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    How to speak Common !!
    This is an invaluable guide......

    alma chizzit - A request to find the cost of an item
    amant - Quantity; sum total ("Thez a yuge amant of mud in Saffend")
    assband - Unable to leave the house because of illness, disability etc
    awss - A four legged animal, on which money is won, or more likely lost ("That awss ya tipped cost me a fiver t'day")
    branna - More brown than on a previous occasion ("Ere, Trace, ya look branna today, ave you been on sunbed?")
    cort a panda - A rather large hamburger
    Dan in the maff - Unhappy ("Wossmatta, Trace, ya look a bit Dan in the maff")
    eye-eels - Women's shoes
    Furrock - The location of Lakeside Shopping Centre
    garrij - A building where a car is kept or repaired(Trace: "Oi, Darren, I fink the motah needs at go in the garrij cos it aint working proper")
    Ibeefa - Balaeric holiday island
    lafarjik - Lacking in energy ("I feel all lafarjik")
    OI OI! - Traditional greeting. Often heard from the doorway of pubs or during banging dance tunes at clubs
    paipa - The Sun, The Mirror or The Sport
    reband - The period of recovery and emotional turmoil after rejection by a lover ("I couldn't elp it, I wuz on the reband from Craig")
    Saffend - Essex coastal resort boasting the longest pleasure pier in the world. The place where the characters from TV's, popular soap opera, Amy, & Eastenders go on holiday
    tan - The city of London, the big smoke
    webbats - Querying the location something or someone is. ("Webbats is me dole card Trace? I've gotta sign on in arf hour")
    wonnid - 1. Desired, needed. 2. Wanted by the police
    zaggerate - To suggest that something is bigger or better than it actually is. ("I told ya a fazzand timesphor

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    Re: Language?

    Most of that doesn't sound common, it sounds like Black Country to me. Only a bit less broad....

    Or should I say
    Most of that dow sownd common to me, it sownds like Black Countree. Cor stop, just off to read me paypa"
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    • #3
      Re: Language?

      I sure that dialect will ring a bell with a certain site user

      msl:

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      • #4
        Re: Language?

        Yes, me. No one else from the Black Country is there?Or were you talking about the original dialect in Nik's first post.:roll:

        Oh yeah, forgot there's a Villa fan on here, but that's not strictly Black Country, that's Brummie and sounds completely different:roll:
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        • #5
          Re: Language?

          No its the local references and places that will give it away,

          msl:

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          • #6
            Re: Language?

            Means nothing to me Vienna.
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            • #7
              Re: Language?

              Saffend
              Lakeside Shopping Centre

              They will ring a bell with someone

              I am so gonna get a slap
              :coat:

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              • #8
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                Read Saffend carefully PK, and you'll see why I'm going to get the mother of all slappings!

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