[BaggieSteve]

any foreign manger would have to get used to the black country lingo
a german spaking black cuntry  i dow fink sow

Not actually true Quantum, actually there are many similarities between the Black County Dialect and high German.

As an example "bist thee goo-in" - "are you going".  "Bist" in hi German means "are".

If Pollyanna Jones, author of; The Black Country - Last Haven of the Mercian Tongue, is to be believed , around 80% of words used by speakers of Black Country dialect are Germanic, compared to supposedly 26% for the rest of modern English.

Here is a BBC article which had been condensed from a paper based on research at Manchester University http://www.bbc.co.uk/blackcountry/conten...ture.shtml

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