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  • "There's no 'l' on the end of it." "There is when you speak Bristol, mate!"
    A Nationwide reporter roams the streets of Bristol armed with a giant cue card, hoping to detect some of the unique vocal idiosyncrasies of Bristolians.
    Originally broadcast 1 February, 1977.
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  • @felicitybywater8012
    @felicitybywater8012 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    I genuinely love accents. Each & every accent is made by the history of its place.

  • @zillie8167
    @zillie8167 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    When we moved to Keynsham (just up the road from Bristol) in the 1970s, i remember someone in church reading from the 'book of Isaiahl'. It still makes me smile now, after 50 years

    • @Jamesdark2011
      @Jamesdark2011 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It’s in Bristol. You mean it’s up the road from the city

  • @robertbarnett3985
    @robertbarnett3985 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    A student I was teaching referred to the Colosseum in Rome as "one of they gert gladiater rings"

  • @katiesimms5720
    @katiesimms5720 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I work in a pub in Bristol and quite often the older locals will ask for a Vodkal and coke.

    • @shaneraines2094
      @shaneraines2094 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Vodkal lan co coal co la!!!

  • @dannydougin3925
    @dannydougin3925 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    1:21 Handsome man who looks like my favorite, late uncle.

  • @soup_pigeon
    @soup_pigeon ปีที่แล้ว +19

    i saw this clip a while ago now. it's funny how the accent has changed over time (and this is mostly what peoples grans sound like now)

    • @aoiseodwyer
      @aoiseodwyer ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My gran still did that with certain words even though she left Bristol in 1945 🤗

    • @MrDaiseymay
      @MrDaiseymay ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@aoiseodwyer Wow, that beats me, ( I mean it beat's I ) lived in brissul and north zomerset for most of my life, but locals still say, yor not from these parrts are de ? because I was born in , and lived in Brum for 15 yrs. I'm a' forrrinor' see.

  • @hilaryepstein6013
    @hilaryepstein6013 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    British accents are wonderful aren't they. Perhaps the city should be renamed Bristo.

    • @buxycat
      @buxycat ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Aaaaaah, Bristo

    • @hilaryepstein6013
      @hilaryepstein6013 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@buxycat 😊

    • @garryleeks4848
      @garryleeks4848 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Love a country bumpkin accent

    • @robinvanags912
      @robinvanags912 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Especially at Christmas time.

    • @markiliff
      @markiliff ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Historically it was written Bricstow. First instance with a final L dates from 1204. So the dialect appears to have driven the orthography

  • @goffyglos5675
    @goffyglos5675 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Heard a Bristolian plumber ask for a: 'fermolcouple for a forn boilol' (thermocouple for a thorn boiler)

    • @garryleeks4848
      @garryleeks4848 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Did he get one 😂

    • @Barefoot_Joe
      @Barefoot_Joe ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@garryleeks4848 He'd already had a couple ;)

    • @goffyglos5675
      @goffyglos5675 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@garryleeks4848 fink so!

    • @garryleeks4848
      @garryleeks4848 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Barefoot_Joe That’s alright then 👍

    • @danisyx5804
      @danisyx5804 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@garryleeks4848s'alright?

  • @YoshiPipez
    @YoshiPipez ปีที่แล้ว +8

    My dad had a close mate from Bristol back in the day and he spent that much time with him he started putting L on the end of everything! (From Lancashire via Malta originally)

  • @SpecialJay
    @SpecialJay ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Ah, beautiful Brista. Love it.

  • @BischBaschBosch
    @BischBaschBosch 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That radio dj referring to her sister "gert Glorial" (Gloria). Brings back happy memories of Bristol. One lad I worked with preceded just about everything he said with "gert"😂😂

  • @Jamesdark2011
    @Jamesdark2011 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I live in Keynsham in Bristol. About 4 miles from the City. The more south you are the stronger the accent it seems

  • @danorthsidemang3834
    @danorthsidemang3834 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I had a teacher in 5th grade who always pronounced "idea" like "ideal". She was born in Bristol.

  • @EllieGoddard-rh7jc
    @EllieGoddard-rh7jc 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Iam Bristolian I was born there iam currently studying dialects in English history a level really fascinating how different people sound.

