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Thread #171653   Message #4153102
Posted By: Mr Red
20-Sep-22 - 05:14 AM
Thread Name: BS: Falling Standards in BBC Pronunciation
Subject: RE: BS: Falling Standards in BBC Pronunciation
‘Nottinam’ and ‘Birminam’.
"The kind of language, up with which we will not put" Winston S Churchill

But, cough, isn't there a song called "Nottanum Town"? And we in the (much posher) Black Country** invariably referred to Brumagem in lazy slang as Brum.

**Wedgebury since you ask (or Wodensburg for the traditionalists)