OK yo lot. Yo wanna 'ear ow we spake? Well, 'av a gander at this Dudley dialect website from the BBC... http://www.bbc.co.uk/blackcountry/voices2005/dudley/index.shtml Click on the "Listen to the clip" links. I particularly like the one called 'He day arf spake funny' it's bostin !!! There's also one for 'Hampton (Wolverhampton to the uninitiated) at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blackcountry/voices2005/wolverhampton/index.shtml All the best Ian Ian Beach Bunbury, Western Australia ian@sedgleymanor.com Webmaster of "The Ancient Manor of Sedgley" in Staffordshire at http://www.sedgleymanor.com Listowner ENG-STS-SEDGLEY at http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/ENG/ENG-STS-SEDGLEY.html Researching: Sedgley, Staffordshire : ADDIS(S), BEACH, CASWELL, GUTTERIDGE, HOPKINS, FLAVELL, MILLARD & TURLEY Darlaston, Staffordshire : FOSTER, ORME & YATES Shropshire : ADDIS(S), BEACH, CASWELL Karen and Lee wrote: > I almost feel like ringing Mellie, Just to see how this language really > sounds, problem being if I can't understand it typed there is no way I would > understand it spoken. > Cheers Karen > Central Queensland Australia > PS- Still waiting to hear about Casseys fish > > ---- Original Message ----- > From: "Mellie" <chouikh2006@btinternet.com> > To: <ENG-BLACK-COUNTRY-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 5:50 PM > Subject: Re: [B.C.] First Name FANNY > > >>>> Fanny was quite common in Victorian times. On one of the lists I came >>>> across >> a marriage where a Mr Tickell had married a girl called Fanny. She must > have >> thought a great deal of him to have agreed to change her name! >> Jim.<<< >> >> now look ere, yowm, doin this deliberate to set me off ay ya! >> Mellie >> How Come My Coat Of Arms Has Buckles At The Back? >> >> >> ==== ENG-BLACK-COUNTRY Mailing List ==== >> The B.C. List Admin is Dave Ogden :- >> d.ogden@blueyonder.co.uk >> > > > > ==== ENG-BLACK-COUNTRY Mailing List ==== > Wherever possible (except for personal messages) > please post replies to the list.Other people can learn from them! > > > > >

OK yo lot. Yo wanna 'ear ow we spake? Well, 'av a gander at this Dudley dialect website from the BBC... guddun Ian, I know'd this wos on the web sumwere! Mellie How Come My Coat Of Arms Has Buckles At The Back?

There's also one for Walsall but I thought the voice sounded more like Darlaston. Trouble is the folks who are doing the recording come from down south and wouldn't know the difference. Pat. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Beach" <ian@sedgleymanor.com> To: <ENG-BLACK-COUNTRY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 9:02 AM Subject: Re: [B.C.] Mellie & the BC Dialect > OK yo lot. Yo wanna 'ear ow we spake? > > Well, 'av a gander at this Dudley dialect website from the BBC... > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/blackcountry/voices2005/dudley/index.shtml > > Click on the "Listen to the clip" links. I particularly like the one > called 'He day arf spake funny' it's bostin !!! > > There's also one for 'Hampton (Wolverhampton to the uninitiated) at > http://www.bbc.co.uk/blackcountry/voices2005/wolverhampton/index.shtml > > All the best > > Ian