Birmingham accent

In some of my research people seem to believe that Shakespeare had a influence on the birmingham accent, and also they say that he spoke in an accent similiar to the birmingham accent of today. Although this is just in theory and has not actually been proven. Many people believe that immigration form other countries had a major influence because many were employed in and around Birmingham.

Some examples of famous people with the accent is Jasper Carrot, Frank Skinner, Adrian Chiles, Bill Oddie.

Some characteristics in the brummie accent The vowels in "price" and "choice" may be almost merged as [ɒɪ] so that the two words would almost rhyme. However, the two are still distinct, unlike the Black Country dialect.
In more old-fashioned Brummie accents, the FORCE set of words takes [ʌʊə] and the PURE set takes [uːə], so both sets were in two syllables. In such an old-fashioned accent, the words paw, pour and poor would all be said differently: [pɔː], [pʌʊə], [puːə]. In more modern accents.

Some words used are:

Babby 

Variation of "baby"

Bawlin, Bawl 

To cry, as in "She started to bawl'"

Cob 

A bread roll (comes from the fact bread rolls look like street cobbles)

Donnies

Hands, "Go and wash your donnies"

Go and play up your own end 

Said to children from a different street making a nuisance. It has been used as the title of the autobiographical book and musical play about the Birmingham childhood of radio presenter and entertainer Malcolm Stent

Gunter 

To fix, work on or repair, mainly used a verb (example usage "I'm gonna gunter the car" equates to "I'm going to repair the car"), other forms include 'guntered' (example usage "the car's guntered" equates to "the car is fixed", alternate usage "I guntered the tele, but it still doesn't work" equates to "I worked on the television, but it is still broken")

Keep away from the 'oss road / Mind the 'orse road / Kip aert th'oss road 

An admonition to travel safely, originally a warning to children in the days of horse-drawn traffic. "Th'oss road" may also have referred to the towpath alongside the canals found throughout the region, which presented the additional hazard to the unwary of falling into the canal. These expressions too, are commonly attributed to Black Country dialect rather than that from Birmingham

Our Wench 

Affectionate term, meaning 'sister' or sometimes used by a husband referring to his wife

Details of the accent it is not the only accent in the west midlands as people seem to think but it is distinct from the traditional accent of the black country however, modern day population tend to blur the distinction.