Birmingham Pronunciation vs The Rest Of The UK🇬🇧

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]Birmingham pronunciation versus the rest of the UK pronunciation.

[00:00:03]>> A tiptop. What?

[00:00:04]>> You don't know what a gamble is?

[00:00:05]>> I don't know what that means.

[00:00:06]>> Daughter.

[00:00:07]>> Daughter.

[00:00:07]>> Daughter.

[00:00:08]>> Daughter.

[00:00:08]>> Daughter. I'm in freaking Weather Spoons right now. You know, I've got some of my friends friends. Jacob. Hello. Hello.

[00:00:14]Hello. And he introduced us to some of his friends, but they're not from Birmingham. You get me? They're from the rest of the UK. Where you from?

[00:00:21]>> Rugby.

[00:00:22]>> I don't know where rugby is. You from rugby?

[00:00:25]>> Define rugby.

[00:00:26]>> Define rugby.

[00:00:27]>> Define rugby.

[00:00:28]>> It's a It's a sport. It's a sport or not a sport. Sport >> that you pick up a ball and you run and then you tackle everyone >> that's playing.

[00:00:36]>> Anyway, she's from rugby. Big up rugby.

[00:00:38]I've never been to rugby. My uncle used to drive buses in rugby. And now where are you from?

[00:00:43]>> Swindon.

[00:00:43]>> I don't know where Swindon is, but big up Swindon.

[00:00:46]>> Big up Swindon.

[00:00:47]>> Come on. Now, where are you from?

[00:00:49]>> I'm from London.

[00:00:50]>> Londonium. We got London, Swindon, and Rugby. All right, my people. So, here's how it's going to go is the first half I'm going to say some Birmingham like pronunciations. cuz you know that's how I speak normally and I'm going to see how they would say it. But then the second half I'm going to do Birmingham slang and see like what's their version of it. All right, you know the vibes.

[00:01:08]Yo, I'm going to get straight into it.

[00:01:09]Yeah. So, all right. So, the first word, how do you guys say daughter?

[00:01:16]>> Daughter.

[00:01:17]>> Daughter.

[00:01:18]>> Daughter with the T.

[00:01:20]>> Daughter.

[00:01:21]>> Daughter.

[00:01:21]>> Daughter.

[00:01:22]>> Daughter.

[00:01:23]>> All right. She's not budging. How would How would you say daughter?

[00:01:27]>> Daughter. So, like you have to add the T. Come on.

[00:01:30]>> Daughter.

[00:01:31]>> Daughter.

[00:01:31]>> Daughter.

[00:01:32]>> Daughter.

[00:01:32]>> Daughter.

[00:01:33]>> Daughter.

[00:01:33]>> Daughter.

[00:01:34]>> How would you say it London? Miss London.

[00:01:36]>> I'm saying daughter as well. Daughter. I know you're saying daughter. I'm saying daughter.

[00:01:41]>> Violating. Daughter.

[00:01:43]>> Daughter.

[00:01:43]>> You guys let me know down below. Is it daughter or daughter? Quiet. Next one.

[00:01:47]Glasses. Glasses.

[00:01:48]>> Glasses.

[00:01:49]>> Glasses.

[00:01:50]>> Glasses. Glasses.

[00:01:52]>> Glasses.

[00:01:54]>> Oh, glasses.

[00:01:55]>> Yeah. I can't find my glasses. You've you've gone and done it. You've took it.

[00:01:58]There. You have. It's glasses.

[00:02:00]>> Glasses.

[00:02:01]>> Glasses.

[00:02:02]>> It's glasses.

[00:02:03]>> Glasses.

[00:02:04]>> Rugby. Me and Rugby. We're on the same team.

[00:02:07]>> Come on. Glasses. Right.

[00:02:09]>> Glasses. Can't find my glasses. Glasses.

[00:02:11]>> You can't find your what?

[00:02:12]>> Can't find my glasses.

[00:02:13]>> All right. What?

[00:02:14]>> There's glasses.

[00:02:15]>> No.

[00:02:16]>> Yeah. Come on.

[00:02:17]>> Glasses.

[00:02:18]>> Ear. These two. Ear. These two. Glasses, mate. Glasses, not glasses. You've lost the plot. You have.

[00:02:22]>> No, I haven't.

[00:02:23]>> We're on the same team. It's two against Oh, it's two against two in it.

[00:02:27]>> Glasses. That sounds so odd.

[00:02:30]>> It doesn't roll off the tongue.

[00:02:33]>> Glasses.

[00:02:34]>> Glasses.

[00:02:35]>> Glasses.

[00:02:35]>> You two are posh. That's some posh behavior. That is That's >> No, it's just London.

