What does a Black Country accent sound like?

Black Country locals on their accents

[@s.m.4948]

I love the confidence of the black woman who is so proud of her Black Country accent. Two thumbs up for her!

[@bassmanjordan1139]

This is a standard midlands accent, nothing Black Country here imo

[@nigelwright850]

That's very true

[@davidcockayne3381]

There's no such thing as a standard Midlands accent. For one thing East and West Midlands are vastly different. Also north and south, cross the border from Staffordshire into the Black Country and the change is very noticeable. PS: Black Country is a dialect not an accent.

[@Pp-tt7du]

First and second definitely sound like they’re from wolves but just not strong, 3rd doesn’t sound yamyam at all

[@johncamp2567]

As an American with English roots, I have always been intrigued by the diversity of accents over relatively short distances.

[@FullThrottleRacing535]

I am from the UK and i have travelled to every corner of this country. The difference of accent has shocked me too, i am from London and was shocked when i travelled to scotland and wales and people pointed out my southern accent. A lot of them seemed very interested in it but i was also struggling to understand theirs lol.

[@johncamp2567]

@@FullThrottleRacing535 Dear Pope: I have done some acting here in the USA, so I listen to accents and try to maintain my English voice, my Scottish voice, and my Irish. But I am always intrigued by the difference between, say, a Liverpool accent and a Derbyshire accent, two places not all that far away from each other. Fascinating!! Though I don’t know of a similar range of dialects in Scotland, Ireland, or Whales, I would guess there is a similar range there, too. All the best to you!! 👍 (…my English ancestors are from Somerset) -John

[@FullThrottleRacing535]

@@johncamp2567 Lovely comment John, I have visited somerset often as i have family there, i have explored their caves on trips and tried their local cave aged cheese. It's great you have looked into UK dialects so much. Hopefully you can visit here and travel a lot to explore the 'in-between' dialects and learn more about the world. I hope to also do the same in your country and others. Have a good day.

[@johncamp2567]

@@FullThrottleRacing535 SHEPTON-MALLET

[@Candy-Savage]

Even as a born-and-bred Brit I have to agree. Sometimes I find myself in a town only a 30 minute drive away that has a completely different accent to what I'm used to. The USA has many accents too, of course. But it's such massive nation, it makes sense that people in NYC sound different to those in LA. In the UK you sometimes only have to go to the opposite end of town to find a new accent 😅

[@iainrobb2076]

These guys were compltely comprehensible, though. My Dad used to live in the Midlands, and I was in a pub with him once in Halesowen trying to converse with this old guy who had a really strong Black Country accent, and I couldn't understand a word of it. It was all vowels. It didn't even sound like any form of English.

[@simontunnicliffe2107]

Would just like to clarify, West Midlands as I'm from Stoke and that's the Midlands but Birmingham, Dudley, Wolverhampton and the Black Country are West Midlands.

[@iainrobb2076]

@@simontunnicliffe2107 Sure. He stayed in the West Midlands, then.

[@mikepower007]

Rivers of blood racists

[@amosand7476]

There are different varieties of accents even in wolverhampton someone will speak completely different to one end of town to another...although this maybe something to do with class too....someone in Tettenhall could speak completely different to someone from Bilston...but then there are different culture influences too...ive been to America where people thought my accent was cute....then I've been working in other parts of the uk where people will intentionally ask me to pronounce different words so they can gain some humour from it....who knows...be proud what ever your accent you hold.

[@bunnybeetle1304]

I had no idea until I fell for someone with the accent. Now this is my favorite accent because of him. :)

[@stitcha123]

0:10 no one has ever described her accent as ghetto

[@Saesenthessisx]

She sounds like an exact 1 to 1 accent of my fathers mother

[@Saesenthessisx]

she lives down in walsall

[@caroldickens3028]

If they wanted a true black country accent should have gone to Cradley heath or lower Gornal. I'm Wednesbury, black country girl & proud of it I love our accent, go on hols abroad if another local hears you it's brilliant we always have a laugh n giggle even though we strangers it's part of our nature to be friendly

[@jimmysavile69]

I'd say go round Dudley

[@kevinszum5904]

Get down Ocka Bonk.

[@fatboygaming451]

I'm walsall through and through

[@eddyvideostar]

To Carol Dickens: If a true black country is desired -- they should go to New York, United States. Regarding the sacred UK Midlands: Build it, and they will come. Seek, and they shall find. Be careful what they wish for. The wizened are wishing wistfulness upon their organisms. Another dystopia we await with bated breath; whilst being baited with this new generation PC forced acceptance.

[@caroldickens3028]

@@eddyvideostar you are misunderstanding what it means, black country is a region of an area in the west Midlands UK.. We have a very strong dialect that is hard to understand, its known as the black country dialect. We get the name as we were an industrial area in the 17th 18th century onwards where there were lots of factories & foundries pumping out smog that made the brick work etc black. That's the heritage we are talking about. It's nothing to do with race...

[@mperry3878]

I love the Black country accent. It's one of the nicest in the Uk.

[@macca1146]

When i went to work in Cradley Heath when i lived in Tipton in the 70s they couldn't understand a word i said and vice versa, if you look it up you will find that the Black Country accent is the closest you will find to old English.

[@SavoxYT]

Not a single "am ya" or "ay we". Are you sure these people are from Wolverhampton?

[@sprinterofficial8457]

The proper deep Black Country accent is in Dudley area, Birmingham and Wolverhampton are similar but a bit different

[@robgresty1155]

There are very few speakers with a Black Country twang

[@raecattell7680]

Rob Gresty Tommy Mundon, now he was real black country.

[@londonschoolofwigmaking5793]

It's the casual drug deal going on in the background at 0:21 for me.

[@chriscoughlan5221]

aynock and aylie, now thats real black country!

[@johngulliver6151]

Bummie Black country all are so different but undeniably beautiful, and we are only 20 to 15 miles up the road

[@mikeconner3684]

This must not have been too bad of an accent. Sounded perfectly understandable to me.

[@kianisherwood431]

Nah that's just standard west midlands that wore black country

[@paula6439]

@@kianisherwood431 Na it wore….yome right theear……

[@bobbobbing4220]

how do you know thats wolverhampton... someone was dealing drugs in the background

[@oand10]

timestamp?

[@meljohn73]

If yo wa nt ta he ya a proper black country accent goo to dudley not dudlay like the brummies say but dudley which is pronounced dudlee by real dudley folks, an learn ta spake propa.

[@MinecraftPlayer-nw5kq]

‘Zackly, Dudley be the best place to learn a right old Black Country accent

[@danearp]

More of a Duglay if yow ask me. A proper black country Mon adds Gs where they shouldn't be.... I lived in Netherton for nearly 30 years from birth and my dad's side of the family are all from Tipton. I work in Oxford and a bloke I work with is also from netherton. We goo full on black country if ya Dow want um to know what yar on abaart lol

[@meljohn73]

No that's just someone who cor say Dudley properly mate. O and nethertons in Dudley 😃👍

[@ymcaseptember6089]

My fuckin drilla yano. I was born in Dudley and raised in Wolves

[@meljohn73]

@@ymcaseptember6089 yo had a good start in life me mon

[@deborahmoses1512]

I love the accent.

[@SkinnyEMedia]

Just yell SHAAARRRRRROOOOONNNNN and you'll sound like a pure Brummie

[@paulkirton8945]

That may be true but Brummie and Blackcountry are not the same.

[@MickyBane]

As a Spanish native speaker I wonder if you can listen to the difference between Spanish accents (I mean Spanish from Latin America countries) I listen to this and I only can hear English form England.

[@gamungwa]

I do pick out the difference between/among Spanish (Spain) and Spanish (Latino) accents. The differences in the Spanish (Spain) accent are perceivable as well. For instance I make out Catalonians, Valencians, Basque, and Southern (los del sur de España como Sevilla, Córdoba, Málaga, Ceuta, etc) when they speak Castillan/Spanish. Even among the Latino accents, though I don't quite make out the exact countries, there are differences in the Peruvian, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Mexican, Guatemalan, etc accents which could be made out!

