The Bristol Accent

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  • Опубликовано: 30 окт 2024

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  • @Charliebird87
    @Charliebird87 6 лет назад +487

    Maybe the city was originally supposed to be"Brista" but got to be pronounced "Bristol" 😄

    • @Bristolianwolfgames
      @Bristolianwolfgames 5 лет назад +57

      the city was originally named "brigstow" ^-^

    • @zarzamora9240
      @zarzamora9240 5 лет назад

      @@Bristolianwolfgames 😯

    • @factstrumpprejudice6740
      @factstrumpprejudice6740 4 года назад +3

      Nuffin like a bunch of Gladiolials, Bigonials and Dalials ..... gurt lush me luvers

    • @quantumdino
      @quantumdino 4 года назад +1

      We are Anglo Saxons mixed with a bit of celt.

    • @nickh4280
      @nickh4280 4 года назад +12

      Brigg - Bridge
      Stow - River (?)
      Briggstow + accent = Bristow
      Bristow + English grammar = Bristol.
      The more you know....know lets go to Asdul!

  • @Javer80
    @Javer80 4 года назад +187

    "Ah, there is when you speak Bristol, mate" Not a beat missed. He's hilarious

    • @l_j_c_5397
      @l_j_c_5397 3 года назад +5

      My auntie's father

  • @bezoticallyyours83
    @bezoticallyyours83 3 года назад +77

    I like the Bristol accent. Its charming. But then, England seems to have lotsa charming accents.

    • @2jcward
      @2jcward 3 года назад +2

      It sounds American to me

    • @WesleyB-Rook
      @WesleyB-Rook Год назад

      @@2jcward wait really? Where are you from that the Bristol accent sounds American? Haha

    • @fluorescentadolescent2640
      @fluorescentadolescent2640 Год назад

      ​@@WesleyB-Rook probably not a native english speaker, the first time i heard the irish accent it sounded american to me lol

    • @WesleyB-Rook
      @WesleyB-Rook Год назад

      @@fluorescentadolescent2640 see that’s actually not a crazy thing tho. The Irish accent is probably the closest accent to our American accent. A watered down Irish accent sounds incredibly similar to our northern accent 😅

    • @DanielMyles-d1y
      @DanielMyles-d1y Год назад

      @@WesleyB-Rookmost Americans are decendents from the Irish

  • @ThePsycoDolphin
    @ThePsycoDolphin 3 года назад +69

    I live in Bristol, and I've never heard anyone speak as strongly as the old lady. The younger lady at the end I've have heard alot though. Just shows you in a generation or two how far it's already been muted. Back in the 19th century is must have been incomprehensible.

    • @Jamesdark2011
      @Jamesdark2011 Год назад

      The younger generations don’t really sound as intense as the older lady in the video but they still exist. My next door neighbour is in her 90s and was born in Bristol city centre and grew up in the city. She has the most intense Bristol accent you’ll ever hear.

  • @kamelmebhah4122
    @kamelmebhah4122 5 лет назад +63

    I love Bristol the people are friendly. Have been in Bristol for over 32 years.

  • @ChattyCinnamon
    @ChattyCinnamon 5 лет назад +28

    Wow this old footage is incredible

  • @Fyrmer
    @Fyrmer 2 года назад +9

    Imagine your 18th century sailing ship being chased down by the notorious pirate ship _Queen Anne's Revenge_ and Edward "Blackbeard" Teach boards your vessel, beard all a-smolder, cutlass in hand, and then the starts talking to you in this accent.

  • @Mllmllmo
    @Mllmllmo 5 лет назад +35

    my nan calls Asda 'asdawl"

  • @shakespearefreak-upon-Avon
    @shakespearefreak-upon-Avon 3 года назад +17

    I love the Bristol accent ♥️

  • @johnbeaven8951
    @johnbeaven8951 3 года назад +20

    The guy with the heavy specs; that is pure 100% Bristolian; very rarely heard these days unfortunately. An accent of it's own and distinct form any other West Country form. No actor on TV has come close to pulling that off; whenever you get a so called 'Bristol' character the result is usually shocking; more akin to Cornish which is 200 miles away.

    • @ZhangK71
      @ZhangK71 2 года назад

      Bristol is 200 miles away from Cornwall? As an American, I did not know the distances were that great in the southwest of England. 200 miles-that’s a third of the way from the Straits of Dover to the Scottish Highlands!

    • @jw7073
      @jw7073 2 года назад

      Cornwall is not 200 miles away from Bristol 😭

    • @nwahnerevar9398
      @nwahnerevar9398 2 года назад +2

      as someone from Norfolk it's good to see that we're not alone in this. every time someone from Norfolk is on screen they sound like they come from the complete opposite end of the country!