[00:02:39]>> The next word is laughing.

[00:02:42]>> Laughing. How would you guys say laughing?

[00:02:44]>> Laughing.

[00:02:46]>> That's how.

[00:02:46]>> Yeah, I would say it the same.

[00:02:47]>> Laughing.

[00:02:48]>> She says laughing.

[00:02:49]>> Laughing. You got took it there again.

[00:02:51]It's laughing.

[00:02:51]>> I'm laughing.

[00:02:52]>> Laughing. I'm laughing.

[00:02:54]>> Laughing.

[00:02:54]>> I I was laughing earlier.

[00:02:56]>> Laughing.

[00:02:57]>> I was laughing.

[00:02:58]>> Laughing.

[00:03:00]>> She's going to meet me. Look, Me and Rugby were on the same team.

[00:03:03]>> Laughing.

[00:03:04]>> Laughing.

[00:03:05]>> Say it in a sentence.

[00:03:07]>> Um, I'm laughing at you.

[00:03:08]>> I'm laughing.

[00:03:09]>> I'm laughing at you for saying laughing.

[00:03:11]Laughing.

[00:03:12]>> I'm laughing at you, mate.

[00:03:13]>> It's laughing.

[00:03:13]>> How about that? I'm laughing at you.

[00:03:16]>> Um, hold up. I'm trying to find it.

[00:03:18]Asked. Asked.

[00:03:20]>> Asked.

[00:03:21]>> Asked. Can't be asked.

[00:03:23]>> asked.

[00:03:24]>> Can't be asked.

[00:03:25]>> asked.

[00:03:26]>> Can't Can't be asked.

[00:03:27]>> Asked.

[00:03:28]>> Can't be asked.

[00:03:29]>> Asked.

[00:03:29]>> Asked.

[00:03:30]>> It's asked.

[00:03:31]>> Ask.

[00:03:32]>> All right. Let's Let's see what the London Let's see. Let's see what Miss London says. Ask >> asked.

[00:03:37]>> What's with the R? There ain't no R in there.

[00:03:39]>> It's asked.

[00:03:40]>> Ask.

[00:03:40]>> Ask.

[00:03:41]>> Asked.

[00:03:41]>> Asked.

[00:03:42]>> Asked.

[00:03:43]>> Asked.

[00:03:44]>> Asked.

[00:03:45]>> You've done. She's lost the plot. She hasn't. You let you you let me know where the R is in ask. Where's the R >> in the spelling of the word?

[00:03:54]>> Where's the R gone?

[00:03:56]>> Oh yeah.

[00:03:58]>> My bad. My bad.

[00:04:00]>> She's lost the absolute >> I actually have now.

[00:04:02]>> That's the plot you are. All right, the next one.

[00:04:04]>> Bath. Not bath. Like bathing and bath.

[00:04:06]Bath.

[00:04:07]>> How would you say bath? Bath.

[00:04:08]>> Bath.

[00:04:09]>> Bath.

[00:04:10]>> Bath. Ain't it bath?

[00:04:13]>> Here we go with the Rs. Bath. You've done lost the plot.

[00:04:17]>> I'm saying bath.

[00:04:18]>> Hold up. Hear me out now. B A T H. Where is the R in in in bath? What is that blood? That's like bath. That sounds like you're about to throw up.

[00:04:26]>> There's no R. That's just how you say it. Bath. Bath. Bath.

[00:04:31]>> So you guys are basically saying you're about to throw up. And I'm saying the bath like that you wash yourself in. Cuz I'm saying it properly. Bath.

[00:04:37]>> Yeah, my people. The next word is water.

[00:04:39]Water. How would you guys say water?

[00:04:42]>> Water.

[00:04:44]>> Water >> with a T. Water.

[00:04:45]>> Water.

[00:04:46]>> Water.

[00:04:48]>> You say water, but it's really But really it >> it really is water, but I can't be asked to say all that.

[00:04:55]>> Maybe also you just say water in it. You just slow it down. Water. How would you say water?

[00:04:59]>> I say water.

[00:05:02]>> I say water.

[00:05:03]>> Water.

[00:05:04]>> Water.

[00:05:05]>> All right. Next section, my people. I'm going to go for Birmingham slang. How do you guys say? All right. The first one, this is a random one. How do you guys say fizzy pop? Like fizzy pop. What?

[00:05:14]What's your version of fizzy pop?

[00:05:16]>> A fizzy drink.

[00:05:18]>> Come on. What's your version of fizzy pop?

[00:05:19]>> Fizzy brown.

[00:05:21]>> Fizzy bloody what?

[00:05:22]>> Fizzy brown.

[00:05:23]>> Is that what you guys been saying in Sweden?

