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Topic: Black Country English

	Black Country - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Black Country is a loosely-defined area of conurbation to the north and west of Birmingham, and to the south and east of Wolverhampton in the English West Midlands, around the South Staffordshire coalfield.
		The Black Country lies in the traditional counties of Staffordshire and Worcestershire.
		By Victorian times, the Black Country was one of the most heavily industrialised areas in Britain, and it became known for its pollution, particularly from iron and coal industries and many associated smaller businesses.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Black_Country (836 words)

	Georgia (country) - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Georgia (Georgian: საქართველო Sakartvelo), known from 1991 to 1995 as the Republic of Georgia, is a country to the east of the Black Sea in the southern Caucasus.
		Two Georgian Kingdoms of late antiquity, Iberia in the east of the country and Egrisi in the west, were among the first nations in the world to adopt Christianity (In 337 AD and 523 AD, respectively.) Iberia soon became a part of the Persian Empire.
		The country staged the first democratic multiparty elections in the Soviet Union on October 28, 1990.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /georgia_(country).htm (1943 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Black Country
		The Black Country is an area of conurbation to the north and west of Birmingham in the English West Midlands, around the South Staffordshire coal field.
		Apart from the area covered by Wolverhampton City Council, the metropolitan boroughs of Sandwell, Dudley and Walsall administer most of the communities in the Black Country.
		Black country "folk" as they are called are very proud, and resist hints at any relationship to people living in Birmingham, calling Birmingham "Brum-a-jum" (Birmingham's colloquial name is Brummagem).
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Black_Country (891 words)

	Black Power/Black English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Unfortunately, Black English was not recast as representing the culture from which slaves initially came, the diverse community and social structures on the African continent.
		That is, she is participating in the transformation of fl speech from a language of cultural deficiency to a legitimate form of political speech.
		It was not just that Black English, as a concept, acted as a corrective to the linguistic strategies and paradigms previously used, but that its acceptance by academics gave credence to the idea of different linguistic groups existing in the country.
	astro.temple.edu /~sparkss/blackenglish.htm (10676 words)

	Black Country Observatory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Black Country Connexions is a partnership of organisations and agencies working together to support young people during their teenage years.
		The Black Country Consortium, a public, private and voluntary sector partnership was established in January 1999 as the vehicle to address the need to prepare for a regionalised approach to development and regeneration matters.
		The Black Country Study is a dynamic study to develop the long term renaissance of the whole of the Black Country (i.e.
	www.blackcountryobservatory.co.uk /partners.asp (1029 words)

	Black Country Tourism
		For beer lovers, the glory of Great Britain is cask-conditioned ale, the preferred drink of workers in the Black Country during the 19th Century, who drank gallons of it as a restorative after long hours in coal mines and iron foundries.
		This 'restorative' is ever popular in pubs all over the Black Country including The Falcon Inn in Willenhall, a traditional back street Black Country pub, built in 1935, with 8 hand pulled cask beers served in oversize glasses that will guarantee the customer a full measure every time.
		Black Country Tourism will not be held responsible for any loss, damage or inconvenience caused as a result of any inaccuracy or error within these pages.
	www.blackcountrytourism.co.uk /nightime.htm (788 words)

	languagehat.com: BLACK ENGLISH.
		Black English is probably the most remote from Congolese River Patois due to years of isolation and the efforts of both well- and ill-intentioned reformers, but I believe that contemporary Jamaican Patois and Congolese Patois are still mutually intellegible.
		Black English, as far as I understood from reading the above very informative comments, is a remnant of ambassador language and at the same time is a tongue of poverty, ghetto and segregation.
		Black English, on the other hand, is what many fls speak natively, and in terms of both pride and ease of learning Standard English it makes sense to teach Black English as a self-contained system of communication.
	www.languagehat.com /archives/001544.php (7818 words)

	Black Country Music: Crossing Country
		Blacks sang the same religious musics as whites, most of it written by Methodist ministers from England and brought to this country by missionaries.
		Though fls were simultaneously developing their own music- the blues- at the time, this disc leaves no doubt that many fls and whites were then playing the same music.
		While the first disc shows fls and whites sometimes sharing songs and styles, the second one presents soul singers putting their own horn-laden sound to tunes that were first done with fiddlers and pedal steels.
	www.furious.com /perfect/blackcountry.html (1613 words)

