| WORD | IN BRUM... | IN THE BLACK COUNTRY... |
| 30 minutes past | arrparrst | affpass or affpast |
| a long time | fraiges | |
| a poe | guzzunda | |
| a week | wik | |
| a whole one | a wullun | |
| absolutely | tennarf | |
| alcohol | alcowol | |
| Aldridge | Uldridge | |
| all right? | awlroit? | arrat? |
| always | awlwiz | |
| ambulance | nee-narr | ambleance |
| an Off Licence | an outdoor (the pub) | |
| an outside kitchen drain | suff | |
| angry or displeased | gorra cobbon | |
| annoyed | on a line | got a cob on |
| to annoy | to give the pip | |
| apple | napple | |
| aqueduct | ackerdocks | |
| are you ok? | yew awlroit? | yamorrite? |
| are you serious? | cummoffitt | |
| as well as | annawl ("I av annawl") | |
| ask | ax ("oi axed a if erd gew") | |
| being awkward | having your arse in your hand |
|
| baby | babbee or nippa | bab |
| backwards or wrong | arse bakkads |
|
| bad cup of tea | Arbun edge ("tests loik leeves from an Arbun egde!") | |
| Balsall Heath | Ball Salleef | Borsilleef |
| banana | narna | |
| Bartley Reservoir | rezza | |
| been | bin | |
| bend in the road | a wonk | |
| bile | bile | boil |
| Birmingham | Brummigem or Burmingum | Bir-nin-em |
| bleak weather | mizzly | |
| boil | bile | |
| bottle | bockle | bottull |
| boy | bi | boy |
| Brierley Hill | Broilyill | Broily Eel |
| broken | bostidd | bost |
| Brother | aar kid | |
| BSA motorbike | beeza | |
| burnt dinner | "as black as the grate" |
|
| Bus | buzz | buss |
| buy | bi | boy |
| can you not? | carntcha? | corya? |
| canal | cut | |
| cannot | carnt | cor |
| car | mowta | |
| Castle Bromwich | Cassull Brommitch | Cassill Brummich |
| certificate | sertificate or statificate | sustificate |
| cheese | bung ole | chayz |
| Chelmsley Wood | Chemmo | Chemzloy Wud |
| chest trouble | bronical | weezin |
| chimney | chimly or chimdny | chimbley |
| cigarette | fake | |
| cigarette stub | nubbend | |
| cinema | the pictures | blood tub (horror) or fillums |
| coach trip | sharrabang | |
| coat | cowt | cowatt |
| cold | parky | code |
| Coleshill | Colesull | Cozeel |
| Cornwall | Cornmaul | |
| Cotteridge | Cot Ridge | |
| Coventry | Cov | Cuventroy |
| crisps | cripps | |
| crumpets | poiklits | pykelitts |
| crying | blartin or grizzeling | |
| curse | blastidd! ("the blastidd dowarr angle's cum orf aggen") | bluddyell! |
| cuticles & fingernail skin (cut or sore) | backfriend or quick | |
| daft | barmy | yampy |
| did not | daint | day or bay |
| did you? | avya? | ay-ya? |
| didn't you? | daintcha? | day-ya? |
| Digbeth | Digbuff | |
| dinner | tea | |
| dirty | riffy | |
| dismay | gerraway! | |
| do you want to? | jawanna | |
| doesn't it? | doanit? | dowitt? |
| door | dower | doowar |
| drowning | drownding | |
| Dudley | Dugly | Dudloy |
| dustbin | Miskin | |
| ear | earowl | lug ole |
| Edgbaston | Edgbastunn | Idgbastin |
| engine | injinn | |
| England | Inderland | |
| Erdington | Erdintun | |
| espresso (coffee) | express-o | |
| evesham | Eeveeshumm | Eevshum |
| excuse me! | angabout! | dyow moind! |
| extremely good | a roit bosta | |
| face | dial or diol | fizzog |
| to fall over | goo a purler |
|
| fantastic | bostin | |
| far away | lung | |
| fed up | gerron me wick or goat | |
| female | wench or duck or bab | |
| file (hand tool) | file | foil |
| fire | fire | foi-a |
| Five Ways | Foive wayz | Foive Wez |
| floor | flowwa | floa |
| foil | file | foil |
| food | grub | fittle |
| for example | frinstance | |