[00:05:25]>> No. Have you ever Have you ever heard of live under the stairs?

[00:05:28]>> Fizzy brown.

[00:05:29]>> No, she says fizzy brown.

[00:05:31]>> You have done lost up like you have.

[00:05:32]What's your version of fizzy pop?

[00:05:34]>> I say fizzy drink as well. I feel like pop's American.

[00:05:37]>> American.

[00:05:37]>> I would say pop.

[00:05:38]>> No, they say soda.

[00:05:39]>> Say soda in America.

[00:05:40]>> Sod pop soda.

[00:05:43]How would you guys say rah? Now rah in Birmingham, we say this a lot. I say it all the damn time. It means we're emphasizing a point. So that drink over there or this sauce, it's raw. Fire. It ra tastes nice. So it emphasizes a point.

[00:05:57]>> Ra.

[00:05:59]Where's my backy?

[00:06:01]>> What? Where's you at?

[00:06:02]>> Raw. Where's my backy?

[00:06:03]>> Your bathroom. Yeah. Ra. Where's Where's your backy?

[00:06:06]>> Ra. Where's my backy? No. No. Just like raw.

[00:06:09]>> You've just freaking You've just made raw sound bush. What the flip? So, what would be your like what's your version of broth?

[00:06:15]>> Like that's crazy or something like that.

[00:06:17]>> That's crazy.

[00:06:18]>> I don't know. Like I'm mad that or something. I don't know.

[00:06:21]>> It's mad.

[00:06:22]>> Mine's like mad too. Do we even have one in London? Like that tastes bare nice is in the same ra tastes nice.

[00:06:30]>> It does. You know it bear. Yeah.

[00:06:33]>> Yeah. That's what I was thinking when you said that.

[00:06:35]>> So it tastes bare nice.

[00:06:36]>> Yeah. I guess that's a that's a word that we use.

[00:06:39]>> Yeah, man. Bear. London. Bear.

[00:06:41]Birmingham raw. The next Birmingham slang word is maza. Maza. Yeah. Is used to basically something to say something is a mad thing. It's crazy. It's nuts.

[00:06:52]>> I wouldn't say that's a maza. I would say that's pretty crazy.

[00:06:56]>> What would you say?

[00:06:57]>> Explain what the [ __ ] >> I mean that works. What would you say?

[00:06:59]>> It's mad.

[00:07:01]>> It's mad. All right. Next one. Ragle.

[00:07:03]Raggle.

[00:07:04]>> I have no clue what that means.

[00:07:06]>> Yeah. What does it mean? Can you explain?

[00:07:07]>> I don't know what that means.

[00:07:08]>> Ragle basically means like minor. Let's say you pay for something and it cost a lot of money. You're like, "Yeah, raggo miner. Not that deep."

[00:07:16]>> It's not that deep.

[00:07:17]>> Not that deep. Yeah.

[00:07:18]>> Yeah.

[00:07:18]>> Yeah. They ragle means not that deep.

[00:07:20]Not that deep.

[00:07:21]>> Rago that in my life.

[00:07:24]>> Well, you heard of it now. What would you say? I >> was going to say the same like it's not that deep. It's not that serious.

[00:07:30]>> What would you say?

[00:07:31]>> That's minor.

[00:07:32]>> That's minor.

[00:07:33]>> That's minor.

[00:07:34]>> How would you guys say like gamble?

[00:07:38]>> Sorry.

[00:07:38]>> You don't know what a gamble is. Gambo.

[00:07:40]>> A gamble.

[00:07:41]>> Gambo. No.

[00:07:42]>> You don't know what a gamble is?

[00:07:44]>> Everyone knows a gambo.

[00:07:44]>> You don't know what a gamble is?

[00:07:45]>> I don't know what that means.

[00:07:46]>> You don't know what a gamble is? Yo, that's crazy. Yo, is that not crazy, G?

[00:07:51]>> That's crazy. That's crazy. You can't know what a gamble is.

[00:07:53]>> Hold. Hold on. Everyone knows a gamble, right?

[00:07:55]>> You guys genuinely don't know what a gamble is. That's actually magical.

[00:07:59]>> So, do you want to explain then?

[00:08:00]>> Oh, a gamble is like, it's a forward roll. You know, like where you roll forward.

[00:08:04]>> You know what a gamble is?

[00:08:05]>> Oh, yeah. A forward roll.

[00:08:07]>> No, it's a gamble.

[00:08:08]>> What's a roll? It's not a forward roll.

[00:08:10]It's a gamble.

[00:08:11]>> It's a forwards roll.

[00:08:13]>> That is mad. Yo, people, you could. That is crazy.

[00:08:16]>> So, if you was to do a roly poly, be like, "Yeah, yeah, it's a gamble."

