Oi watch it you!!! Haha. That’s how we would say that phrase in the North East. Midlanders always sound southern to me until they say they’re from Nottingham or whatever.
Also, ‘mush’ is an affectionate term for pal in Yorkshire. E.g. ‘ayup mush’ - ‘hello mate’
Yeah man, exactly. Thinking they’re cool by shortening one word and then ending up saying another one a longer way to make it make sense in the new, evolving dialect.
A big one here now is lit instead of like. So rather than the usual “I was like that”, as you’d hear from Charles Dickens or Jane Austen, we get “A was lit at” which has now crossed over into written communication.
I’m from that area but you wouldn’t really know it to hear me speak.
It is in parts of the Midlands too.
Newark, where I lived for a bit, has its own dictionary.
It sounds like Midlanders interbred with pikeys.
Ima fuming bout this.
mom is a brummie thing
Mods. This is a ban surely?
Haha! I don’t want to point fingers but I’m fairly sure P_gd_g said this once which legitimised it for me.
It can really rub some folk up the wrong way when you #holibobs a twitter post… especially if it’s along the lines of ‘X more sleeps’.
(Edit: 12h later. In case he misses this, I thought I’d better tag @pigdog237 to confirm / deny).
Post flagged. Don’t really want to see that sort of language here, this is a nice place.
You’re not helping…
Hahaha!!
Trying to justify my use of said word by dragging an authority forum figure down too. I should ashamed of myself.
the only person i know who’s not american & says it is a brummie so for me it is yes
Ha. I knew that would trigger some people. Feel like a badass now I’ve been flagged.
Ha, are we talking about “holibobs”!? I was sure my missus invented that word about 20 years ago! 
@doowyrag I was really shocked to hear other people say it! I’ve tried researching it on Google.
Going back to the “mom” thing - most of the UK people who say mom, are switching their pronunciation to an Americanisation.
I think if Brummies pronounce it mom, it’s not that they’re not saying “mum”, it’s just the way their accent makes it sound. But the confusion of the popularity of “mom” has blurred the boundaries. Funnily enough, I saw a DVD boxset of the “Bad Moms” films the other day. I bet that would’ve been translated to “Bad Mums” 15 years ago.
The one that gets me is how everyone is starting to pronounce A’s in words like “can’t” and “dance” like a posh person! Even Bristolians are saying KONT instead of KANT!
Chirs De Burgh’s “The lady in red is DONSSING with me” and Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder on the DONCE Floor” were cringe inducing posh a few years ago, and now everyone’s at it!
At 01:33 PM on 09 Nov 2006, TheBigUn wrote:
No other reason to post other than to see if this is the 500th one
It is geting close now!
I still can not think what Chris will make of this effort in keeping the blog going whilst he is away on his holibobs!
Keith
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From the 9th of November, 2006 on a Chris Evans BBC blog:
That’s the first reference to it I can find using an amateurish search on Google. My missus was absolutely definitely using the word at least 5 years before that, you’ll be pleased to know!
Obviously a massive generalisation but if you look at grime/street culture/inner city accents they’ve all gone this way from the midlands down… Picture how Stormzy would say “Can’t” it’s not the traditionally northern can-t, it would be more like corn-t, same as “Dancing” it would be more like darn-sin, kids just slip in to using what they hear, and london grime is massive. There’s aggressive anunciation on the start of words a lot more now so “Book” for instance, my daughters mum says the northern style boo-k whereas a london kid would say BU-k, it’s a shorter, sharper pronounciation.
Can we agree that saying “Where’s that to?” makes you a twat?
Where are you guys from and how do you pronounce Ipswich? Do you pronounce the W?
That’s standard Bristolian! Advanced Bristolian is “where’s 'ee to?” not actually meaning “he” but “it”!
'ow bist? means “how are you?” - there’s some strange Old English / Germanisms in Bristolian. “Bist” means “is” in German, and seems to in Bristolian too.
