A Conversation for How to Speak Brummie

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cool_cellist

"It contains most of the same vowel changes from Southern English ..."
I always thought that it was the Southerners who were unable to hear, let alone pronounce, the wide range of English vowel sounds [now referred to as Northern vowels] and were therefore forced to simplify them and drag them down to their own level.
"What have they done to the language of ShaikespeeRR?" smiley - erm ...
Brought it down to their own level?


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