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Posted: **Mon Oct 20, 2008 12:13 am**

Black Country Words and Phrases

http://www.virtualbrum.co.uk/slang.htm

Black Country Dictionary

http://www.sedgleymanor.com/dictionaries/dialect.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blackcountry/featu ... /a_b.shtml

Black Country Sayings

http://www.sedgleymanor.com/dictionaries/sayings.html

Posted: **Mon Oct 20, 2008 10:16 am**

Nice one Pete...great idea....let's all post the ones we know too!

I know some northern ones :roll:

ok this is one I know but bet my spellin is off!

"ers gorra voice like a glead under the door"
:oops:

Posted: **Wed Nov 19, 2008 1:01 pm**

Little ditty my mother ofter recites,

Wot a love ely nit ti tis,
Wot a many staars,
Wot a love ely grate thist got,
Wot a many baars,
I bin a cor tin,
Day yow nouw,
I tod thi faatha,
Day e tel thou.
translation
What a lovely night it is,
What a many stars,
What a lovely grate you have got,
What a many bars,
I have been a courting,
Didn't you know,
I told your father'
Didn't he tell you.
Didn't you know,
I told your father didn't he tell you

Posted: **Thu Nov 20, 2008 8:55 pm**

My dad always used to say;-

I ould if I cud but I cor so I shor so I woe........... I presume I would if I could but I can't so I won't!

Posted: **Thu Nov 20, 2008 9:07 pm**

Ha! ha! powerj
I very often say " I would if I could, but I can't, so I shan't, so I won't"
I just thought perhaps it was something I'd made up as a kid

Posted: **Thu Nov 20, 2008 10:49 pm**

My Mom used to say that as well powerj. Another one was "er's got a bell in every tooth and when 'er opens 'er mouth it rings" meaning "goodness me (that's posh) doesn't she talk loud"

Posted: **Thu Nov 20, 2008 11:55 pm**

Has anyone heard the phrase - That's never right, In the reign of pigs puddin' ?

Posted: **Thu Nov 20, 2008 11:57 pm**

Posted: **Thu Nov 20, 2008 11:58 pm**

a man of few words tonight Rob?

Posted: **Fri Nov 21, 2008 12:03 am**

I'm reading all the comments San!
Good stuff!! x

Posted: **Fri Nov 21, 2008 9:24 am**

mallosa wrote::lol:
Has anyone heard the phrase - That's never right, In the reign of pigs puddin' ?

I have heard the one that aint rite in a month of sundays!
but then I spake proper!!

:lol:

Posted: **Fri Nov 21, 2008 1:07 pm**

I oud if I cud.....
one of my grandmother sayings definately blackcountry

What about
if pigs cud fly the'd meck unlikely burds

I am amazed how many word there are on birmingham and blackcountry slang list I recognise and sometimesuse not knowing they are black country. Not lived there for forty years.

Favourite all round the reakin

Posted: **Sun Dec 14, 2008 6:17 pm**

If you haven't seen this lot they have been on the news and radio recently and it is so funny!
Think I might get some t.shirts from them for the Connections site!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=meALhh0vrxM

I love the council pop one and Z is for a stripey hoss! rofl!

:lol: