00:00Okay, the Birmingham accent. Well, with some people it's like the force.
00:06The force is really strong with them. With some people they are difficult to
00:11understand. You've got to like really focus on it. But in general I think it's
00:16become a lot weaker and there's lots of people who don't really have a strong
00:20Birmingham accent anymore. But just when you feel comfortable that you, you know,
00:25you can talk with anybody, you'll bump into a few people and they'll hit you
00:28with the full force of it. I don't believe so. They're still here constantly
00:34kind of thing. I've always, my mum and dad have always kind of tried to make me
00:40talk a bit more proper. But like yeah, no, I think it's still thriving, especially
00:45in the city kind of thing. So yeah, I've never really noticed it dying out or anything
00:50like that, so no. Maybe in the city centre, yeah. I'm at uni in Birmingham so I'm a
00:55little bit out of the city centre. I don't come in an awful lot. But kind of around the
00:59outskirts of Birmingham, I hear it all the time. So I go to King's Heath, you go to
01:02Harborne, you hear it everywhere. So I don't think it is. I think it's alive and
01:08well. I think also that a lot of people who don't live in the area hear a West
01:17Midlands accent and think of it as a Birmingham accent. And there are
01:22actually a lot of variations of West Midlands accents and they're all going
01:27strong. So you can probably tell I'm not local to Birmingham. I moved here about
01:3125, more than 25 years ago. And I kind of learned that there are lots of accents
01:39in the West Midlands. Well it depends where, what you think the Birmingham accent is.
01:43I'd say a lot of people think the Black Country is a Birmingham accent, but it's not.
01:48Yeah, I think it has a bit of a bad reputation, like Birmingham really in
01:51general, doesn't it? But yeah, I mean, I'm kind of impartial to it. There's worse
01:56accents out there anyway, that's for sure.
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