How often do we hear or read this on a slow news day? “The Brummie accent has been named the least intelligent” “least trustworthy” “least friendly” “most dishonest”? When the media needs a quick stupid stereotype what sort of voice do they pick?
Well us moaning isn’t going to change anything - let’s face it we’re bloody good at whinging and it hasn’t worked yet - so we should celebrate our accent and dialect and encourage everyone to ‘Talk Like a Brummie’ for one day.
Dark as it was over Bill’s Mother’s we throughly enjoyed Talk Like A Brummie Day 2007 - we’ll see if it’s had any effect at all, or whether we’ll need to do it all again in 2008.
Thanks to everyone who took part, or even took an interest - if you’re interested in the Brummie dialect, please pop over to www.talklikeabrummie.co.uk where we’re going to try to build a wikipedia-style Brummie dictionary.
EDIT, the wiki, dictionary thing is under heavy spam attack, so if you think of any new words please add them here - until we get sorted.
