What accent do the Midlands have?
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What accent do the Midlands have?
The East Midlands is renowned for its distinctive dialects from the Derbyshire drawl to Nottingham’s no-nonsense style of talking. Test your knowledge of Midlands dialect: Ay (or ey) up mi duck – hello there!
What accent do people in West Midlands have?
Brummie dialect
| Birmingham dialect | |
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| Native speakers | 3.7 million people in metro Birmingham (2014) |
| Language family | Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Ingvaeonic Anglo Frisian English British English West Midlands English Birmingham dialect |
| Early forms | Old English Middle English Early Modern English |
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What accent do people in Coventry have?
People from Coventry speak mostly with a Warwickshire accent, which has far more in common with other Midlands accents than with any of the many northern accents.
What is Northamptonshire accent?
In Northamptonshire, crossed by the north–south isogloss, residents of the north of the county have an accent similar to that of Leicestershire and those in the south an accent similar to rural Oxfordshire.
What accent does Nottingham have?
About the speaker
| Title: | Nottingham accent: 80-year-old Frances describes St. Ann’s in the early part of the 20th century |
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| Copyright: | BBC |
| Usage terms | Except as otherwise permitted by your national copyright laws this material may not be copied or distributed further. |
| Held by | British Library |
| Shelfmark: | C900/12606 |
What accent is Herefordshire?
Herefordshire and parts of Worcestershire and Shropshire have a rhotic accent somewhat like the West Country, and in some parts mixing with the Welsh accent, particularly when closer to the English/Welsh border.
What accent does Tommy Shelby have?
Peaky Blinders main man Tommy Shelby is portrayed by Cillian Murphy who expertly changes his accent, from Irish to Brummie to play the iconic gangster. In a new video by the BBC, the actor can be heard speaking with his Irish accent as he details his character.
Does the East Midlands have an accent?
East Midlands accents are generally non-rhotic, instead drawing out their vowels, resulting in the Midlands Drawl, which can to non-natives be mistaken for dry sarcasm. The PRICE vowel has a very far back starting-point, and can be realised as [ɑɪ].
Does Warwickshire have an accent?
Warwickshire also borders the East Midlands and our accent is a hybrid of the sounds from the West and Eastern sides of the old Mercia region.