Some research shos that Shakespear had an influence on the Birmingham accent, and it is believed that Shakespeare spoke in an accent similar to todays "Brummie" accent.
Immagrationn from other countries also has a major influence on the accent.
Some celebrities that speak with the bummie accent: Jasper Carrot, Ozzy Osbourne, Frank Skinner, Adrian Chilles
Characteristics of the accent is the melodic and sing songy way of speeking.
Some words which belong to the dialect are:
Pop
Another word for a glass of fizzy drinks, do you want a glass of pop
Rock
A children's hard sweet (as in "give us a rock") (In the Black Country it would be "gie us a suck" Suck being a hard sweet)
Snap
Food, a meal, allegedly derived from the act of eating itself (example usage "I'm off to get my snap" equates to "I'm leaving to get my dinner"). May also refer to the tin containing lunch, a "snap tin", as taken down the pit by miners
Scrage
A scratched cut, where skin is sliced off. For example 'I fell over an badly scraged my knee'
Suff
Another word for drain, as in "put it down the suff"
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