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Originally Posted by Dezzy

I do know my accent thank you very much, you don't need to bring Wikipedia into it. With the exception of the vocabulary, The Black Country accent is quite similar to the Brummie accent. If you talk to an older person though you can really tell the difference. I don't like being called a Brummie as I'm not but I accept that nowadays the accents are similar.

Oh no, they're not :

If someone speaks with a strong Brummie accent then they are often percieved as not very bright or as one academic research suggests - a police suspect with a Brummie accent sounds guilty!

Unfortunately this stigma applies to the Black Country accent too. Speakers from Wolverhampton, Dudley or Walsall are often assumed to be Brummies by default whereas in reality the accents are different.

http://www.birminghamuk.com/birminghamaccent.html