[@amosand7476]

I'm from wolverhampton I've been to Spain a few times and can tell the difference between spanish native and Latin American countries for sure.

[@dangerislander]

I can kinda tell the difference. Especially the difference between European Spanish and Domican/Puerto Rican/Cuban Spanish accents lol

[@introgamer4183]

listen to the Spanish from the Dominican Republic...oh gosh..I speak a little bit of Spanish and its very hard to understand to the Spanish from the DR.

[@deborahmoses1512]

A really thick Yam Yam accent sounds to me like they are chewing the words.

[@Da1Dez]

Every time I hear the Wolfie accent I always think of Noddy Holder of Slade fame.

[@guslopez2735]

Strangely enough, people with this accent are the only English people I get along with, maybe because I'm American. I love the Irish and the Scots as well, and yes, I know they're not English because they told me as soon as they could 😂

[@kevanhubbard9673]

I'm from the north east and to be honest I can't tell it apart from the Birmingham accent but I dare say it'd be like them telling a south Durham accent apart from Geordie?

[@JC-jw2kw]

Only the first guy showed a suggestion of a Black Country accent 😅 who decided on the video title?

[@williamwhitcombe6487]

Well I can assure you, that the Black Country accent sounds ABSOLUTELY NOTHING like that. Not even close

[@user-ov2bn3nb7w]

My grandad's accent is hilarious, mine isn't thick at all because i moved about when i was a kid but my grandad's js great, he says oss instead of horse.

[@martinburke362]

Wod abowt mi funky mawped iz that Brumoi!!!

[@drrd4127]

that woman sounds more like Birmingham than what I think of the Black Country

[@jthomas4361]

No, it’s more of a Walsall Accent. A brummie accent is much different

[@keixsy]

Anyone else reading Angella Marsons 'D.I Kim Stone' ?

[@thebonsaiprojectkernow]

Aaah,reminds me of home

[@ShotoFromUA1244]

Pretty sure this is the wolverhampton city centre. I live in Wolverhampton so I can tell you know, if you want a true one, don't come here.

[@barriedouglas7272]

Just what did she say.

[@krisscanlon4051]

Robert Plant accent

[@davidcockayne3381]

It's not an accent, it's a dialect. Try conjugating the verb 'to be' in Black Country: Om/arm, yom/yohm, iz/erz/itz, Wim, them/theym.

[@olivernewton8584]

Sometimes I forget if the words I'm saying are legitimate words. If I go abroad nobody can understand me

[@Terminal805]

They all sound like me

[@charlotte6343]

good old mander centre

[@Bessskar]

The geezer on the thumbnail looks a spitting image of Freddie Star, anyone else think that ?

[@Soulbuddies]

I'm watching this as I am falling hard for a Wolverhampton girl

[@ymcaseptember6089]

What's her name

[@Soulbuddies]

@@ymcaseptember6089 Sorcha

[@fplkingsimon1735]

We’re living the same life

[@karpetcabin]

How have you got on with this Wolverhampton wench my mate?

[@wolvesayewe6110]

That guy in the jacket stinks I’ve saw him on the bus

[@joaquinpv7904]

He nonce

[@paulanderson7796]

0:08 - she is lovely. Very very pretty.

[@Rashy225]

Best accent ever idk what anyone says lmao

[@jacobm6885]

literally the worst accent ever spoken

[@fibonaccisequins4637]

@@jacobm6885 ur mum

[@K3N]

@@jacobm6885you look like a fool to reply to a comment that clearly stated he doesn’t give a shit about your opinion And Iknow your comment is 2 years ago

[@quickninja6546]

My auntie

[@raptorgator]

Wolverhampton...right?

[@paula6439]

Wolverhampton not even in the black country

[@raptorgator]

@@paula6439 No I mean that's where they are in the video

[@karpetcabin]

@@paula6439 the whole of Wolverhampton ay but some of it is my girl.

[@markedwards4764]

Yo cor spake right ...gow ta Dudley port propa black country we have a propa Wesh there

[@traigawdan9891]

This isn't black country accent....it's Birmingham!!!!

