Slang from Birmingham and the Black Country! (With a Peaky Blinder!)

Welcome back to the West Midlands! Today, I'll teach you some common slang terms heard in Birmingham and The Black Country!
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[@smashingenglish]

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[@superlinux]

I am a Palestinian. I enjoy seeing different types of UK slang. This kind of slang very much reminds me of the football hooligans. I just don't know why. it could be the the bullying attitude in how it sounds. :) thanks.

[@Frank-dr7dr]

Grew up in Brum and moved to Canada spent 50 years working, using a radio for communications. Now understand why everyone instantly knew who I was when I came on.

[@JasonXiong]

Interesting, as a Chinese, I didn't expect that one day I would watch a video teaching Burminghan (hope I got the word right) accent with a big smile on my face. Brilliant work, thanks a lot!

[@AndrewSpesivtsev]

You're a brilliant actress! Why shouldn't you play a role in Peaky Blinders? 😁

[@Gandung_007]

LoL, is that a compliment or a complain XD

[@bekzhanqazanbai9755]

Bostin' actress*

[@abdulkerimkoca1786]

I concur with him ma'am you just should

[@deineoma1327]

oy bruv hows going because she a flippin ma´am

[@hunadilentswana6962]

She should be Tommy younger sis

[@takumi2394]

Fook she's bloody amazing

[@chetansuryavanshi5447]

Ye 'fook, ' kya hota hai???

[@avisf]

@@chetansuryavanshi5447 nhi degi is liye fook rha hai

[@chetansuryavanshi5447]

@@avisf hahaha

[@jenniferlawrence944]

​@@avisfmujhe degi...iska pura naam kya h

[@chesterdonnelly1212]

Yeah she looks great. She's given me a cob on.

[@rishabhsingh4070]

Before watching peaky blinders I used to say "hey man" but now "oi mate"

[@jamieforrester2857]

She's got the brummie accent to a T but not the black country accent, the black country accent varies in different areas and talk a lot quicker because we abbreviate our words as small as possible E.G. you =yo,been=bin,laughing =loffin,I'm not=i'ay ECT,those slightly little words help talk quicker and we don't drone our words out it's short and sharp,

[@TerencePetersenAjbro]

And simplify grammar: ar goo, yow goo, we goo, he guz/she guz. Also: yow am as in "yome saft" = you are stupid.

[@lavenderfae8585]

Ar er ay quite gorrus roight az a? Er ay bad though ter b fair bab 😄

[@nickgov66]

People in the Gornal area of the Black Country can tell if you are from Upper or Lower Gornal or Gornal Wood.

[@jonnyd802]

yeh its like people from dudley drag their words.black country is a dialect.and your right we seem to shorten words.as though were speaking like people do in text messages.

[@barrycooper9451]

@@nickgov66 thas bin a time ago.

[@lavenderfae8585]

Ah but do ya know why we'm called 'Yam yams'? It's because we say yam and not you are. So for example 'You are going, aren't you?' becomes 'Yam gewin, ay ya?' 😄👍

[@GabrielRodriguesYT]

You're very creative and fun. Underrated channel and great job!

[@ignaciod.cordoba5793]

This is really useful, thank you so much 👏🏻😁

[@T16MGJ]

Great stuff Laura. My first experience of the broad Brummie/Black Country accent was a bit of a shock. A long time ago, eleven year old Cockney/London born me stepped off the train at Birmingham New Street. That then was a very "Black" Station from all the coal fired steam Train action. Railway enthusiast me, I got talking to the group of young Lads Train Spotting at the end of the platform. I told them I wanted to see a Coronation Class Locomotive in action, ideally at speed. I got the following reply from one of the lads which went something like this. "If yow wanna to see the sem-eyes at speed you wanna go to Tammoth and see the Middoiy Scut." Huh? Roughly translated it goes like this. If you want to see the semi-streamlined at speed you want to go to Tamworth and see the Mid-day Scot. For about 1/3d ( six pence decimal ~ what's inflation Dad? ) for a return ticket to Tamworth I did get to see that train at speed with the magnificent Coronation Class Locomotive 46237 "City of Bristol" on the Northbound Scot. I could not believe a steam train could go that fast. Any train for that matter. Worth every penny. When the family moved from London to Gloucester ( locally Glostirr ) I was barely nine years old. My first day at Junior school had all the local lads forming a circle around me in the playground getting me to speak. None had heard Cockney before. Remember there was only one TV Channel. The BBC and few households had a TV. All Radio/TV was BBC only all with "refined" RP accents unlike today and recent decades. Always had a keen interest in accents. One of the reasons my all time favourite entertainer was the late, great Peter Sellers. He could effortlessly produce a convincing accent from just about anywhere in the World. As any of his many films, particularly the early monochrome ones, will confirm. He could do the lot! His speciality being his Michael Caine impression. A short clip is on KZbin if you search, Not many people know that .. ... 😉

[@vipodcasting]

You’re really good, glad I discovered you. Not just clever with the accent but, knowledgable around what makes an accent. Saw one of your other videos about the soft T in the Birmingham accent and I think that comes from the Irish influence in Brum. And a definite phrase to add to the ones you have sited here: Oo, Aven’t you grown! Exclaimed by relatives whether they’ve not seen you for 10 years or 10 days.

