Birminghamese

English

Etymology

Birmingham +‎ -ese

Adjective

Birminghamese (comparative more Birminghamese, superlative most Birminghamese)

  1. Of or relating to the city of Birmingham, England.
    • 2001, Annette Willoughby, Innocent in Africa, Authors OnLine, →ISBN, page 201:
      Annie was no different. With her generous Birminghamese attitude, she laid out two dozen candles.

Proper noun

Birminghamese

  1. 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, →DOI, 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.
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