Re: Black Country day

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Westbo90

Unless I'm reading it wrong... I've literally never heard anyone from the black country call a cob a batch ?

You might be right but she used the phrase - maybe she was originally from Coventry ????

Day 2 I asked her about Caldmore in my Brummie reading of the word - got that wrong .

Caldmore? So you meant carma. Working in Walsall then?

As for batch I know a few cafés local that sold a breakfast batch. It was pretty much a full English on a larger version of a bap .

I always thought cob was cold fillings and bap was hot filling round our way?

Going back to the pronunciation of Caldmore in Walsall, it helped catch Raymond Morris back in the late 60s who at the time was the wanted man in Britain's biggest man hunt at the time.

Because he pronounce it carma when he abducted one of his victims, they knew they were looking for a local man.

But then again outside of Walsall and cannock no one is aware of Raymond Morris and the crimes he committed.