  • @willowbrooke1215
    @willowbrooke1215 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I am a NZer and I love this channel!

  • @buxvan
    @buxvan ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I love regional accents.

  • @livingintheforest3963
    @livingintheforest3963 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I Love the 1970’s!!!❤

    • @welshlad6427
      @welshlad6427 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yes 70s we’re the best ❤

  • @teacakelake5098
    @teacakelake5098 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    beautiful!

  • @SuzLa1
    @SuzLa1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Up north they say many things similar to Scandinavia, such as bairn for child.

  • @jamesmacdonald3090
    @jamesmacdonald3090 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm a Brizzol boy who lived there during the 1980s. It is a Marmite accent, not as harsh as the Devonian accent where I ended up for most of my 20-30s, my Girlfriend at the time was broad Bristolian and a heavy Zider drinker..... "Zider I up Landlord!" Now live in Lincolnshire where everything is pronounced differently to the signage..... local Pub is the Barley Meeeoooow rather than Mow and the old boys are hard to understand at times.

  • @paulwindsor4256
    @paulwindsor4256 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The old girl 20 secs in is classic bristol. I don't mean the accent, which she is, but that jutting of the jaw, obvious belligerence, yet still remaining passive-aggressive when she realises the posh lad is taking the piss is the sound of my childhood.( I love this video, but that blokes solo bits to camera are all up the hill near the bbc studios and bridge, only going into broad mead for the vox.)

  • @Red-Revolution708
    @Red-Revolution708 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great.

  • @frankie3041
    @frankie3041 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    So they’ve been fooling us all along! The city’s actually called BRISTO. 🤦🏻‍♂

  • @invisiblehandofadamsmith
    @invisiblehandofadamsmith ปีที่แล้ว

    amazing heheh

  • @Red-Revolution708
    @Red-Revolution708 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Yeah Cardiff and Bristol sound alike.

    • @MN-kp2lm
      @MN-kp2lm 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Cardiff has similarities to Liverpool accent i find.

  • @davedogge2280
    @davedogge2280 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    It just proves that Snoop Dogg is from Bristol, lets say it with the 'izzle' with da 'snizzle'.

  • @Minstrel88
    @Minstrel88 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You can hear where the American accent comes from

  • @migrated2023
    @migrated2023 ปีที่แล้ว

    Proper girt lush that .....

  • @seanrm
    @seanrm ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Krek waiter's peak Bristle

  • @SkruffyPretzals
    @SkruffyPretzals ปีที่แล้ว +1

    1:55 she's summerset not Bristol, completely different accent lol

  • @banksiasong
    @banksiasong 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Give us Bristolian before RP any day.

  • @welshlad6427
    @welshlad6427 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    When Bristol was great.

  • @jaydenkim321
    @jaydenkim321 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Their accent kinda sounds like American accent

  • @1968lr
    @1968lr หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ee assent bin asked bissent?
    Arc at ee!

  • @ungenbunyon5548
    @ungenbunyon5548 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I sound nothing like the "prima Donna" speil, I'm not used to hearing the L added on to the end. I was born here an lived here all me life.
    Ps I was so hoping in vain that id see someone I know, my mother was 1 when this was filmed

    • @WizzardJC
      @WizzardJC ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My great uncle Roy sounded like this, doctorl he would say haha

  • @f10n4
    @f10n4 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Plot twist: what if it’s actually Brista and it only sounds like Bristol because of the accent.

  • @tennysonfordblackbird2087
    @tennysonfordblackbird2087 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great old film of Bristolians and not the modern hooligans.

  • @dickwhite977
    @dickwhite977 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Yes but wot about your hairstyle mate

  • @heinkle1
    @heinkle1 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Has this survived to 2022?

    • @ctmpodcast6901
      @ctmpodcast6901 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Not really, no

    • @thehole4472
      @thehole4472 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It's slowly going as generations change. Older Bristolians still have a twang but its getting less and less. If you walk around Easton or St Pauls you might get a Bristolian al added on your Jamaican patois. Bristol is cultural melting pot so the accents change but its all good fun

    • @NoFaceOrGun
      @NoFaceOrGun ปีที่แล้ว

      The ers and ars are still there. I still say idea-l. But it's mostly a holdover for saying among bristolians. Not many natives with strong dialects nowadays.

