British Jellies: What is a "brummie" accent?

I saw that, too. What is it??!!

A person from Birmingham has a Brummie accent.

Jamie Oliver doesn’t have a brummie accent.

This is a Brummie accent

Jamie Oliver is from Essex but is accused of putting on a “Mockney” accent. Sort of bunged on Cockney.

@Bellatrix
John Oliver, not Jamie Oliver.
John Oliver is a British comedian who has worked in the US for the last six years.

Here is a recent clip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pOiOhxujsE

SRM

Yes, I know who he is. I’ve seen some of his work. Sorry read Jamie. John Oliver does have a Birmingham accent but it’s a polished version. I can pick it but the Brummie accent is quite a bit stronger than that normally.

What is SRM?

All British accents sound the same to Americans

SRM is SRMorgan’s initials.

@jaykay – if you look at that site I posted, you can click on different places and listen to different accents. They can be different just a few miles down the road. I can’t believe you think we all sound the same.

@jaytkay: Please don’t include me in your generalization about Americans and their ability to hear the subtleties in accents, British or others.

@gailcalled 99.9% of us don’t have your ear

^^Are you sure about that statistic? Might it be 98.2% or 71.3%

My daughter can talk to an American and tell what state they are from. She is moving to Scotland. I wonder how soon she will get it there.
My MIL is first generation American and can tell if she is talking to someone from her parents neighborhood in Scotland. She scared a salesman that was working for her company once. Almost gave him his address!

All British accents do not sound the same to Americans. Perhaps to some Americans. Definitely not to others. Criminy.

My Mom and I have been watching a series on Netflix called Monarch of the Glen(TV_series), in which we are convinced that none of the actors, except for the guy who plays Golly, is actually Scottish. Which was kind of sad, but fine, because we love all of your U.K. accents (from Cockney to the Queen and beyond)

I recently saw a very funny clip on You Tube in which 2 poor Scottish men were doing battle with the Automated Elevator Woman The word eleven is now a running joke at our house.

Which was not unlike Fran Drescher (from Queens, New York, USA) trying to work with Siri on her phone.

I love the differences between English (including American and Aussie and Kiwi and South African etc. ) accents. If anyone is interested there was a great show, about this subject, called The Story of English

I love all of the accents of the UK (including Scotland and Wales) and Ireland and Australia and New Zealand and South Africa and parts of Candada, and even some of the boring accents of the U.S.

My favorites are accents are by Paul McCartney, Alan Rickman, Christopher Plummer, Patrick Stewart and currenty, Johnny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch as well as Anthony Daniels (C3PO from Star Wars) and Sebastian Cabot (Mr. French from Family Affair as well as Bagheera from Jungle Book, and the announcer from Winnie the Pooh)

I can tell what state a person is from, and even what part of that state. In Australia I mean.

Yeah, it refers to someone from Birmingham…no emphasis on the ham, like the Alabama version.
It’s a funny little accent, often derided as sounding dumb, my favourite being Timothy Spall as Barry in Auf Wiedersehen Pet.

For the record, there ain’t no way Americans are going to think my accent sounds like your typical Brit one…why nor, nee way like.

I am an amateur student of British accents. As people have said a Brummie is from Birmingham and the accent is kind of flat and not very sing-song.

I have a dear friend in Birmingham.

When I try to copy her accent, I kind of have to move my mouth like I have a Saltine cracker in my cheek. Lots of “F” sounds – with = “wif”, for example. “What are you thinking?” = “Wot ah yew finkin’?”

“Wud yow loike to watch some telloi”
Would you like to watch some television.

That’s more like it @ucme. I can’t do a Brummie accent.

I coulda done impressions, actually that’s how Lenny Henry started a slightly famous Brummie, Jasper Carrott too…no one outside of Britain has probably ever heard of them.

My cat’s called Jasper (Carrotcat). He’s a red burmese. He doesn’t speak with a Birmingham accent though. He has a French accent. I think my favourite sketch was the ‘mole’ sketch.

I saw Lennie Henry over here a few years ago. Very funny man.

Ha, I had a feeling you’d know who they were :)
Pointless but interesting factoid: Jasper Carrott’s daughter is Lucy Davis who starred in the original & best version of The Office, also appeared in Shaun of the Dead…good eh?

Aren’t the members of Iron Maiden and Judas Priest all from the Birmingham area?

I spent many hours under the blankets with a transistor radio listening to Jasper Carrot skits on Piccadilly Radio with James Stannage.

Bruce Dickenson is from Nottinghamshire, don’t know about the other band members.
Course, there’s good old Ozzy Osborne, a true Brummie.

New Wave of British Heavy Metal Brummie bands

I prefer Paul Di’Anno anyway. And he’s from London. So I’m totally off-base with Maiden. Priest is definitely Brummie.

