Brummie - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Brummie: Encyclopedia Ii - Brummie - Accent
Brummie is a prominent example of a regional accent of British English. Examples of celebrity speakers include comedian Jasper Carrott, h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phonological History Of English Consonants: Encyclopedia - Phonological History Of English Consonants
Phonological history of English consonants - H-cluster reductions. Glide cluster reductions The wine-whine merger is a merger by whic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Birmingham: Encyclopedia - Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the English West Midlands. It is commonly considered to be England's "second city" and i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phonological History Of English Consonants: Encyclopedia Ii - Phonological History Of English Consonants - Elimination Of Velar Fricatives In English
Phonological history of English consonants - Taut-taught merger. The taut-taught merger is a process that occurs in most dialects of En...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Birmingham: Encyclopedia Ii - Birmingham - History
Birmingham has a recorded history going back 1000 years. In this time, it has grown from a tiny Anglo-Saxon farming village into a major ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brummagem: Encyclopedia Ii - Brummagem - History
The word appeared in the Middle Ages as a variant on the older and coexisting form Birmingham - spelt Bermingeham in the Domesday Book - ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English English: Encyclopedia Ii - English English - General Features
The British Isles is one of the most linguistically diverse areas in the English-speaking world. Significant changes in dialect (pronunci...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carl Chinn: Encyclopedia Ii - Carl Chinn - Career
Born in Moseley to parents from Sparkbrook and Aston, Chinn grew up in Birmingham and was educated at Moseley School. He initially follow...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Languages - Classification
Note that divisions between subfamilies of Germanic are rarely precisely defined; most form continuous clines, with adjacent dialects bei...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Birmingham: Encyclopedia Ii - Birmingham - History
Birmingham has a recorded history going back 1000 years. In this time, it has grown from a tiny Anglo-Saxon farming village into a major ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phonological History Of English Short A: Encyclopedia Ii - Phonological History Of English Short A - æ-tensing
In the sociolinguistics of English, æ-tensing is a process that occurs in some accents of North American English by which the vowel [æ]...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Birmingham: Encyclopedia Ii - Birmingham - Transport
Due in part to its central location in England, Birmingham is a major transport hub on the motorway, rail, and canal networks. It is serv...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Birmingham: Encyclopedia Ii - Birmingham - Politics
Birmingham City Council is the largest local authority in the UK with, following a reorganisation of boundaries in June 2004, 120 council...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brummagem: Encyclopedia Ii - Brummagem - 19th Century
The pejorative use of the word was later applied to "Brummagem ware", cheap mass-produced goods such as costume jewellery manufactured in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brummagem: Encyclopedia Ii - Brummagem - Modern Usage
"Brummagem" remained a staple of British political and critical discourse into the early 20th century: The Times, Aug 13, 1901 quoted a H...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Birmingham: Encyclopedia Ii - Birmingham - Science And Invention
Local inventions and notable firsts include: gas lighting, roller skate wheels, the Baskerville Font, questionnaires, Custard powder, foa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Birmingham: Encyclopedia Ii - Birmingham - Culture And Arts
Birmingham - Popular music. Although its music scene is not as renowned as those of Liverpool or Manchester, Birmingham has had a vibra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Birmingham: Encyclopedia Ii - Birmingham - Education
Birmingham has three universities: the University of Birmingham, Aston University and the University of Central England (UCE). It also ha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Birmingham: Encyclopedia Ii - Birmingham - Sport
A cricket club was in existence in Birmingham as early as 1745, and today the city is home to Warwickshire County Cricket Club whose grou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Birmingham: Encyclopedia Ii - Birmingham - Food & Drink
Birmingham based Breweries included Ansells, Davenports and Mitchells & Butlers. Aston Manor Brewery is currently the only brewery of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brummagem: Encyclopedia Ii - Brummagem - Us Usage
In the USA, the negative usage appears to have been longer-lasting. F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1922 novel The Beautiful and Damned uses the wo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Birmingham: Encyclopedia Ii - Birmingham - Architecture
Although Birmingham has existed as a settlement for over a thousand years, today's city is overwhelmingly a product of the 18th, 19th, an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English English: Encyclopedia Ii - English English - Radio And Tv Featuring Regional English Accents
Misrepresentations can also appear in the media. The soap "Emmerdale" is set in Yorkshire, yet some of the actors have Lancashire accents...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Languages - Vocabulary Comparison
Several of the terms in the table below have had semantic drift. For example, the form 'Sterben' and other terms for 'die' are cognate wi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Birmingham: Encyclopedia Ii - Birmingham - Geography
The city of Birmingham is situated on an area of high ground, around 150-200 metres above sea level. The main north-south watershed of Br...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English English: Encyclopedia Ii - English English - Northern England
English English - General features. There are several accent features which are common to most of the accents of northern England. The...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English English: Encyclopedia Ii - English English - Midlands