	Living in the Black Country (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Black Country is an area that is located to the west of Birmingham.
		Either way, the Black Country proved to be an area which was the very pinnacle of revolution in England at the time.
		Nowadays, the Black Country is a thriving part of Central England, still maintaining it's important focus on Industry.
	www.blackcountrylass.co.uk /blackcountry.htm (232 words)

	BBC - Black Country Have Your Say - Are you proud of the Black Country accent? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The people from the Black Country are the friendliest I've ever met, and I know wherever I go if I hear the distinctive accent, I'll meet someone whose nice to know.
		There ai't many blokes moore fl country than me. My Grandad was on the chain and anchor forging gangs that med the anchors and chairn fu the Titanic, up at Noah Hingley's.
		I hadn't heard this word for years, having left the Black Country more than 30 years ago, and probably assumed it was a normal English word rather than dialect, until I saw this.
	www0.bbc.co.uk /blackcountry/have_your_say/accents/accents.shtml (1728 words)

	Education \| Wolverhampton researches Black Country dialect
		The much-mocked Black Country accent is to get serious academic scrutiny with a research project at the University of Wolverhampton.
		Dr Urszula Clark, principal lecturer in English at the university, said she hoped a part-time PhD studentship, sponsored by the Black Country Society to the tune of £2,000, to research the area's dialect and writing would help to counteract its unfashionable image.
		The Black Country accent has a stigma attached to it - as if it was somehow not as valid as standard English.
	education.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4592389-108229,00.html (380 words)

	Black Country Christian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The questions, answers and discoveries of a young Jesus-loving student from a locally famous (or infamous) industrial town in the heart of the english 'Black Country.' Loves include: the afore mentioned Son of God, all things Black Country, Walsall FC, my girlfriend, and my family-both immediate and Church.
		This guy is 'sound as a pound'(as we'd say in the Black Country), but it'd be great if he could understand that not eceryone shares his enthusiasm, or even knowledge of obscure Bible trivia.
		Black Country Christian is very much looking forward to finishing the final year of a joint honours degree at uni!
	blackcountrychristian.blogspot.com (8780 words)

	Black English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Host intro: The Oakland, California, School Board has decided to treat Ebonics, or fl English as a second language that teachers would have to recognize in their overall English curriculum.
		Conservative Thomas Sowell says so-called fl English is nothing more than the surviving relic of a sub-standard dialect that 19th-century Englishmen would recognize.
		Black kids, especially poor and undereducated ones, have too many unavoidable roadblocks between themselves and success.
	www.ncpa.org /~ncpa/oped/dupont/speech/blackenglish.html (271 words)

	The Black Country Bugle Newspaper(voice of the Black Country)
		The term "Black Country" came from the days of the industrial revolution when the skies in and around my hometown of Dudley were fl with the smoke from the Iron and Steel furnaces.
		For those having ancestral ties within The Black Country and wish to know more about the lives and times they lived in, the "Black Country Bugle" is by far the best source of information on hand and I strongly recommend that you subscribe to this wonderful newspaper.
		Due to copyright restrictions no stories, articles, photographs, features or the name "Black Country Bugle" may be copied or used without obtaining prior permission from the Editor.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Olympus/4029/bugle.htm (1018 words)

	Black Country Triathletes
		Black Country Triathletes - Home of the Midlands premier triathlon club, with a history dating back to the very early days of Triathlon in the United Kingdom.
		Black Country Triathletes are also one of the most active clubs in the UK when it comes to organizing races.
		Additionally, Black Country Triathletes also organizes a junior race each year, which is part of the West Midlands Junior series.
	www.blackcountrytriathletes.co.uk (185 words)

	West Brom/Wolves: Optimism Sighted in the Black Country (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Pessimism is the natural state of the Black Country supporter but each set of fans had every reason to be mired in despair before Christmas.
		Both clubs had lost managers who had been inspirational in their time at the Hawthorns and Molineux- Albion appeared certainties for a drop to the Championship and Wolves were mired in the lower reaches after being demoted last season.
		Black Country fans rarely agree on much, but they will concur that it is time that the West Midlands clawed back to its traditional place in the game.
	www.squarefootball.net /article/article.asp?aid=2028 (747 words)

	The Black Bull, Escrick,York - country inn
		The Black Bull is a traditional cottage-style inn located in the idyllic village of Escrick, five miles south of York, just off the A19.
		The heart of the Black Bull is the kitchen, where we work hard to make your meal tasty, memorable and excellent value for money.
		The Black Bull is open seven days a week, lunchtimes and evenings.
	www.english-inns.co.uk /BlackBull/index.htm (159 words)

