Terry_dactyl
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I think it does to the untrained ear.
Do people really think we are Brummies? (1 Viewer)
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clint van damme
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you sure that was an evening game?
baldy
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If it was the 89/90 season yeah....in the cup (I remember it being on the official highlights video for that season)
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westcountry_skyblue
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That's the one sat behind the goal,Just looked 4/11/89 league cup game.
clint van damme
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I was at a Saturday game in the 80s which we won 1-0 and Cyrille scored the winner.
Even though it was 1-0 we battered them and should have scored more.
There fans were singing - what the fuck is going on?!
Even though it was 1-0 we battered them and should have scored more.
There fans were singing - what the fuck is going on?!
Kneeza
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I was dragged up in Longford in the 50s and sixties, and seriously contest any suggestion that anyone spoke with anything approaching a brum accent.
The crossover was more with the Nuneaton/Bedworth/Hinckley/Atherstone lot - most of whom seemed to work in North Cov at the time, and definitely added the E. Mids twang to the mix.
The crossover was more with the Nuneaton/Bedworth/Hinckley/Atherstone lot - most of whom seemed to work in North Cov at the time, and definitely added the E. Mids twang to the mix.
Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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Think it depends how far away you go. No-one from the Midlands has ever mistaken me for a Brummie, but I have had someone from Newcastle area and from Ireland and Scotland ask, although one of those did say 'Midlands' rather than Birmingham. In America they thought I was Canadian - I think they expect all Brits to either sound like the Queen or Ray Winstone/a Dickens character.
The thing is the really exaggerated accent most people think of is Wolverhampton/Black Country and Brummie isn't quite as harsh.
I think ours is a mix of East/West Mids and Oxfordshire. Apart from batches of course - that is ours and ours alone.
The thing is the really exaggerated accent most people think of is Wolverhampton/Black Country and Brummie isn't quite as harsh.
I think ours is a mix of East/West Mids and Oxfordshire. Apart from batches of course - that is ours and ours alone.
hill83
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It isn’t. They say batch in the Wirral in Liverpool too apparently.
Similar location to where we stole our “speak with an accent exceedingly rare” song from.
Nick
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I petition we start claiming "la" after everything as a Coventry thing, la.
skybluelee
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Speaking as a lifelong City fan who has lived away from the area from the age of 4, I I find the Coventry accent undistinguishable from a Leicester accent. It’s clearly different from a brummie one however.
Nick
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No, Leicestor and Derbeh are different.
Covkid1968#
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Wirral.... plassie scousers!!! Nobody in Liverpool calls it a batch.
Kneeza
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Interesting observation (re. Oxon). They do say that the 'old' Cov accent was very similar to the cotswolds/Glaws/Oxon sort of rural brogue.
The American thing is a strange one though. I used to work about four or five weeks of the year in Dearborn (Detroit area). Everyone there reckoned I must be aussie.
Accents are great!
Sky Blue Harry H
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Are you seriously expecting people to believe that the Scousers have had things stolen from them that they didn't steal in the first place!
Good luck with that argument!!! (I always awaited the 'pickpockets are operating in the crowd' announcement at Highfield Road, most times at Highfield Road -when it was standing, versus the Scousers) Although that last bit is true, I don't really have an issue with any cities/regions. You get good and bad, wherever.
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The Great Eastern
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Thought a batch in Merseyland was a Barm Cake ?
Covkid1968#
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Yeah a lot do.... Had a lovely sausage barn cake at Goodson on New Year’s Day....wasn’t sure what I’d get until it was handed to me
Sick Boy
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Weirdly it also has elements of a southern accent as well with the glottal stop
