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RE: Ask a Brummie
May 20, 2015 at 8:57 pm
Had to look up barnet...
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RE: Ask a Brummie
May 20, 2015 at 9:41 pm
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Accent tag!
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Sorry for my scruffy handwriting btw, so amateur
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RE: Ask a Brummie
May 20, 2015 at 9:53 pm
You do say "loike" and "ploice", it's noticeable then
Do you try to make your accent more neutral? I do this with my yorkshire accent because it sounds so stupid, i've done it for so long my natural accent is a neutral one now
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RE: Ask a Brummie
May 20, 2015 at 9:54 pm
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I think my accent has naturally become a little more neutral since I came to uni, as I've been living with all Southern housemates who have made it their lifes' goals to "make him talk civilised"!! LMAO
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RE: Ask a Brummie
May 20, 2015 at 11:40 pm
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Well done, lad!
The only thing that stuck out to me was "Catholic." Seems like you separate the 't' and the 'h,' no?
Also, people from 'Murrica really stress the 'h' in Birmingham. My brother lives in Birmingham, Alabama, and they pronounce it Burr-ming-hamm.
ETA: Holy shit you sound like Karl Pilkington!!!!
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RE: Ask a Brummie
May 21, 2015 at 8:16 am
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most British people say it "Cath-lick" but my family have always said it how I say it. There's an "o" in it and every other language says it with a "t" instead of a "th" haha. "Saint" has always been "san" among my family as well, so I've picked that up too.
And yeah I remember I went to see Black Eyed Peas in concert a few years back and Will.I.Am kept saying "BirmingHAAAM" it amused me.
Do we all sound the same to you? Karl Pilkington is from Manchester, he has a completely different accent to me
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RE: Ask a Brummie
May 22, 2015 at 1:42 am
(May 21, 2015 at 8:16 am)Yeauxleaux Wrote: Do we all sound the same to you? Karl Pilkington is from Manchester, he has a completely different accent to me
I think it's more your inflection and tone than the accent. Now that I think of it the accents aren't really that close.
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RE: Ask a Brummie
May 22, 2015 at 4:11 am
(May 17, 2015 at 10:15 pm)Napoléon Wrote: (May 17, 2015 at 10:14 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: You're a Brummie too Napo? I thought you were American haha
Yeah, there's a couple of us here 
Yes there are. ^_^
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RE: Ask a Brummie
May 22, 2015 at 4:12 am
(May 20, 2015 at 9:53 pm)Saxmoof Wrote: You do say "loike" and "ploice", it's noticeable then
Do you try to make your accent more neutral? I do this with my yorkshire accent because it sounds so stupid, i've done it for so long my natural accent is a neutral one now
My accent is also neutral. My mom is from London and my dad is from Portsmouth so even living in Birmingham most of my life the mishmash of accents has left me without one.
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RE: Ask a Brummie
May 22, 2015 at 5:16 am
Villa or blues?
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