Languages in the West Midlands, UK

[purpletigron]

I'm tired. I can't make Google work properly.

Does anyone have statistics for the languages spoken in the West Midlands? Thanks!

I think I need to eat...

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[infinitemonkeys.livejournal.com]

cruising by from friendsfriends...

http://www.imdiversity.com/villages/global/Article_Detail.asp?Article_ID=161
This may help you draw an intelligent inference, but would require extrapolation and possibly maths which is never fun.

ONS may be able to help you, if you are willing to spelunk on the census site
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/annexb.asp

And this makes me laugh:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=297

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Hi there :-)

I'm OK at maths, so that imdiversity link looks very promising. The ONS link to `Languages spoken at home' seemed to be duff. I also found the Jedi thing, and was heartened at the positive tone...

[akicif.livejournal.com]

And once again a gov.uk site, claiming to cover the UK, leaves out Scotland and Northern Ireland.... But it's a neat site, anyway, so thanks for the pointer.

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

There are links to Scotland and Northern Ireland around on the site, which were coming up as options when I used their search facility.

[akicif.livejournal.com]

Yes, but if you search for Jedi in any of the Scottish or Norn Iron bits, you get remarkably little, and nothing like the table for Jedis in Englandnwales.

And then there's the peeve contained in this little gem:

About sixteen per cent of the UK population stated that they had no religion. This category included agnostics, atheists, heathens and those who wrote Jedi Knight

No Wiccans, no generic pagans, even.

What?!?

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Oh, I share your dischuff.

I'd not noticed the use of the word `heathen'. If you are inclined to organise a campaign on this one, count me in.

Re: What?!?

[akicif.livejournal.com]

I'd been going to rush off and mention it in assorted mailing lists and news groups, only to discover that it's slightly old news. Guess I should pay more attention!