00:00What does it take to be a Brummie? Well I suppose you've got to be born in the area
00:04first of all, live in the area, be familiar with it. So I'm not from here
00:11so my observations are actually I find Brummies pretty friendly, pretty direct
00:17and friendly. That's what I found so far. Okay well the first thing I'd say about
00:22Birmingham is there are no rights of passage. Birmingham is a very welcoming
00:26city, just about anybody can arrive here and you're made to feel welcome. That to
00:31me is one of the strengths of the city, its diversity and that in the main it's
00:36comfortable with that diversity. Not everybody is, but the vast majority of
00:39people here are. It's a great city, it doesn't sing its praises, it's laid back
00:45about its great history, doesn't always appreciate that and I think
00:50that's why the rest of the country is comfortable about
00:55ignoring Birmingham pretty much. Great city. I think it's got to be the
01:00accent hasn't it, so you can identify a Brummie fairly easily from the way that
01:05they talk, the way they speak and the way that they sort of describe things and
01:09use unique words to explain how things work in a Brummie way. I think
01:14that's probably the most easy way to identify someone as from
01:19Birmingham and the way that you know that that's where we're from
01:22I'd say, if they might. I think people around here are quite open and are quite nice so
01:29like people are nice, so like not everyone is just closed down. Let's say
01:34you needed to answer, let's say you wanted to ask a question to someone,
01:38people are quite open and friendly. Rather than if you go to London or
01:43Manchester, people are a bit closed down, you know what I mean, yeah from my
01:47experience. Brummies, when they're talking about their mum, it's always M-O-M mum
01:55whereas everywhere else it's M-U-M mum.
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