On the eleventh of November 2009 there happened a pyschogeographical epic. A window of eleven hours to complete a circuit of Birmingham’s number eleven bus.
It’s simple, this Friday is Talk Like A Brummie Day — what do you have to do? Talk Like A Brummie. Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! Easy for some of you, harder for others, but there are pages of words and phrases to use n the TLAB dictionary and accent tips too. If you don’t...
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Last years inaugural Talk Like a Brummie Day was loads of fun, thousands of people (on top of the million or so that already do) spent one day practising their best Brummie accents and I spent the day rushing between TV and radio interviews. It did seem to raise conciousness of the plight of...
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Looks like we might need a Talk Like A Brummie Day next year, the Press Association are still lazily reporting surveys for completely unrelated companies, from tiny samples, that do nothing but ridicule people for where they come from: the Birmingham accent was the one parents would least like their child to use.
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After a hectic week rushing round promoting TLAB Day (I’ve just this minute got back from doing Radio Five on a show with Danny Kelly*) can we relax here? Course not. One of the legacies of TLABD, we hope will be an online Brummie dictionary – there were hundreds of phrases added to the...
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Most visitors to B:iNS would probably be speaking like a brummie anyways, but the idea for today is to get all those other people to have a go themselves. If you’re having fun talking like a brummie add a comment to this tread on www.talklikeabrummieday.co.uk. BREAKING NEWS: Due to extreme weather – the event...
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This Friday people around the country with be spending the day talking like a Brummie, calling each other “bab” and advising people to go “careful past your granny’s”. The campaign has built up with hundreds of pledges on myspace and facebook and there are people planning to spend the day talking like a Brummie...
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So, what have you got planned for Talk Like A Brummie Day on July the 20th – apart from talking like a Brummie obviously? Are you putting up the posters now, have you changed your screensaver, and put the desktop wallpaper up on your computer – if you’ve got a webpage or blog have...
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Have you heard of Talk Like A Pirate Day? We have an idea… how about Talk Like A Brummie Day? Well, if this comes off, this July people around the city and the rest of the country with be asked to spend one day talking like a Brummie, in the hope that it will...
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