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Old 04-13-2014, 02:25 PM
 
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Besides Ozzy, who are some other famous Brummies among us?
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Old 04-13-2014, 02:55 PM
 
Location: SW France
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J.R.R. Tolkein.
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Old 04-13-2014, 03:43 PM
 
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J.R.R. Tolkein.
It would neat to hear him speaking, since he has been dead 40 years.
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Old 04-13-2014, 03:47 PM
 
Location: SW France
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True.

No.

There are no famous living Brummies.
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Old 04-13-2014, 03:49 PM
 
Location: Next stop Antarctica
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I think its awful.

I don't like corny English accents. I prefer non slang southern accents.
Dialects are not slang and southerners have their own different dialects.
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Old 04-13-2014, 05:03 PM
 
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Old 04-13-2014, 06:08 PM
 
Location: Leeds, UK
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I don't like it at all - one of my least favourite regional accents, alongside Cockney and Geordie.

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Dialects are not slang and southerners have their own different dialects.
Ignore him - he's just a naive young lad with little experience.

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Besides Ozzy, who are some other famous Brummies among us?
The band Duran Duran was formed in Birmingham..
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Old 04-14-2014, 02:48 AM
 
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The Brummie stress is a sample of a local stress of English. It is by all account not the only stress of the West Midlands, in spite of the fact that the term Brummie is regularly wrongly utilized within alluding to all stresses of the It is particularly dissimilar from the customary stress of the adjoining Black Country, in spite of the fact that current populace versatility has had a tendency to obscure the distinction. Region.
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Old 04-14-2014, 03:01 AM
 
Location: SW France
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The Brummie stress is a sample of a local stress of English. It is by all account not the only stress of the West Midlands, in spite of the fact that the term Brummie is regularly wrongly utilized within alluding to all stresses of the It is particularly dissimilar from the customary stress of the adjoining Black Country, in spite of the fact that current populace versatility has had a tendency to obscure the distinction. Region.

Do you mind putting that into English?
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Old 04-14-2014, 04:38 AM
 
Location: Great Britain
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Besides Ozzy, who are some other famous Brummies among us?
Couple of other famous people with links to Birmingham

List of people from Birmingham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Steve Winwood who had 80's hits with songs such as 'Higher Love' and 'Valerie' was born and raised in Birmingham.

Steve Winwood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia





The American writer Washington Irvine who wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow', 'Rip van Winkle' and other such famous works also spent many years in Birmingham.

Washington Irving - Birmingham City Council

British Composer Stanley Myers was also from Birmingham, his best known work being "Cavatina" (1970), an evocative guitar piece that served as the signature theme for Michael Cimino's 1978 film 'The Deer Hunter'.

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