[@MH-hy2ot]

Seriously impressive video! Really enjoyed it

[@princessel338]

Absolutely amazing!

[@paz335]

That was great, made me a little familiar with other accents and try to open my ear. Thanks a lot!

[@angowT]

I'm a Brummie & my gran was always telling me to; clean my donnies, wash my fizzog and keep out the 'orse rowd. Oh and then we'd get the buzz into town.

[@sebstrong9815]

Whilst doing gambols on the way to Rezza?

[@not_xeon]

okie now be a good lad and tell me what that means

[@sebstrong9815]

@@not_xeon which one would you like translating?

[@angowT]

@@not_xeon donnies= hand Fizzog= face Orse road=road Buzz= bus Rezza= Reservoir ( hope that's right Seb) Gambols= somersaults

[@not_xeon]

@@angowT wow this is some difficult Shit man

[@dustyramone]

Noddy Holder speaks like that too

[@taniadeblas1060]

😍love your videos, continue like this :))

[@mrheer18]

In Cov we call a Cob a batch. I think we’re the only place in the UK to use that

[@hugorndj9220]

Damn im going to be a French who talk with the Birmingham accent ! And good job for your videos!

[@RuyBar77]

Blimey! You are spectacular. The best Ive ever seen, period.

[@acaaca9611]

1:53 me(thai) : yumyum instant noodles

[@OwenRapeepatCh]

มาม่า

[@jovmil9175]

nope its mama ! :)) right จิรเมธ อริยกุล จิรเมธ อริยกุล !?!?

[@bakr3143]

Honestly, one of the best page.. in love with everything your appearance, the way how you speak 😍😅.. cheers from Saudi Arabia

[@dukecrocus8364]

When I went back to the UK, from OZ, I went to a conference in Birmingham. At the breakfast café the girl said... "what tible noomber aarh you at ? " ... soo brummie !!

[@jahnarhouma7782]

Amazing !! Thanks

[@dragos_irl]

I'm a Dutchy and when i speak english i speak with a standard uk accent. I really love to learn this accent in replacement 😎

[@slightlyconfused876]

If, by standard, you mean R.P., it is a fabricated accent not a real one. Interesting that the Birmingham accent is despised by non Birmingham people in the UK, but foreigners seem to like it.

[@butchersealerlife_ukni8428]

Maybe because of the way they delivered the word like a strict way speaking is kinda strong approach like a boss 😊 sorry for my english

[@timothyduggan2263]

Do people pass you 'pon di left hand side?

[@Dany-qb2ry]

I really like your lessons, you are very funny 😅thanks for your lessons👏 greetings from Italy 👋

[@ildarmingazov2304]

It so nice that i find your video, it is my cup of tea :)

[@ozhalljr]

Very well produced. love the cap. So cute!

[@andreasj2429]

I could listen to it for hours.

[@melissaj1965]

I have an interest in Birmingham cos of my great grandparents who emigrated to Australia 100 years ago with two kids. My grandmother was born in Australia. Would love to go & visit the rellos. May have left my run too late. Love the videos. Keep up the good work!

[@nickgov66]

In Brum you visit the "rellies", not "rellos".

[@Gifted_Sayan]

I like your videos so much. Never stop uploading ma'am.

[@aymanghazali8738]

please don't stop making slang videos, U really cast light on the shadows ,only god knows how you help us ,carry on, love u👍

[@fa11enredangel51]

Oh god I just realized the word “bussin” came from “bostin’” 😭😭😭

[@ranjansarkar08]

W I C K E D . . . That Was Bloody Brilliant . . . Great Video . . . Cheers . . .

[@sanket_xxo_956]

Heyyy Ur doin astonishing... please keep some patience...soon yo channel will be on trending.... 🖤 Now I'm wondering why I don't see this channel earlier... 🖤🖤

[@MrJoeyeast]

thank you enjoyed it very much here in America

[@hedleyclive]

I recall back in the mid 60's working at the old Velocette motorcycle in Brum. One day a group of us "youths" were talking, inevitably, about wimmen. We asked one of the older workers, Arthur Mo', how we would know when we were in love. In full lugubrious Brummie Arthur replied, " Yow'l know lads, being in luv is loik havin' a thousan' sparra's fly out of yer arse..." No answer to that is there?