English English - West Midlands. The best known accents in the West Midlands area are the Birmingham accents (see "Brummie") and the B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carl Chinn: Encyclopedia Ii - Carl Chinn - Politics
It has been widely suggested that if Birmingham were to introduce direct mayoral elections as in London and some other towns in the UK, C...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Birmingham: Encyclopedia Ii - Birmingham - Economy
Birmingham is an important manufacturing and engineering centre, employing over 100,000 people in industry and contributing billions of p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English English: Encyclopedia Ii - English English - Southern England
In general, Southern English accents are distinguished from Northern English accents primarily by the use of broad A (that is, words like...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Birmingham: Encyclopedia Ii - Birmingham - Transport
Due in part to its central location in England, Birmingham is a major transport hub on the motorway, rail, and canal networks. It is serv...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Birmingham: Encyclopedia Ii - Birmingham - Famous Residents
Neville Chamberlain, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Ozzy Osbourne are a few of the many famous names associated with Birmingham. For a larger list...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phonological History Of English Consonants: Encyclopedia Ii - Phonological History Of English Consonants - Phonological History Of Ng
Phonological history of English consonants - NG coalescence. NG coalescence (or the singer-finger split) is the name given to a sound c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phonological History Of English Consonants: Encyclopedia Ii - Phonological History Of English Consonants - H-dropping And H-adding
Phonological history of English consonants - H-dropping. H-dropping is a colloquial term used to describe the omission of initial /h/ i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Birmingham: Encyclopedia Ii - Birmingham - Food & Drink
Birmingham based Breweries included Ansells, Davenports and Mitchells & Butlers. Aston Manor Brewery is currently the only brewery of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phonological History Of English Consonants: Encyclopedia Ii - Phonological History Of English Consonants - Elimination Of Dental Fricatives In English Dialects
Phonological history of English consonants - TH fronting. TH fronting is a merger that occurs (historically independently) in Cockney, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phonological History Of English Consonants: Encyclopedia Ii - Phonological History Of English Consonants - Consonant Cluster Reductions
Phonological history of English consonants - H-cluster reductions. Glide cluster reductions The wine-whine merger is a merger by whic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Languages - Vocabulary Comparison
Several of the terms in the table below have had semantic drift. For example, the form 'Sterben' and other terms for 'die' are cognate wi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Languages - Writing
Our earliest evidence of Germanic is from names, recorded in the 1st century by Tacitus, and in a single instance in the 2nd century BC, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Languages - History
All Germanic languages are thought to be descended from a hypothetical Proto-Germanic, united by their having been subjected to the sound...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Birmingham: Encyclopedia Ii - Birmingham - Culture And Arts
Birmingham - Popular music. Although its music scene is not as renowned as those of Liverpool or Manchester, Birmingham has had a vibra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Birmingham: Encyclopedia Ii - Birmingham - Sport
A cricket club was in existence in Birmingham as early as 1745, and today the city is home to Warwickshire County Cricket Club whose grou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Birmingham: Encyclopedia Ii - Birmingham - Education
Birmingham has three universities: the University of Birmingham, Aston University and the University of Central England (UCE). It also ha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Birmingham: Encyclopedia Ii - Birmingham - Economy
Birmingham is an important manufacturing and engineering centre, employing over 100,000 people in industry and contributing billions of p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Birmingham: Encyclopedia Ii - Birmingham - Architecture
Although Birmingham has existed as a settlement for over a thousand years, today's city is overwhelmingly a product of the 18th, 19th, an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Birmingham: Encyclopedia Ii - Birmingham - Politics
Birmingham City Council is the largest local authority in the UK with, following a reorganisation of boundaries in June 2004, 120 council...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Birmingham: Encyclopedia Ii - Birmingham - Geography
The city of Birmingham is situated on an area of high ground, around 150-200 metres above sea level. The main north-south watershed of Br...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Birmingham: Encyclopedia Ii - Birmingham - Famous Residents
Neville Chamberlain, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Ozzy Osbourne are a few of the many famous names associated with Birmingham. For a larger list...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phonological History Of English Short A: Encyclopedia Ii - Phonological History Of English Short A - Trap-bath Split
The trap-bath split is a vowel split that occurs mainly in southern varieties of English English (including Received Pronunciation), in t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phonological History Of English Short A: Encyclopedia Ii - Phonological History Of English Short A - Bad-lad Split
The bad-lad split is a phonemic split of the Early Modern English short vowel phoneme /æ/ into a short /æ/ and a long /æː/. This spli...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Birmingham: Encyclopedia Ii - Birmingham - Transport
Due in part to its central location in England, Birmingham is a major transport hub on the motorway, rail, and canal networks. It is serv...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Birmingham: Encyclopedia Ii - Birmingham - Science And Invention
Local inventions and notable firsts include: gas lighting, roller skate wheels, the Baskerville Font, questionnaires, Custard powder, foa...   » Read the article