Now Black Country Windows
A new craze has hit computers across the world – Winders, a joke version of Windows for the Black Country.
Winders has had thousands of hits on YouTube and has been turned into an email that has been circulated to ex-pats around the world.
In Winders, folders for documents are called "Awl my stuff" and the help character has been named "Aer Kid."
Aer Kid tells the user: "Awlright, ah bist? Am yow stuck? If yow cor do summat just click me and ask a question."
Winders explains the help character by saying: "'E may be just a babby but Aer Kid am bostin at 'elpin when yow'm flummoxed by computers."
In Winders the accept button has been changed to "Awlroight" while the decline button is "Fergeddit."
The safety warning says: "They'm some wrong uns on the internet. If yow ay sure yow can trust the source just dae save it." Winders is believed to have been created by a man from Haden Hill in Sandwell.
Black Country wordsmith Dave Bartley believes Winders is popular because the accent is seen as humourous.
Dave, aged 52, from Bilston, said: "With our slow, drawn-out accent we have always been depicted as the village idiot – such as Benny in Crossroads.
"Our accent may not have the charm of say the Welsh or Yorkshire ones, but we are still keen to keep it alive. We often worry that it is becoming diluted because too many youngsters watch programmes with American and Australian accents.
"I think that secretly Londoners are scared of us because we will always have the best position in the country as we are at the centre – so they find it easier to poke fun at us and laugh at our funny accent.
"Luckily, people in the Black Country have always been able to laugh at themselves and quite enjoy people taking the mickey out of their accent."
In Winders there are three options for download speed, the first is "Tek it easy" the second is "Not too slow, I ay got all noight" while the third is "Gie it sum 'omer we'm on Broadbond".
Of course, like all computer programmes, Winders can hit a few technical problems and when the notice comes up saying: "Winders has encountered an unexpected error and will 'ave ter close".
The three options are: "Awlroight", "Fergeddit" and "It wor me, I dae do it".
