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This article could mention the partial o/a merger, so ‘man/hand/hammer’ are ‘mon/ond/omma’ and ‘drop/shop’ are ‘drap/shap’, the twangy vowels that make words like ‘roll’, ‘phone’ and ‘time’ have two syllables in many speakers, and the way that pairs of words like ‘meet’ and ‘meat’ and ‘great’ and ‘grate’ don’t rhyme for many speakers. Overlordnat1 (talk) 23:07, 4 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
This article at one point claims that ‘yam yam’ means someone from the Black Country and at another point claims that it means someone from Wolverhampton specifically. It is also internally inconsistent in claiming that ‘yam yam’ definitively comes from ‘yow am’ in one place and that it may come from either ‘yow am’ or ‘ye am’ in another place.
Of course I have no objection to the claim that people from the Black Country are called ‘yam yams’ being unsourced as it’s so blatantly obvious it doesn’t need it, it’s much like saying that grass is green, but a third claim that Black Country folk are called ‘yam yams’ has just been deleted without a reason given by an editor - I hope it was just because it was making the article too repetitive but I worry that it was because the claim was unsourced, making me worry how long the obviously true claim that ‘yam yam’ means Black Country dialect speaker (though it sometimes just means someone who was born in, or is a resident of, the Black Country without even being a dialect speaker) will survive. By the way, the claim that the use of this word is limited to residents of Wolverhampton only is simply untrue. Overlordnat1 (talk) 00:47, 30 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