    • @ShinyBS4
      @ShinyBS4 ปีที่แล้ว

      The stigmatising well under here. This time done in a humorous, patronising way. No other region (even Birmingham) has been so effectively stripped of its regional identity. You do still hear a ghost of the accent now amongst older residents, but none of the dialect. 50-60 years of having anything “Bristolian” repeated back in an exaggerated manner, means only any socially unaware young people still grow up with the accent. And even then, will be judged by their city folk who don’t. 😢

    • @beabristow2939
      @beabristow2939 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's still around in some ways. All my older family members have very strong Bristolian accents, and parts of that have been passed down but some of it has been lost. My northern friends all say I have a very noticeable Bristolian accent but compared to my grandpa it's nothing.

  • @Getagrip1942
    @Getagrip1942 ปีที่แล้ว

    What happened was drove all there for that them there fella in brisitolll

  • @PompeyBoy66
    @PompeyBoy66 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It's a sexy accent.

  • @al1665
    @al1665 ปีที่แล้ว

    Did any of the actors from Skins speak like this?

    • @billydeeuk
      @billydeeuk ปีที่แล้ว +1

      None of them were from Bristol

    • @chrisware9265
      @chrisware9265 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@billydeeuk Sid was. Worked in the old Topman in the mid 2000s

    • @ShinyBS4
      @ShinyBS4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No, the accent and dialect are stymatised. Programmes like this helped that. They’re mocking. You still hear it here & there, on older people. Or younger who aren’t socially aware. It’s socially acceptable to mimic any use the accent in an exaggerated way, to the users face. So that they know it is wrong. Nowadays the accent is a mix of received pronounciation moderated with Estuarine (London) characteristics. Think Dermot O’Leary or Lily Allen. Hence it not being heard in Skins.

    • @Lekirius
      @Lekirius ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ShinyBS4 only Sid and Max speaks Bristol, and some of the older characters. Might find more speakers in rural areas.

    • @ShinyBS4
      @ShinyBS4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Lekirius In rural areas? Wouldn’t be a Bristol accent then!

  • @harrybrown4952
    @harrybrown4952 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    So the word Bristol must have been Bristor

    • @vladyslavpidlisnyi
      @vladyslavpidlisnyi 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It was closer to Bristow

    • @skylark6167
      @skylark6167 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@vladyslavpidlisnyiisn't it still?

  • @djo-dji6018
    @djo-dji6018 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    But they speak perfect standard English when they sing la la la la la la...

  • @shaneraines2094
    @shaneraines2094 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Big Eva culd talk filf to I aw day if she wants!!!

  • @KarmasAbutch
    @KarmasAbutch ปีที่แล้ว +1

    BRISTO

  • @ashleybevis9769
    @ashleybevis9769 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Or brizAl 😂

  • @MrDaiseymay
    @MrDaiseymay ปีที่แล้ว

    DE CASSENT SPEEK ENNGLISH ROIGHT, CASS? BORN IN BRUM, I MOVED TO BRISSUL, AT 15. THEY COULDN'T UNDERSTAND ME, NOR I THEY, EITHER.😀

  • @LalliaOsa-ot7mq
    @LalliaOsa-ot7mq 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Other fannigan

  • @damianolandi5003
    @damianolandi5003 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Almost 60 years later, Bristolian accent is TOTALLY different yet still unintelligible.

  • @eedobee
    @eedobee ปีที่แล้ว

    Illiteracy.

    • @richardsawyer5428
      @richardsawyer5428 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Bristolians don't talk funny, everyone else does.

    • @Jack-et5wg
      @Jack-et5wg ปีที่แล้ว

      Illteralllraceallllcyy? Woz that mucks?

    • @Mayblossomtree
      @Mayblossomtree ปีที่แล้ว

      Dialects evolve from speech, not reading. Perhaps it's you that's illiterate, and not these fair folk?

    • @skylark6167
      @skylark6167 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      These people are perfectly literate, that's how they're reading.
      I think it's kinda sad we all speak the same now, the variety of accents were a wonderful bit of local culture, a bit of spice to communication, something to share and learn about when you travel.