[@faithpearlgenied-a5517]

Actually it's Wolvo.

[@user-or6pk6fy5y]

Black country till i die bostin ay it 😂😂😂😂😂👍🦊

[@kianisherwood431]

Om from Tipton ( close to west brom ) and spake propa black country I dunno if its oney me who thinks it but I can here the different variations of the black country accent like if om talking to somebody from wolvo they sound slightly different

[@meljohn73]

Yom right me Mon, if yam from our parts ya con tell the difference, we need to keep our accent alive cus iss dying out.

[@kianisherwood431]

@@meljohn73 yeah I know 🔵⚪🔵⚪

[@caroldickens3028]

Ar ther ay arv a big difference yow con allus tell weer yow from

[@kevinjackson6387]

Yes ya can tell the diff between say Tipton to wolves were I’m from ,but totally diff to brummie ,there def different variations

[@paula6439]

@@kevinjackson6387 Wolverhampton not even classed as Black Country.

[@NickE361]

Asking 'Black Country' folk about their accent? At least go to the Black Country then! Might as well have asked a Brummie 😂

[@karpetcabin]

Some parts of Wolverhampton am in the black country, and the accent is similar all the way up to Cannock.

[@sandy_carpetsthesecond5013]

@@karpetcabin Isn't the West Midlands considered the Black Country? I thought that both Birmingham *and* Wolverhampton were apart of the Black Country.

[@fuzzygarf]

@@sandy_carpetsthesecond5013 No, the whole of the west midlands isnt the black country if thats what you're asking. Birmingham isnt, some parts of wolverhampton are though im pretty sure

[@bashkillszombies]

Can't find any indigenous black country folk to interview at the opening huh Express & Star? I think you need our help dealing with your problem of open borders if you've lost indigenous population to such a degree.

[@kes11]

Buuuuuurrrrrmingggguummm

[@xxconnor4890]

My dads from here

[@karpetcabin]

Yam lucky mate

[@fuckdefed]

They almost sound Brummie and the black woman sounds 100% Brummie. I worked with someone from Wolves who definitely had a Black Country accent though - ‘roll’ was ‘Roh-ull’ and ‘phone’ was ‘pho-un’, they’ve just chosen sound bad examples here.

[@kianisherwood431]

Lese ay black country 🤣

[@thomasconboy4636]

You may adapt a few new words here and there if it works ya

[@edjones9650]

Oliver Hardy 0:22 , Ronnie Corbett 0:36

[@josiesnead2744]

Wolverampton ay in the black country

[@Turrican60]

Wrong - you need to do your homework. Bilston, Wednesfield and parts of Willenhall and Coseley fall within the City's boundaries, so the east and south-east parts of Wolverhampton most definitely are in the Black Country. Also, the shallow coal seams were exploited by opencast mining, roughly in the Monmore Green, Horseley Fields and East Park areas. Think again.

[@bobpritchard6050]

yo cor beat it can ya

[@karpetcabin]

Yow car mate

[@paula6439]

Lol…..no Black Country accents here……

[@paulkirton8945]

I'm from the Blackcountry. Problem is if you refuse to change your accent then no one from outside that small area will have a clue what you're saying.

[@matatmat]

first ones a bit more birmingham second one and third barely have any accent

[@flamev946]

Hell no. First one is no way near Brummie accent

[@Sueperks]

1st one is not brummie at all

[@BeautifulDelights951]

First one is definitely Wolves accent.

[@gordonblues843]

yam yam yam yam yam

[@ShawnGarratt-by6bf]

Tipton accent real black country

[@mikeyswrd]

oh

[@Viator19]

Could be worse. Could have an Essex accent. I live in the West Country and the locals think im living here under witness protection!!

[@ernestgoodmans9562]

That’s Wolverhampton town centre. Wolverhampton isn’t and has never been in the Black Country that’s why they haven’t got a Black Country accent.If you’re going to do a video about the Black Country accent then at least go to the Black Country.

