smudge

Yes they are HD -

They're more than worth a look. Last time we had MICHAEL CHAPMAN (Editor/Producer of PUBLIC EYE ; amongst a million other things) and PETER CREGEEN (Director of SANDBAGGERS ; also amongst a million other things).

Lots of RARE screenings, a good atmosphere and the chance to help raise money for a very good cause...

Check the web page Kaleidoscope - The Classic Television Organisation

Next event 11th June.

SMUDGE

Welcome to my house. Enter freely, and of your own will...

Hell_driver

I will endevour to try and get there and maybe blow the froth of a couple.

ricey

Some N. Irish films for your delectation

Neil Jordans excellent Angel with Stephen Rea
Divorcing Jack with a good attempt at a Belfast accent by David Thewlis


Ricey

Gibbie

Thanks, Ricey.

blackcountraye

thats it arrr, ya carr bayte the black countraye can yar aer kid!!!!, too right mi mon. yo gorra ear moreavit at the flicks aye ya!!!!!!

heres a guide

aye/ayne=aint
doe=don't
warr=wasnt
daye/dayne=did not
woe=wont
ow bin ya=how are ya
a yo aurite aer kid= are you alrighte my freind
warro=hello
warrayo=what are you
carr=can't
mon=man, a freind
dayna=would not want to, "don't to"
wanna= want to
gorra= have to
gonnu=goin to
taye=tea
t'aye= it aye= it isnt
citaye=city
sond=sand
dudlaye=dudley
brumajum=birmingham
wearsal=walsall
chezzo=cheslyn hay
wearliuye= great wyrley
cann'ckk=cannock
blearknul=blakenal heath
blocko=bloxwich
sedgeluiy-sedgley
rudgelaye= rudge as in fudge= rugeley
goowin=going
wensbrye=wednesbury
t'yihptearn=tipton

Steve Crook

Have you seen the British Dialect Translator?
That includes translations from English into "Brummie" which, my friends in Birmingham tell me, is really translating things into what is more like a Black Country dialect.

It also does English into Cockney, Irish, Scouse, Geordie, Scottie, Jolly Well Spoken and you can even translate English into "Ali G"

Steve

blackcountraye

well dayna means didnt want to, we tend to say things like tye for toy. bye for boy, sond for sand, I guess your best bet for learnin the accent is to just get the tone of it, slopen up your tongue n just say tayisi startin quiet n gettin quieter at the end, n sing it, tayisi means it isnt is it
as in t'aye is i, but ya gorra join ya werds up, like if i was sayin "cya ame" i'd say seeyarame, a funny thing is that t'aye sounds like taye for tea, so ya can say t'aye taye tiuym, meanin it isnt tea time

blackcountraye

probably the biggest feature of black country twang is the ausy soundin aye for aint, its the most noticable thing, if ya do that your half way there, well sayin that the ausies copy us not the other way round!!

blackcountraye

oh and we always pronounces t's as r's but in the right places

blackcountraye

oh and we mek our r's ring like a telephone, like we hammer our tongoue to the rooof of arr mouths!!!

Steve Crook

And believe me, it's not easy to make your r's ring like a telephone!

Steve

blackcountraye

it is, RRRRRRR, relax your tongue place it lightly on the roof of your mouth to the front and breath and make it vibrate !!!!!! down south you have a tendancy to drop your r's as ahw doe ya, like alwighyte mayte alwighte gavnar cocknay geezaaa, diamond, lavalay jubalay,

samkydd

My family come from The Black Country and I remember a couple of sayings:

"We saw this blowk flowtin in the cut and we wuz frit to joth he wuz jed!"

and

"Oi went fishin' the other dye an' oi corta whale!"

"What sort of a whale?"

"A bleedin bicycle whale!"

"...the chairman of Littlewoods stores made a Keynote speech!"

Steve Crook

At least someone got the joke!

Steve

smudge

That's, "Frit to jeth" Sam Your 'jed' is correct, hence follows 'jeth'. It really is rather appalling, isn't it ?
SMUDGE

Welcome to my house. Enter freely, and of your own will...