What accent do people in West Midlands have?

The Potteries accent is perhaps the most distinctly ‘northern’ of the West Midlands accents, given that the urban area around Stoke-on-Trent is close to the Cheshire border.

Does 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].

Which part of the UK has the strongest accent?

Geordie. People from Newcastle speak a dialect called Geordie, which is one of the strongest and most distinctive accents in England.

What accents are in the Midlands?

As the word suggests, this is the “centre” of England. Here we can distinguish between East Midlands and West Midlands. The most famous dialect is the one spoken in Birmingham, which is called BRUMMIE.

How did Birmingham get its accent?

According to the PhD thesis of Steve Thorne at the University of Birmingham Department of English, Birmingham English is “a dialectal hybrid of northern, southern, Midlands, Warwickshire, Staffordshire and Worcestershire speech”, also with elements from the languages and dialects of its Asian and Afro-Caribbean …

Where does the Midlands accent come from?

The English written and spoken today owes its origins to a mix of the East Midlands and London dialects. The East Midlands dialect was important because it came from the centre of the country and was intelligible to most people.

What is the weirdest British accent?

The ‘Brummie’ accent is considered to be the ugliest accent in the British Isles, according to a new poll from YouGov. The UK and Ireland has a massive range of accents for such small islands – we have the same amount of dialects as the whole of North America- including Canada, Bermuda and Native American dialects.