The Mole in a Birmingham accent.

Eighties boy band & general cheese monkeys Duran Duran…now there’s some Brummie muzak :/
Arthur Conan Doyle hailed from Birmingham & Tolkien was raised there, although born in S Africa.

@ucme You did not just diss Duran Duran.

@glacial Does that make me one of those Wild Boys then…we never lose it :)

@ucme I can’t believe you didn’t take the opportunity to make a Girls on Film reference. :P

@glacial That’s because Wild Boys is actually quite a decent song, deserved a mention I thought.

It is someone from Birmingham. Or Berrmingham!

I got the chance to go to London, once. My luggage went to Birmingham.

@ucme Do you sound like the farmers in the book and TV series All Creatures Great and Small? Summat talls me ye moit. Do you take your dog to a vitnery?

@Kardamom No, thems yokels them is!
Ar sund mar like this, if ya nar wot am tarkin aboot bonny lass.

So, @ucme if I’m reading this correctly, your tongue never actually comes in contact with your hard pallette?

@ucme From that description, it sounds more like Scottish : )

He’s way the hell up there, almost to The Wall.

It doesn’t quite do it justice when written down, maybe I shoulda recorded my accent on that internet recording device thingie, definitely not Scottish, but yeah, quite unique.

Do a Youtube video!

Just ganna stand there cracking gags & tark aboot mesell, worra lorra fun that soonds.

You can use that audioboo thing too or audacity. Would love to hear you speak.

I know I’d like to hear him!

C’mon, give us your best Hamlet.

Hee hee, I pretty much guarantee it’d be me giggling like a bloody schoolgirl, take 327…i’m immature like that, plus, I despise the sound of my own voice.

Skype? Google hangout?

@ucme Here we are awaiting a wonderful British accent. Don’t be shy. We are amused by just about anything British, and you sound delightful.

I just signed up with Audioboo, but I gotta run now, be back later with a recording…builds dramatic anticipation just for the lulz :D

I don’t think that amused was the word I was looking for. Maybe thrilled, delighted, lucky and grateful. We come from your stock, but our words have become flattened and dulled. I can’t wait to hear what you (and possibly my British ancestors) sound(ed) like. : )

http://audioboo.fm/boos/1448403-tsk-women
Whoever chooses to listen in, decide for yourself if I was joking or not…;-}

We can tell her where to find the posts about her cooking :D Thanks @ucme. It was lovely to hear your voice and that great accent.

@ucme It speaks!!

With the Yanks and that…

Ha ha ha ha ha….

That’s an awesome accent. I don’t think I’ve ever heard one quite like it.

Oh – my Geordie boy!

Cheers girls, yeah I decided to make up some funny scenario because I knew if I just spoke all normal like, i’d have felt like a tit & just laughed right through it.
The wife wasn’t even at home, I was speaking to no one…academy award nomination in the post. Speaking of her, she’s such a good sport & takes it all in her stride as she knows i’m just larking about, bless her little socks, I wuv her very much…just not her cooking XD

Well, that’s what the Chippie is for.

It was a nice giggle first thing in the morning. Thanks @ucme ^_^

Chippie? Wow, you do know your Britishisms dontcha?
You’re more than welcome @Seek_Kolinahr…I wonder if she’s one of the “pretty girls” here…hmmm :)

Don’t know if i’m looking forward to @Kardamom‘s reaction, I mean, I can’t compete with Alan Rickman’s voice…who can? :)
Just want to apologise to the OP for the thread derail, it just kinda fell that way.

I cannot tell one accent from another. I was watching American Idol last season when my son was passing through the room. I said “Hey, I didn’t know that Keith Urban was British” my son was like “mom, that’s an Australian accent.” :0/ My bad!

There was one time I frakked that up. But the kid was being disingenuous. I said “I don’t want to guess incorrectly, where are you from?” and he goes “No, guess!” I said “OK… I’m nowhere near 100%, but Oz.”

He goes “No! How dare you! I’m English!”

I called bullshit.

Then he says “Well, I’m English but I live in Spain with Australian room-mates.”

So he was all kinds of screwed up in his accent.

@ucme I’m going a little weak in the knees just now! Great voice/accent! You sound very similar to an actor on this Scottish TV series I’ve been watching called Monarch of the Glen. The character, named Duncan, is played by actor Hamish Clark. Have you ever heard of him?

Well I have now, heard of the series, but never watched it.
So you detect a trace of Scottish in my accent then? Interesting, I’m very close geographically, so maybe some trace filtered through the generations…cheers by the way, you’re very sweet :)

@ucme Here is a Clip of Hamish Clark from a TV commercial. : )