[@paulmorris6414]

What a brilliant line! 🤣

[@user-gc7rx3nc7o]

You're absolutely outstanding!

[@Dostoprimetschatjeln]

I love your slang! I'm from Eastgermany living in Westgermany! Slangs enaught!

[@mickmail1111]

I used to work in Telford (Shropshire) and they use "Round the Wrekin" Its the name of a local hill/peak (and local council area) that you have to go around as its impossible to drive over!! Probably where the expression originates?

[@MegaBYSON]

i don't know who you are but that intro... im in luv

[@najibsagrajos7590]

Wow i travel to england with my spirit . Good job

[@roeljinayon7206]

♥️♥️♥️its hard to understand UK accent..bt i loved it..TARRABIT..😄

[@manishbaruaa6688]

If ever I would learn to speak in an accent, in particular, it is going to be Birmingham. That's the magic of this video. Pure Peaky Blinders flavour.

[@hunadilentswana6962]

I love the accent with all my heart

[@riadhbakhti108]

you're great, thank you so much

[@benghiz9905]

You're a cool teacher!

[@TerencePetersenAjbro]

ta very much! Haven't heard my home dialect of Black Country since I left the UK in 1984. I grew up in Oldbury/Dudley. I can still speak Black Country, but my vocabulary is over 60 years out of date. Bostin video our kid!

[@pavitashergill8308]

How you doing mucker. I'm from West brom.

[@TerencePetersenAjbro]

@@pavitashergill8308 Very well thanks, living in Sweden today, before that 30+ years in Denmark. I have fond memories of visiting West Brom market with my mum back in the 60-70s. Especially buying pork scratchins.

[@pavitashergill8308]

@@TerencePetersenAjbro the good old days mate. Take care our kid. 🙋‍♂️👌👍

[@dominicwood4508]

I have had the privilege to know the massive difference between Birmingham and the Black Country, lots in the UK don’t.

[@jenniferdean2095]

It’s like I’m back in my Hagley road flat now thinking about Tesco’s and whether to get a steak bake or sausage roll from Greg’s.

[@mikeslattery7176]

Sod the accents shes gorgeous !

[@Sam-dk2dp]

Not only did i enjoy it, but i freaking loved it ♥🤣

[@michaelvitale4029]

Hilarious. Love it

[@Lichfeldian--Suttonian]

I have loads of fun with my two (not so now) little Hampshire Hogs, about many words that I use compared to what they use, in particular: Cobs, pop, outdoor, pikelets, bath (not barth!), bostin, etc. Bless them, they just don't gerrit! Long live the West Midlands accents and dialects! Bostin!

[@traceyhedges6792]

Im a Hampshire hog born in Southampton but nowadays I live in Birmingham love the city of Birmingham

[@evorock]

@@traceyhedges6792 ohhh dear a scummer eh lol Still you escaped, and I'm sure Brum is far better than that place down the M27 😉🤣🤣🤣

[@zafarali6557]

Dammnn was looking for some stand-up British comedies.. However i figured you out nd my research has been finished now.

[@freeenglishgrammarproject5615]

I love this video !!!

[@AspieBaka]

Thank you from Brazil! Now i can be a wild peaky blinder speaking idioms who no one understand while a walk in slow motion eating a cob and drinking pop (bad combination). Thank you again and tararabit.

[@AnaBeatriz-ce1bd]

aê mais um br fã de Peaky fookin' Blinders!!!!

[@DanJamesJames]

Try this link kzbin.info/www/bejne/jIe3lYWoo7R8ia8

[@nhat9960]

Big fan of you

[@mariaisabelalmao2058]

bloody lovely!

[@BookMesh]

Bostin show👏🏻💯

[@bozimsaho5590]

have to ask, is it difficult to force the accent (i know you're from round here). after being trained (i presume) to use RP

[@mohammadmuzzammil7150]

You're just Amazing !!!