| for me | fruss ("gew up the bar fruss?") | |
| foyer | foryay | foir |
| friend | alloy | mucker |
| garage | garidge | |
| garden | garding | |
| get off | gerroff | |
| give me | gizza (gizza gew then) | gi-uss |
| give you | giya | gidya |
| go | gew or goo | |
| goes on | guzzon | |
| goodbye | trarr | trarrabit |
| Great Barr | Gratebar | Gret Bore |
| haddock | adduck | addick |
| Hagley | Adly | Agloy |
| Halesowen | Ailzowwing | Ales Owin |
| Hall green | Orlgreen | Orl Groin |
| hands | donnies | honds |
| Handsworth | andswurff | Andzwuff |
| happy or in one's element | in his oil-tot |
|
| Harbourne | Arbun | Arbun |
| hello | oya, worro, wotcha or orrite | Oya |
| her | err ("err sez err aynt gewin") | |
| here you are | ee-arr | |
| hers | ern | errs |
| Highters Heath | Iters Eef | Oiters Eef |
| Hockley | Okli | Ockloy |
| Hodge Hill | Ojill | |
| home | um | howamm |
| horrible | sorribull or voil (vile) |
|
| hospital | hoss pickle | horse pickle |
| how are you? | orrite? | adu? or owamya? |
| husband or dad | olman | owlmon |
| I am | oim | ar bin |
| I am definitely | ennarf | |
| I am not | oyent | ar bay |
| I assume… | spoze | |
| I didn't | daynt | ar bay |
| I won't | wunt | ar wow |
| ice cream | oiscream | arse cream |
| ice lolly | ice loll or icey | sukka |
| in the way / obstruction | in the road |
|
| insults | spaz, mong, derr-brain, spak
or Monny (refers to Monyhull, the 'nuthouse') |
|
| invoice | invice | invoyce |
| irritating cough | tussock | |
| is it not? | aynit? | ayitt? |
| is not | int or taynt | tay or bay |
| it is | tennarf | |
| it is not | tent | |
| it isn't | Irrent | Irrint |
| jail | the clink | |
| jeans | Randerlers | |
| joy | jie ("er babby's a bungle a jie") | |
| kettle | keckle | |
| Kidderminster | kiddy | Kidda |
| Kings Heath | Kings Eeth | Kins Eef |
| Kings Norton | Kings Nurtun | Kins Nortin |
| kitten | kitteng | |
| large | bosta | |
| lawyer | lya | |
| laze or lie around | lollop, lollopping or lollopper | |
| left handed | cack-handed | cag-handed |
| lend | borrowuss | |
| like | loik ("it guz loik a bom, loik") | lyke |
| lilac | lie-lock | |
| line | line | loin |
| listen | ark | |
| little | lickle | litkle |
| loin | line | loin |
| long |
lung | |
| the long way around | "around the Wrekin" |
|
| Longbridge | Lungbridj | |
| to look | a dekko |
|
| lunch | dinna | |
| mayull | mile | |
| makes | meks | |
| man | bloke | ma mon or chap |
| maybe | prapps | |
| method of propulsion (while sitting) used by babies before they can walk | otchin | |
| mine | moin | moyn |
| mis-aligned | skewiff | skewift |
| money | ackers or bung | |
| more | mowa | mowarr |
| Moseley | Mowzli | Moezloy |
| moth | bob howler | |
| mother / mum | mom / the old dutch | ma |
| move | mooavv | |
| my | mi | moi |
| New St. Station | Noo Strate Stayshun | |
| nice | nice | noyce |
| noise | nize ("shurrupp ya nizy article") | |
| noisy | bedlum | |
| not going to | ent | Baygunna |
| not going to have to | ent gnu | Aygunnyarta |
| not keen | intstruck | dow lyakk |
| not possible | cuddna bin | corsyacarnt |
| not sure | oidernoww | |
| nothing | nunk | |
| of course | acawws | |
| ointment | oinkment | |
| Olton | Oltun | Ole Tin |
| on her | onna | |
| on him | onnim | |
| orange | norange | |
| pardon? | yew-wa? | |
| peas | pays | |
| pickled onions | pittled onions | |
| pile | pile | poil |
| pint | pint | point |
| places | plaisizz | |
| point | pint | point |
| problematic | palarver | |