	Conrad Black English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Jews, according to Taki, have suborned the US government, direct that country's military like a docile attack dog, and glory in the murder of innocent or mischievous children.
		It was pathetic and shaming that many of the distinguished leaders of London's Jewish community felt the need to tell me last week, after local performances of the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, that they hoped that 'people will realise that Israel doesn't just quell Palestinian riots'.
		All Israel really wants is to be like other countries, to be accepted in the world as a people with dignity and a right to a state.
	www.chretiens-et-juifs.org /article.php?voir[]=180&voir[]=5781 (1611 words)

	ENGLISH ENCYCLOPAEDIA - Black Country Living Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Black Country Living Museum is located in Dudley in the West Midlands in England.
		The museum occupies a twenty six acre urban heritage park in the shadow of Dudley Castle in the centre of the Black Country conurbation of two million people.
		Electric trams and trolleybuses transport visitors from the entrance in a recreated factory to the village area with thirty buildings situated by the canal basin.
	encyclopaedic.net /english/bl/black_country_living_museum.html (253 words)

	Black Country Links
		Black Country Chamber is a membership organisation, offering a range of business support services and networking opportunities designed to meet the needs of owners and managers.
		Welcome to the only website dedicated to the life and ministry of Bishop Francis Asbury (1745-1816), the Methodist preacher from the Black Country of England who evangelised the frontier and transformed the United States of America.
		Site dedicated to the public art to be found on the Black Country route by David Scott.
	www.blackcountrysociety.co.uk /links.htm (1148 words)

	Black Country Consortium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The four local authorities of the Black Country, Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton, were instrumental in setting up Black Country Consortium.
		They saw the need to engage the private sector and other public bodies in decisions, which affect the whole community and are fully supportive of the Consortium’s aims and objectives.
		It is one of eight English Regional Development Agencies (RDA's) established by the UK Government in April 1999.
	www.blackcountryconsortium.co.uk /partners.asp (423 words)

	BBC - Black Country Features - The best English Breakfast search
		The Full English Breakfast has to be one of, if not the best meal in the world.
		In the category for breakfast, the nation has voted the Full English Breakfast its favourite food in a poll by BBC Food.
		Find out more on what activities are available for a fun-filled family day out in the Black Country area.
	www6.thdo.bbc.co.uk /blackcountry/features/2003/04/breakfast.shtml (398 words)

	Black Country Living Museum Info Panel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Canals were the lifeline of Black Country industry in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
		The canal tunnels under the limestone hills in the area are some of the longest in the country.
		She was one of six iron boats in the fleet fitted with two cabins for long distance traffic between the Black Country and the ports on the Mersey estuary.
	content.blackcountry.com /bclm/pop25.html (771 words)

	ENGLISH ENCYCLOPAEDIA - Black Country Urban Forest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Black Country (the part of the West Midlands conurbation consisting of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton, but excluding Birmingham) was the 'forge' of the Industrial Revolution, and the legacy of this was huge areas of derelict land.
		Despite setbacks, and problems with achieving all the projected outputs the project was essentially successful, and the concept of the BCUF continues.
		As well as tree planting and woodland mangagement, woodland based businesses were supported, events and activities organised to engage local communities and studies were carried out of the area's biodiversity.
	encyclopaedic.net /english/bl/black_country_urban_forest.html (651 words)

	Black Country Living Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This group of volunteers supports the Museum in the preservation and operation of the steam narrowboat President and its un-powered butty boat Kildare.
		Group members both maintain and operate the boat and its steam plant and undertake a number of trips around the English canal system throughout the year to promote the Museum, President, and the National Canal System.
		During 2001 President underwent a major programme of restoration which was completed in 2002 with the installation of a new engine.
	content.blackcountry.com /bclm/friendsofpres.htm (80 words)

	Black Country Food Festival
		The area, which got its name when the area was ‘fl’ from the concentration of coal-mining and heavy industry which has now disappeared, is also known for The Pie Factory, Tipton.
		Many of the Black Country’s attractions are free of charge — notably the recently opened New Art Gallery, Walsall with its works by Picasso and Van Gogh.
		Admission to the Black Country Living Museum is £8.25.
	www.britainexpress.com /ticker/archives/00000007.htm (300 words)

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