[@bangtamax]

The best channel i have ever found so far...hahahha

[@BostonBobby1961]

David Bowie had a great song about this. Called Black Country Rock. 1970

[@katemarkham1366]

I'm from Dudley she smoshed it , much love ❤

[@nicolaj665]

My other half is from Westbromwich, hence we have two Westbrom supporters in my house. I'm from Yorkshire. We have some of the same slang words as you. We also say, 'babby', ' stop clarting around', 'bust' for broken, 'he's got a cob on' but we call a cob a ' bread cake'. What about scone. Do you say 'scone' or 'scon'. I'm from Hull and we say 'scone' there. Whenever we go over to Westbrom I always feel out of place there with my accent. The black country accent is very ' sing songy'. I think the Yorkshire accent is a lot more flat. 😊

[@melikovfazli7052]

That was exactly what i wanted😂

[@arbazalvi8348]

this is an amazing videaaww

[@goswamigeeta]

You are a super entertainer! Congratulations!

[@smashingenglish]

Thank you so much Geeta!!

[@mavid5679]

I loveeeeeeeeeeeee this U rock, man

[@sixthSigmaSnowball]

Hey luv, I'll have a cob and a pop then tararabit so I can go round about the wrekin.

[@amirffs668]

Thanks g

[@victortomilin7650]

Excellent

[@steinbrugge]

Lovely!

[@pzylx3758]

Bloody hell that's so good for slang

[@allanbuttery5297]

In Leicester the East Midlands say Cob but Midway in Coventry they don`t.

[@willrichardson519]

'Legendary' Nottingham, too.

[@breandanmaguire3335]

Love it

[@bjed21]

Lol in california we call it soda. When I went to Oregon people said pop. Funny the same thing in the u.k 🇬🇧.

[@meandnumber734]

I come from South Staffordshire Funny to here you ah ah!

[@aminthasangel6393]

Lovely!!!!

[@avicohen3035]

She is so funny. I love it. Very funny.

[@zeca4919]

You are great!

[@gulnozkhojaabbos5646]

Oh, wow. You are amazing 😘❤️👍

[@suliiman5856]

Brilliant 😄😄😄🥰

[@franciscoj.sepulvedal.7975]

Great -video¡¡¡¡ greetings from Chile¡

[@writeract2]

I never realized when I imitate the english accent aside from rp i was speaking brummie - wouldn't clart about be easily mistaken for another less fortunate word? cutting it very close.

[@jonnyd802]

the language intrigues me aswell cos in the black country we use the word mush...alrite mush as in alrite mate.now the only other time ive heard mush being used is when you hear tyson fury speak and hes from manchester.i wonder where the word originates from and whether its a gypsy word but ive never known it to be.

[@yahdonteatmekid5772]

Got a question ere? Is the West Bromwich accent the same as the Brummie accent. Cuz shame on me I went to a boarding school in Bradford and I totally forgot about my West Bromwich accent ( basically I had a northerner accent and I want my old accent back )

[@michelgolabaigne595]

Wow ! What a smashing good end beautiful teacher !

[@bhwst68]

Yeah, she‘s bostin!

[@keithphillips7320]

Perhaps the French for "tararabit" is not "au revoir" but "à tout à l'heure" - it's a bit more colloquial and suggests a more imminent repeat meeting, as it were. "A tout à l'heure" was, as you may know, brought back to the UK by the soldiers of WW1 as "toodle -oo".

[@GO0DWOLF]

The Black Country Museum has a channel on TikTok that has given me a leg up on the BC accent. Well, that and deciphering Ozzy's speech since the late 80's. :P If you could answer a question, on the BCM channel, one of the characters often 'greets" the viewer with "Warro, are kid." As he's an older gentleman in an older time, I'm guessing Warro is "what ho?" but the "are kid" to me sounds like it could be either "There kid" or possibly "Our kid." Could you advise?

[@catherinesommer3648]

You got it - Warro = What ho! and are kid = our kid (not necessarily a relation)

[@debbie7860]

There's loads and the younger people don't seem to use it now I keep saying we're are all the brummies

[@neilwilsonmillet8907]

I've tried everything you've said and now I sound like texan

[@callmeaj3077]

i have nothing to do with this place i am just clarting about cus i got a cob on after hearing my accent so many times and after hearing this i am now from bost to bostn' Tararabit😊😊

[@nyabraja3753]

Very good

[@josecalvo9730]

"au widesaun" 😂

[@christophunrein6419]

More such videos!

[@marcelbpunkt]

Ahh, thanks a lot for bringing back memories. I used to live in Hinckley/Leics which does have quite a bit in common with the Brummies (please don't hit me for saying that!) Especially the cobs made my day. I had a lot of them over there 😄

[@muhammadsajid5898]

This was funny 👍

[@picaflorpapalote]

Could someone point out some exact examples of these words in any episode of PB? I'd like to investigate how it was translated into my language :)

[@andrewandreyev784]

Buuuut… I am laughing a lot. Buuut “shrapnel” is very likely to me. You are amazing don’t stop…