| punch, smack or hit | 'lamp yer one' or 'gi yer fourp'nny one'
|
|
| Quarry bank | Qwarry Bonk | |
| Quinton | Quintunn | Quintin |
| radio | wyliss | Rayjoe |
| rashers (bacon) | rations | |
| Rednal | Rednull | Ridnil |
| right | rite | roit |
| road | rowd | roadd |
| Rover Cars Works | The Orstin | |
| Rubery | Roo-Bree | Ruberry |
| sandals | sangulls | |
| sandwich | a piece or piecy | sammitch or sarny |
| Saturday | Satdee | Satadee |
| sausages | sossy-jizz | |
| Scotland | Scotamaland | |
| Selly Oak | Sellioke | Silly Owack |
| Sheldon | Sheldun | Sheldin |
| Sherbert Fountain | Sherbert Dab or Kay-lie | |
| Shirley | Shorlee | |
| Shut up | shurrupp | shuddup |
| silly | doolally tap or doolally barmy | saft or crackers |
| silly young woman | mare | bint |
| Skeleton | skellington | |
| Small Heath | Smorl Eef | Smorliff |
| Smethwick | Smerrick | |
| Solihull | Sowliull or Slowly Dull | Sew-lee-ull |
| sopping wet | sobbing wet | |
| something | summat | |
| Spangles | Spandles | |
| strong | strung | |
| stumped, at a loss | banjaxed | |
| stupid | arfsoaked | |
| sty or pouk | pouch | |
| submarine | sundberine | |
| surely | fuddeffinit | int arf |
| surprise | bloimy! or gerroutonnit! | arl goo tclent! or gerrout! |
| Sutton Coldfield | Suttan | Suttin Codefoiled |
| sweets | a bag of suck | |
| take | tek | tayk |
| taking no notice | cockin' a deaf 'un | |
| talking | canting | |
| Tamworth | Tammuth | |
| tea | tay | |
| teeth (baby) | tussie pegs | tuttie pegs |
| telephone | the blower | fowann |
| term of endearment | bab | |
| terminus | turminuss | tairminuss |
| that's right | arr | sroit |
| this afternoon | safta | |
| this morning | smornin | smonin |
| thoroughfare (old) | orse rowed | |
| tie | tie | toi |
| tile | tile | toil |
| to be told off | to cop out |
|
| to grab | holt ("gew on, grab holt onit") | |
| to mess | modge | |
| to work things out | sellablige | |
| toil | tile | toil |
| toilet | larpom / bog | tylitt |
| toilet paper | bog roll | |
| tooth | tuff | |
| toothpaste | tuffpaste | |
| toy | tie | toi |
| treacle | treatle | |
| trousers | slacks | trazis |
| Tyseley | Toislee | Toysli |
| umbrella | undbrella | unerbrella |
| under-skirt showing (old) | Charlie's dying | |
| unknown | fingy or wassaname or wotsit | |
| vice | vice | voice |
| vile | vile | voil |
| vinegar | binegar | |
| voice | vice | voice |
| vowel | valve | |
| waistcoat | weskutt | weskit |
| Walsall | Warsall | Wassal |
| was it not? | wernit? | worr it? |
| water | worta | watta |
| Wednesbury | Wensbree | Windzbree |
| weekend | wikkend | |
| were | was | warr |
| weren't | wasn't or wornt | warrn't or wor |
| what time is it? | stoim? | styamm? |
| what's wrong? | smarra? | sup? |
| wife | err | air / mutha |
| wife | owlgel | |
| windows | windders | windas |
| Winson Green | Winsunngreen | Winzin Groin |
| Wolverhampton | Wolveramtun | Wolve-Ram-Tin |
| Worcester | Wusta | |
| worms |
wurrms | werrms |
| wrong | rung | |
| wrote | writ | |
| Yardley | Yargly | Yardloy |
| years | yerrs | |
| yes | Ow-ar | ahr |
| yesterday | yesserdee | |
| you | ya or yam | |
| you cannot | yakkarnt | yo cor |
| yours | yorn | |
Practiss Ya Brummidgem Sayinns.....gew on!
"Stoim?"......."Fyve an twenny pass free"
"Our untle Bert wozzon the buzziz fer yerrs, ackchewally"
"Coppolt on this poi kwik, the babby's cacked in the Moistrow"
"Jernoww ow ta get ta Livery Street mayte?"..."Ow-ar, gew right a moil beffowwa the Red Lyon"
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