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The Black Country dialect is spoken by many people in the Black Country, a region covering most of the four Metropolitan Boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton. [1] The traditional dialect preserves many archaic traits of Early Modern English and even Middle English [ 2 ] and may be unintelligible for outsiders.
As with most cities, the local accent changes relative to the area of the city in question. A common misconception is that everyone in Birmingham speaks the same accent. It could be argued that Brummie is an accent rather than a dialect as opposed to Black Country speech, which is a dialect with unique words and phrases, such as "owamya?"
Black Country accents are stereotyped as indicating "low intelligence", says Dr Esther Asprey, a lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton who focuses on West Midlands dialects.
Having its own unique grammatical, vocabulary, and accent features, AAVE is employed by middle-class Black Americans as the more informal and casual end of a sociolinguistic continuum. However, in formal speaking contexts, speakers tend to switch to more standard English grammar and vocabulary, usually while retaining elements of the vernacular ...
A diversity of earlier Southern dialects once existed: a consequence of the mix of English speakers from the British Isles (including largely English and Scots-Irish immigrants) who migrated to the American South in the 17th and 18th centuries, with particular 19th-century elements also borrowed from the London upper class and enslaved African-Americans.
OPINION: While very few probably know the true origins of Black community staples, it’s always fun to provide a possible history. The post A possible, but unlikely cultural Black staple origin ...
The growing popularity of Black country artists, spurred in part by Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter,” has sparked a conversation around the history of the genre and the past and present racial ...
The Black Country Iron Industry: A Technical History. London: The Iron and Steel Institute. Higgs, L. (2004) A Description of Grammatical Features and Their Variation in the Black Country Dialect Schwabe Verlag Basel. Led Zeppelin (1975). "Black Country Woman", Physical Graffiti. Webster, L. (2012) Lone Wolf: memoirs in the form of short ...