[@andyd2033]

Exactly! People from Wolverhampton are completely disillusioned, the Black Country accent is very different from the Wolverhampton accent.

[@ppppickup]

you aint got a clue what your on about. look up maps of the area when the phrase was coined, late 1800s. collierys and furnaces all around the southern and eastern sides of the town. compare it with places like eastern west bromwich, stone cross friar park which were all famland ! the bullshit of the black country knows no limits

[@ppppickup]

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[@ethannunes8220]

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[@pauljacques9328]

Not even in the Black Country

[@dearfutureme2929]

It’s not even that bad!!

[@danielturner9027]

Ow am ya, om frum the black country.

[@ppppickup]

'any regional accent, i think its a part of... it can be used' what mystical saft nonsense is that last chap on about.

[@geoffreynolds8835]

I really appreciate local accents. As they're now on the way out with Netflix. It's a fact that many children in the UK are getting more and more Americanised. Which ends thousands of years of individuality on our Isles and islands.

[@DJB1985]

Sounds more brummie to me.

[@ymcaseptember6089]

Nahhh fam wolves never gets no recognition uno

[@caroldickens3028]

Cus yow Dow know yow acksents them wor black country try Gornal I cor Maeke them aart

[@ewan_rbx4690]

I’m from Black Country but some old ens are too into the language and a bit of me

[@YoutubeChannel-fm9yz]

That's Brummy as hell.

[@eddiegonzalez1215]

People in England actually judge accents wtf lmao

[@youwot2430]

yeah but we'll take the piss out of anything in existence so its nothing special

[@BourdeoixEterno]

They all literally sound the same

[@sandy_carpetsthesecond5013]

​@@BourdeoixEterno Tell me you've never travelled England without telling me you've never travelled England.

[@fuzzygarf]

@@BourdeoixEterno Youve clearly never been to england lmao

[@derekspitz9225]

"Ghetto"? smh

[@chazoclock]

Yam yams not black country

[@richardwilliams2853]

I was unfortunate enough to live in dudley for a while... my first memory was going to tesco and seeing a que about quarter of a mile long and thinking to myself omg there must be something special going on if people are will to que like that in this weather, after parking I got out my car and could finally see what the huge que was for.. there was a Mcain's van giving away free samples of chips 🤣🤣🤣 although quite friendly black country folk are literally the thickest people on the planet.. fact.

[@wish]

Judging by the number of mispellings of basic words I don't think you're in much position to call anyone thick. Did a black country girl leave you or something?

[@devilsolution9781]

Idk the black lady looked pretty skinny tbf. Ahahaba, i was leaving anyway

[@sandy_carpetsthesecond5013]

Thick? No. Poor? Yeah. Don't get me wrong, the education system in these parts isn't exactly the best in the country, and quite a few cities here are known for having a less-than-adequate education system, but that ain't why people are queing for Mcain's. People are queing for Mcain's because they're one. Hungry. Two, probably don't eat Mcains very often and are probably happy to eat something other than microwavable meals for a change.

[@loveconnection1118]

Also we enjoy a bit of banter and to say we were there, congregate together like birds of a feather... nothing wrong in that. It would have been "Ooh have ya seen the Mccains van giving away free chips bab? Ya berra get dahhn eya" Simple folk, simple pleasures. Not thick... Unique. Stories to tell... Hard workers, Real grit in their heritage.

[@andyd2033]

For starters they’re filming in Wolverhampton which isn’t the Black Country. A lot of people from Wolverhampton do actually think they talk Black Country, but they don’t. There’s a big difference between the Wolverhampton accent and the Black Country accent. The Wolverhampton accent is just so awful

[@weemac4645]

Allah achbar.

[@missbcat6386]

Damn that’s racist 😭

[@thelast7604]

Horrible accent

[@raptorgator]

We know

[@Blue-uu8jf]

Yeah I'm stuck wiv it 😂

[@donkydihck5635]

raptorgator fuck off lad

[@raptorgator]

@@donkydihck5635 😂😂😂😂 a classic

[@ymcaseptember6089]

Donkyd Ihck shut the fuck up blud