    • @yourmum69_420
      @yourmum69_420 2 года назад

      @@ZhangK71 it's actually only 100 miles away

    • @krackawoody2556
      @krackawoody2556 Год назад

      I think Hot Fuzz is the best representation of the accent I've heard so far

  • @gaspodewb
    @gaspodewb 5 лет назад +30

    always thought of it not so much as putting a 'L' in but more of a 'AWL' sound so op-per-aa become opprawl and ket-tle becomes ket-awl or the same applies to botawl (bottle). I remember some of us Bristol lot had to work in Swindon and one of the posh locals there were completely mystified by one of our girls talking about 'ourma'. the lady thought she was speaking about somewhere in Ireland and I had to explain it was 'our ma' (our mum - or in more normal English my mother).
    Strangely tho' adding an AWL sound to sounds words is at odds at times with other phrases - for example 'I'm [ and that would pronounced more sounding like 'oim' ] gonna go to Floridawl to see Cape Canavera' - so taking off the 'L' completely. this obviously differs even within the Bristol 'ariel' (area) as places like say 'arcliff and Soufmead have different ways of saying words.

  • @SamJamwich1
    @SamJamwich1 3 года назад +7

    Las at the end could be looking for her sister asking strangers “where’s glory ‘ole” 🤣

  • @Starkardur
    @Starkardur 3 года назад +14

    Bristol accent is like the Baltimore accent of England

  • @marcoschagas9646
    @marcoschagas9646 3 года назад +13

    I like how they actually pronounce the "r" in the words.

    • @adanactnomew7085
      @adanactnomew7085 3 года назад +4

      It used to be very common outside of London to say Rs (rhotic) but since after WW2 almost all of England is non-rhotic. A very recent thing.

    • @shahee6579
      @shahee6579 3 года назад

      @@adanactnomew7085 why is that

    • @wilddog371
      @wilddog371 3 года назад

      @@shahee6579 londonners just wanted to distinguish themselves from the rest of England by being more “fashionable” and just like any language, the younger and more hip generation dictates the slang and dialect which is in turn copied by everyone else.

    • @thomsboys77
      @thomsboys77 Год назад +1

      @@adanactnomew7085complete exaggeration

  • @abrahamcano6195
    @abrahamcano6195 2 года назад +2

    One day, shall I cross the Atlantic and visit Bristol again...back in 2015 I had trouble trying to understand a guy from a nearby town whose name I cannot remember but it was a conundrum. On the other hand, I could perfectly follow another guy from London - add the jetlag I was forcing myself not to fall on the table...cheers from Mexico's highlands, Zacatecas city.

  • @lex224ification
    @lex224ification 3 года назад +6

    I, as a non-Brit, honestly thought the Bristol accent was somewhat posh. This proves me mighty wrong

    • @jendoi
      @jendoi 2 года назад

      no it actually makes sense.. your impression was right.

  • @SteezyRedStars
    @SteezyRedStars 3 года назад +11

    People from Bristol sound like pirates. Funny though because the famous “Blackbeard” was from Bristol

    • @Stevooo
      @Stevooo 3 года назад +7

      Actually the pirate accent comes from Bristol I believe

  • @elizabethfenwick7149
    @elizabethfenwick7149 4 года назад +5

    Haha I know what bristol are, I am from Yeovil Town 😂. South Somerset are , I just love the way English people

  • @rahjeel
    @rahjeel 2 года назад +2

    Why do they sound like pirates?! 🤣

  • @garyhewitt489
    @garyhewitt489 4 года назад +3

    My sister in law calls the local supermarket
    asdal.

  • @gege_cn
    @gege_cn 4 года назад +4

    I'm here to make fun of my nan and my mom

  • @benmarley3086
    @benmarley3086 3 года назад +7

    i live 5 miles from bristol in the suburbs for over 16 years and almost nobody has this heavy accent anymore. Most people in bristol with this accent are usually older.

  • @bustakeats1416
    @bustakeats1416 Год назад +1

    Ohhhh man her sister was named Gloria’l. That’s rough.

  • @renee1390
    @renee1390 4 года назад +17

    Wasn’t this the accent that the kids in Skins were supposed to speak it lol

    • @rowangibbins8612
      @rowangibbins8612 4 года назад +1

      That's because it's set in bristol

    • @shahee6579
      @shahee6579 3 года назад +1

      Yeah but we don't speak like that in Bristol anymore . Skins is actually spot on

    • @aoife7334
      @aoife7334 3 года назад

      @@shahee6579 Most people I know speak like this unless they’re posh

    • @shahee6579
      @shahee6579 3 года назад

      @@aoife7334 it's still there but nowhere near that exaggerated . Me and my friends are Bristol born and bred and we don't even have one

    • @anglohistory451
      @anglohistory451 2 года назад

      @@shahee6579 You and your friends are soulless

  • @finnie
    @finnie 4 года назад +5

    Where's Terry the odd job man. . .

