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Post by Grroosss on May 8, 2019 6:11:17 GMT
'Cos maybe it makes perfect sense to you, but certainly not to me... How do you get "Brum" beat and "Brummie" accents from "Birmingham", and how the heck do you get "Mersey" beat and "Scouse" accents from "Liverpool"?
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Post by dillwyn on May 8, 2019 6:40:04 GMT
Straight out of wikipedia Scouse is an accent and dialect of English found primarily in the Metropolitan county of Merseyside, and closely associated with the city of Liverpool Origin Mid 19th century: abbreviation of Brummagem (and historically also Bromichan, Bremicham and many similar variants, all essentially "Bromwich-ham") is the local name for the city of Birmingham, England, and the dialect associated with it. It gave rise to the terms Brum (a shortened version of Brummagem) and Brummie (applied to inhabitants of the city, their accent and dialect).
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Post by Grroosss on May 8, 2019 20:16:53 GMT
Straight out of wikipedia Scouse is an accent and dialect of English found primarily in the Metropolitan county of Merseyside, and closely associated with the city of Liverpool Origin Mid 19th century: abbreviation of Brummagem (and historically also Bromichan, Bremicham and many similar variants, all essentially "Bromwich-ham") is the local name for the city of Birmingham, England, and the dialect associated with it. It gave rise to the terms Brum (a shortened version of Brummagem) and Brummie (applied to inhabitants of the city, their accent and dialect). Thanks Had to put my mind to rest and read a little further, apparently "scouse" comes from the name of a stew popular in Liverpool. The more you know!
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Post by Horacewimp on May 8, 2019 20:21:39 GMT
Mersey is of course the river and estuary by Liverpool.
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Post by tremblinwilbury on May 9, 2019 7:32:09 GMT
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Post by BSJ on May 9, 2019 21:47:30 GMT
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Post by queenofthehours on May 10, 2019 19:10:38 GMT
I never really knew how "Brummie" came out of "Birmingham" but now I do!
Apparently "Geordies" are so named because of the Geordie Lamp invented by George Stephenson.
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