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Brummie Accents: Birmingham’s Dialectal Evolution From Saxon Roots to TikTok
Episode 73
Published 6 days, 23 hours ago
Description
Explore the Brummie accent—its non‑rhotic vowels, bottle shift and double negatives—and how industrial migration, Irish and German influence, and social media have reshaped a regional voice. The episode traces the dialect from Mercian origins through the 19th‑century boom and into the digital era, showing how one city’s speech mirrors wider English change.
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