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For such a small country, the United Kingdom has an incredible
diversity of regional dialects, many specific to individual
cities. Some of these are melodious and pleasing to the ear.
Some are bizarre, some sound awkward and guttural, and some - to
non-natives - seem completely incomprehensible (many English
people have great difficulty understanding Glaswegian, for
example - a very strong Scottish accent). Of all the dialects
spoken in the British Isles, however, the one which seems to
attract the most scorn is that spoken in and around the city of
Birmingham.  Why Birmingham?  Quite why this should be the case
may at first seem unclear. The Birmingham accent - nicknamed
'Brummie' - is neither guttural nor difficult to understand.
Unlike other UK dialects (Geordie1 or Glaswegian, for example)
Brummie does not have a large collection of specifically local
words which might alienate non-Bir