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What was the name of the Birmingham girl who featured on the show regularly and often said "oi'll give it fiove"
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It is - she enjoyed her 'fifteen minutes' of fame, and is now a happily married mum.
http://www.btinternet.com/~foive/
It was a sign of the times, and the very little travel and interaction enjoyed by British people in the sixties that a Birmingham accent would be such a novelty to people elsewhere in the country, who would not have heard it before.
Similarly, The Beatles brought standard Liverpudlian slang to a worldwide audience in a way that is incomprehensible to teenagers today who see and hear other accents, national and international, on a daliy basis.
http://www.btinternet.com/~foive/
It was a sign of the times, and the very little travel and interaction enjoyed by British people in the sixties that a Birmingham accent would be such a novelty to people elsewhere in the country, who would not have heard it before.
Similarly, The Beatles brought standard Liverpudlian slang to a worldwide audience in a way that is incomprehensible to teenagers today who see and hear other accents, national and international, on a daliy basis.
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