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Birminghamese en · ADJ

Etymology

From Birmingham + -ese.

Meanings

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

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Birminghamese en · PROPN

Etymology

From Birmingham + -ese.

Meanings

  1. The dialect of English language spoken in the city of Birmingham, England.
    • 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. 1974 June, Martin D. S. Braine, “On What Might Constitute Learnable Phonology”, in Language, volume 50, number 2, →DOI, page 295: