Birminghamese
English
editEtymology
editFrom Birmingham + -ese.
Adjective
editBirminghamese (comparative more Birminghamese, superlative most Birminghamese)
- Of or relating to the city of Birmingham, England.
Proper noun
editBirminghamese
- The dialect of English language spoken in the city of Birmingham, England.
- 1974 June, Martin D. S. Braine, “On What Might Constitute Learnable Phonology”, in Language, volume 50, number 2, , page 295:
- Such a speaker not only knows which of his words with /aː/ are rendered with /æ/ in Birmingham, but also has a general expectation that words with /aː/ in RP will have either /aː/ or /æ/ in Birminghamese, but not other vowels.