  • @cakemartyr5794
    @cakemartyr5794 4 года назад +2

    I couldn't see this on TV. It was the areal. The areal where I live.

  • @keptins
    @keptins 3 года назад +5

    I don't think it is an "l", it is more of an intrusive "r" or a "retroflex l" or somewhere in between (leaning towards "r")

  • @AndyBonAlayon
    @AndyBonAlayon 6 лет назад +2

    Love it xx

  • @brie1796
    @brie1796 3 месяца назад

    It’s crazy how similar they sounds to the American accent.

  • @goombabear
    @goombabear 4 года назад +22

    Who cares how they speak. They seemed awfully nice. In 2020, I'd rather live in Bristol 1977 where people were polite and had manners however they spoke.

  • @robinbroad8760
    @robinbroad8760 3 года назад +2

    Originally Bristowe apparently. So's I was tawled

  • @Quyanxi
    @Quyanxi 5 лет назад +2

    Guess that'd make me Milo'l in Bristol - lol

  • @SlowDreamz
    @SlowDreamz Год назад

    The man sounds like Hagrid 😂

  • @noone-tq7cs
    @noone-tq7cs 3 года назад

    ‘meet big evil’

  • @Siobhan94404
    @Siobhan94404 Год назад

    Hilarious....must visit Bristol!

  • @strangeperson700
    @strangeperson700 5 лет назад +2

    Bristol = ol.

  • @sapphire-fj3mm
    @sapphire-fj3mm Год назад

    I'm bristolian myself and i actually hate my accent and the city where I'm originally from, which is bristol obviously. I was born in bristol but i certainly ain't gonna be dying in bristol.

  • @eoau
    @eoau Год назад

    1:23 dont go giving me evils!

  • @brizzleboi
    @brizzleboi 5 лет назад +2

    Gert lush !

  • @yoe91
    @yoe91 2 года назад

    tell me what I'm missing, and I'm not a complete stranger to accents but... how is it possible a city in the south of England, sounds to an outsider like me more Irish than English ? I mean it isn't even close geographically to Ireland.

  • @Alex.af.Nordheim
    @Alex.af.Nordheim Год назад

    It sounds like an old-school American accent to me

  • @jbalgo
    @jbalgo 5 лет назад +4

    Bristo'l

  • @JohnnysCoolStuff
    @JohnnysCoolStuff 4 года назад

    I used to hear Greensboro NC pronounced Greensber'l.

    • @goombabear
      @goombabear 4 года назад

      But oldtimers in Greenboro, NC pronounce their town "Greens-bur-ah." And Greensboro should be spelled "Greensborough." We have people living on NC's barrier islands speak the Kings English still.

  • @orangebetsy
    @orangebetsy Год назад

    Cool r’s like we say em in upstate New York

  • @stover14
    @stover14 2 года назад

    This is hilarious

  • @quantumdino
    @quantumdino 4 года назад

    People spoke like that about 60.years ago.

  • @WesleyB-Rook
    @WesleyB-Rook Год назад

    Is that guy Stephen merchants dad? Lol

  • @isnc24bmusic25
    @isnc24bmusic25 3 года назад

    I live in Bristol Wisconsin

  • @abdurrahmanzaki3162
    @abdurrahmanzaki3162 6 лет назад

    E-V-A, EVOL.

  • @WindmillStalker
    @WindmillStalker 5 лет назад +1

    Is that Michael Palin??

  • @christopherfairs9095
    @christopherfairs9095 2 года назад +1

    Chicken tikkal masalal

  • @spsppspsspsp8348
    @spsppspsspsp8348 4 года назад +7

    Damn theres hardly an accent here anymore lol

  • @Kendo121e
    @Kendo121e 3 года назад +2

    is this real

    • @whittlemia
      @whittlemia 3 года назад +4

      The accent? Yeah, I'm from Bristol and this is what we all sound like

  • @joyz3187
    @joyz3187 3 года назад

    0:54

  • @thegreatestshenfan6484
    @thegreatestshenfan6484 5 лет назад +1

    i n n i t

  • @Noname-iz9uo
    @Noname-iz9uo 2 года назад

    Omg maybe it’s bristo and never bristol

    • @ketchuplad157
      @ketchuplad157 2 года назад

      That is actually how the name bristol came about i believe hahah

  • @cheeselover940
    @cheeselover940 2 года назад

    hse spoeks lik wheatley 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @chowderwhillis9448
    @chowderwhillis9448 3 года назад

    Without the subs I’d have no idea wtf they’re saying as an American southerner

    • @whittlemia
      @whittlemia 3 года назад

      I'm from Bristol and I think Southern accents in America sound really homely

  • @mauricioaraujo4461
    @mauricioaraujo4461 3 года назад

    Donald Trumpl