerves!

I found your Brummy accent so funny! Haha depressing! Love ittt!

[XIXownageXIX]

im from Wolverhampton :)

[0bittersweetapathy0]

i don't even care where ur from... ur so gorgeous... :)

[SlappaDeBassMon]

Haha cool video, I love the English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish accents. I'm from New Zealand and we only have one variation in our accent, which is the Southland accent, and even then the only real difference is the way Southlanders roll their R's. You guys have some really cool accents and variations, and I love trying to imitate them even if I'm not usually that successful at it lol.

[Morganissoweird]

I come from Walsall and I want your accent.<3

[pittst67]

Im from New York City (love your T shirt...) and I can hardly understand a word. But then you aught to hear a hard core Brooklyn accent. I saw an interview with Robert Plant and he has almost completely lost his yamyam. (not to mention his musical Mojo).

[Szaam]

@pittst67 Haha, thanks man, I actually bought that shirt from NYC a few years ago. I'd have loved to have gone more into the buroughs of the city and heard some people speak; it's an awesome accent! And it's also awesome that you know the term yam-yam, aha.

[IntrepidMoocher]

I love the Black Country accent. Like everyone else I used to think it was the Brummie accent until some Brummie friends put me right. Can't find any good examples here on YouTube though.

[RizNBeats]

West Midlands FTW <3



[Lofthine]

Fookin pukka mate, i speak exactly the same as you!

Im from dudley, and people tek the piss outta me for how i say round and tha sorta sound! :D

proud to be black country!!!!! (Y)

[ThePyroJay]

@Lofthine "Lofty say brownie"

[TidesOfArcane]

@ThePyroJay Brownie pahaa

[yelyahpowell]

I'm also from Walsall but I don't sound like what a 'yam yam' is meant to sound like xD

[Nommerr]

omg, i talk exactly like you, glad to know i'm not the only one with a Walsall accent:')

[fatlad2010]

finally, someone from Walsall that actually speaks sense

[crabman66606]

Stourbridge and Dudley FTW

[MrLuckyLynch]

Im a brummie, i don't think its that flat :(

Ohh well, foreigners tend to think people from brum are aussies

[PeasantofMercia]

thank you,someone needed to clear that up -from birmingham

[AVFCsi02]

Great video.

[BeccaKatyCat]

i love how you pronounce your 'ly's . i love this accent :) im from Yorkshire & we talk horrid

[Ceskydoll]

grrrrr!! xD

[guyalexanderr]

Haha. Yeah! Uz Midlanders should stick together. I'm a mixture of Brummie an Yam-yam and it tickles me that people trying to do a Brummie accent always do (a sort of) Black Country accent! One bloke that I did forgive was when I was doing a car show in Italy, this Italian that I was talking to asked, "Yo'm a Brummie entcha?" - with an Italian accent thrown in! Hilarious! I'm forwarding your little video onto Jeremy Clarkson - one of my favourite people who always gets it wrong!

[Szaam]

@guyalexanderr Yes! Please do that! Jeremy Clarkson's "impression" is horrendous yet he busts it out with such confidence.

[AngelCrush21]

yes matey!! Thumbs up for the black country ay! :D lol

[Beckyphillips93]

I'm from south of Birmingham nearer Worcestershire , and i'm annoyed that i always get called a yam yam, and when I try to tell them they are two different accents, they don't seem to understand, so i agree with your point fully.

[Kyliemarie23]

FACT! hate being called a brummie! 

[guyalexanderr]

you got the brummy accent spot on man, more people need to realise there's a big difference, it's so annoying.

[littlewonder18]

Haha brilliant. Been trying to explain this to people for years but when I try doing a brummy accent to compare them, I just end up sounding like a depressed version of myself lol. It's great I love our accent! x

[xALii3Nz1]

u from walsall yes kid same here :)

[Dannuboy]

You total Kunt. From a bham true and through.

[Ceskydoll]

i am in love

[tearsicry]

Had to show this to my friends at uni, 'cause they couldn't understand the difference between Walsall and Birmingham.

[lunalovegoodie]

hehe Walsall. i have few mates there.

[Szaam]

@mrlee192 Exactly man. I could never hear it until I went to uni, and to a lesser extent when I went to college. You never realise how little people know of it until you meet people from elsewhere in the country.

[XforeverlongingX]

@Szaam I'm from New York, so both accents are super super heavy to me lol

[alexmac83]

I'm a Brummie who works in West Brom and cannot stand any Brummie/yam yam impression from anyone outside the midlands. Plus Yam Yam is difficult for even me to understand, but definitely less boring than Brummie. Good vid

[TheBlondeBrummy]

@alexmac83 Honestly got to agree with you!