Comments for Talk Like A Brummie Day

Comment on TLABD Dictionary by Adrian Griffin

Adrian Griffin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:54:20 +0000

Spiflicate was often seen in the speech balloons in the Beano, in the sense of beat up or punish. Was published by Thompson of Dundee, with nation-wide circulation, so is not Brummie.

Comment on TLABD Dictionary by Adrian Griffin

Adrian Griffin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:47:59 +0000

In the mid 1960s, brown and mild was very popular. At the Stone in Northfield, it was as popular as Brew XI (the bitter). But it was always M & B’s Sam Brown. With the tied house system back then, an M & B or Ansells pub would not be selling a Watney-Mann product.

Comment on TLABD Dictionary by Adrian Griffin

Adrian Griffin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:40:21 +0000

Until at least the late 1950s, ar was the informal word for yes. With the influx of skiffle, rock and roll, and American pop culture, yeah took over with those who were teenagers in the 1960s.

Comment on TLABD Dictionary by Adrian Griffin

Adrian Griffin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:27:14 +0000

In California prisons, a shank is an improvised knife made by an inmate.

Comment on TLABD Dictionary by Adrian Griffin

Adrian Griffin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:22:38 +0000

The first year forms in KES were called Shells. So this was also a pun on shell. I’m sure it’s just a KES thing.

Comment on TLABD Dictionary by Roy Kibbler

Roy Kibbler — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:15:46 +0000

Entry…………thats what we called them. It’s snickert or ginnel up here in Yorkshire.

Comment on TLABD Dictionary by Tony

Tony — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:49:51 +0000

Yep, ‘Nunk’was used at least in east B’ham just after the 1940 war. I’m 70 now and remember it well. Probably went back before 1900 at least. I’m guessing it vanished about the middle 1950s.
‘Mardy’ – always! ain’t that a real word?

Comment on Accent by Mick Jacks

Mick Jacks — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:02:35 +0000

I’d forgotten about writing on this site as it’s over a year since I did so.I found it today(14/12/11) & very much enjoyed reading the comments .Keep going Owain you have obviously been exposed to Brummie/Black Country accents & have formed an interest in those & many other accents.I’d forgotten about the North/South Wales controversy on T.V. and think that,like Owain,you have to live among these accents to understand them.We are all recieving different versions of our languages nowadays due to better & easier methods of communication –T.V. –comes easily to mind so that when they get it wrong they give everyone else a wrong impression .To most people it doesn’t matter at all but it can be quite irritating.
All the best for Christmas & the New Year. Mick Jacks.

Comment on TLABD Dictionary by brummie ash

brummie ash — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:32:23 +0000

Heard that one alot from Brummie relatives but not sure if used elsewhere too

Comment on TLABD Dictionary by brummie ash

brummie ash — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:30:55 +0000

Agree. Many people get mixed up between “Yam Yam Speak” and Brummie; I once worked in Cradley Heath, 9 or so miles from where i was born in Brum but struggled to understand some people! Honest! One sentance ” E were Yed” confused me but managed to work out from the context it was He was Dead. The Y and D sound was often transferable in medieval engish too!