I was going to withdraw from this, but can't let this stand. The black country? The black country is the area occupied by Wolverhampton, Sandwell, Dudley and other similar places, it's certainly not Birmingham, and any Brummie would recoil with disgust about being labelled a yam-yam.
Mind you, I live in Warwick now, so don't know what that makes me.
Yow all sound the same.