Joe Lycett spreads Black-Country-Speak in the United States (Of Birmingham)

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In Joe Lycett's new series The United States of Birmingham, the comedian travels across the world visiting other Birmininghams in the spirit of friendship. Here he educates a trucker about the beauty of the Black Country twang.

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00:01This is very specific to Birmingham.

00:03I say tuss.

00:05Tuss.

00:06Yeah, rather than tooth.

00:08And my friend from Liverpool found that very funny.

00:10She pointed and she went,

00:11What's that?

00:12And I said, Oh, it's my tooth.

00:13And she went, You sound ridiculous!

00:15And I thought,

00:17I think shots could be fired in all directions there, actually.

00:21So you would say, Hey, Mum, all eight of my tooth are loose.

00:26No, I'd say teeth.

00:27Oh, you would?

00:28But accurate that in Birmingham most people have eight teeth and they're all loose.

00:33So that's fair.

00:34We could do some black country ones.

00:36Black country?

00:37What in the world is that?

00:38The black country is a bit posh, a bit fancy.

00:42So I went to the pub.

00:43I ordered a glass of white wine.

00:45And the woman behind the bar, she went, We die of it?

00:49What do you think that means?

00:50She sneezed.

00:52I don't know.

00:53It just means we don't have wine.

00:56You're kidding me.

00:57You just need to slow down and enunciate.

01:00I would love for you to go to the black country and say,

01:03You just need to slow down and enunciate.

01:06I'd be as lost as a golf ball on highways if I went to black country.

01:09You certainly would.

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