[00:08:20]>> Roly poly's nuts.

[00:08:22]>> It's a gamble.

[00:08:22]>> No, it's a roly pololy. Like, >> we say it's a gamble. That's >> We call it a roly poly as well.

[00:08:28]>> It's a gamble.

[00:08:29]>> Roly poly.

[00:08:30]>> It's not real.

[00:08:31]>> Not real.

[00:08:32]>> It's not real.

[00:08:33]>> That's actually made up. That's not real.

[00:08:36]>> Surely that's not real.

[00:08:37]>> It's real. Gamble is a real word. That is crazy.

[00:08:39]>> It's not even a real word. Like, it's lally highlighted red.

[00:08:43]>> Let me know down below if you've seen the word gamble. How would you guys say tiptop? Do you know what a tiptop is?

[00:08:49]>> Like the ice?

[00:08:50]>> Yeah.

[00:08:51]>> Tiptop.

[00:08:52]>> Would you call it a tiptop?

[00:08:53]>> Yeah. A tip top or an ice?

[00:08:55]>> Tiptop. Ain't it?

[00:08:56]>> Yeah.

[00:08:57]>> What would you say?

[00:08:58]>> A tip top. What?

[00:08:59]>> You don't know what a tip is?

[00:09:00]>> No.

[00:09:02]>> Ice cream. Ice lolly.

[00:09:03]>> Tiptop.

[00:09:05]>> Ice lolly. It's like a version of an ice top. It's >> like Iceland.

[00:09:09]>> I haven't heard of a tip top.

[00:09:10]>> Well, never heard of a tip top in London.

[00:09:14]>> Full of juice.

[00:09:15]>> That's like frozen.

[00:09:16]>> Say that again for the minute. Yeah.

[00:09:18]>> It's a long tube that's like full of juice. Wait.

[00:09:21]>> Wow. A long tube full of juice. That's kind of crazy. That's kind of crazy.

[00:09:26]>> All right. Yeah. It's full of frozen juice.

[00:09:30]>> A long tube full of frozen juice.

[00:09:32]Basically, Tik Toks >> like like a calypso.

[00:09:36]>> Yeah, like a push-up. No, no, but it's like thinner than that.

[00:09:40]>> It's a Tik Tok.

[00:09:41]>> I don't know. I've not heard >> obviously bap. This is the next word. A bap.

[00:09:46]>> Bap.

[00:09:47]>> Do you know what a bap is?

[00:09:48]>> Like a bacon roll.

[00:09:50]>> I wouldn't call it a bap, though.

[00:09:52]>> What would you call it?

[00:09:53]>> Like a roll.

[00:09:54]>> So, you'd call a bap. A roll? Like a bread roll?

[00:09:56]>> Yeah, like a bread roll.

[00:09:57]>> What would you call a bat?

[00:09:59]>> Could be a bap. It could be a roll. It could be a buddy.

[00:10:01]>> What would you call a bat?

[00:10:03]>> Just a roll. Just a roll.

[00:10:05]>> So you wouldn't use like bat like the terminology bat?

[00:10:07]>> No, I'd never.

[00:10:08]>> All right.

[00:10:09]>> Babby. You guys Someone So one of you guys said this like me.

[00:10:13]>> Babby. Babbie is like how we call a baby. We say a baby.

[00:10:16]>> I would just say a baby.

[00:10:19]>> Kid, baby, child.

[00:10:20]>> Not baby.

[00:10:21]>> No.

[00:10:21]>> Well, how would you say >> baby >> baby >> baby >> Oh my people, that is the end of the video. Oh yo, something new. You get me?

[00:10:31]It was a random one, but you know what?

[00:10:32]I'm on an absolute testing one. You know the void. I've got the freaking the rest of the UK right here. Big up. I appreciate you guys being in the video.

[00:10:38]What is your name?

[00:10:39]>> Mera.

[00:10:40]>> Mirror.

[00:10:41]>> How do you not know my name?

[00:10:43]>> Cuz I didn't ask. Sorry.

[00:10:46]>> Um, my name is Mel.

[00:10:48]>> Phoebe.

[00:10:49]>> I'm Phoebe. To the left hand side, we got the Londonians. And we got big up Jacob.

[00:10:53]>> What's up?

[00:10:54]>> The cameraman. The two Jacob. My name's Jacob as well.

[00:10:57]>> I'm the real Jacob. I'm the real JCO, man. I was born before you, but I my people hit that like and hit that subscribe button. All right, you know it vibes.

[00:11:12]>> You just I'm going to end the video on it.

[00:11:14]>> The birthday end you want to end it.

[00:11:18]>> Okay. Comment, like, and subscribe.