Variations Of The Bristol Accent - A Tour Around The City

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  • Опубликовано: 24 апр 2014
  • The Professor of Bristolian takes you on a tour around Bristol, from north to south to east, in order to demonstrate the variations in the accent. Warning: not to be taken too seriously! Full of ludicrous generalisations!
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  • @jasminev1482
    @jasminev1482 8 лет назад +19

    North bristol: alright my loverr/dar, south bristol: alright my babber/babes

  • @rachelhilton1196
    @rachelhilton1196 Год назад +3

    You are amazing! I grew up in Bedminster but moved away when I was eleven so it’s fantastic to hear all the different accents I remember from my childhood. Thank you.

    • @gdsongwriter
      @gdsongwriter  Год назад

      Thank you so much. I've done a much more recent one on the same theme, making use of Snapchat to create different characters, called 'The Bristol Accent In All Its Glorious Variations".

  • @jeanthomas3910
    @jeanthomas3910 6 лет назад +12

    I lived in Southmead and you have the accent just right. I live in Brighton now so it's lessened slightly but still got the Brissol twange.

    • @gdsongwriter
      @gdsongwriter  6 лет назад +2

      I got to know a lot of meaders growing up. It was impossible not to living just down the hill in Brentry!

    • @MrDaiseymay
      @MrDaiseymay Год назад

      Brissol---qwite roight me babbie

  • @MrDaiseymay
    @MrDaiseymay Год назад +2

    I was born in Brum (Birmingham ) family moved to Brissol 12 yrs lay er. I couldn't unnerstand them, and they cudner unnerstan me. What was most prevelant, especially from the old Bristolians of the 1950's was, How Bist' ? ( how are you ? ) 'de cassant' ( you can't ) 'De Bissant' Biss ?( you didn't did you ?) De be, ( you Are) Now listen to Adge Cutler singing, with his south Brissol north Somerset accent.

  • @TonyPirog
    @TonyPirog 10 лет назад +12

    Steve Merchant does seem to reflect the modern day east Bristol accent very well. It's all gotten softer over the years, especially the R's. As someone who grew up in Kingswood, spent quite a lot of time in 'Annum, and went to school in St. George's (St. Jarge's is how we pronounced it), but now lives in America, it's always a treat to hear him speak on the telly. Takes me back to my youth, when I was just a nipper. :-)

    • @tedwordlaw5135
      @tedwordlaw5135 10 лет назад +3

      Ya almost brought me to tears.. Thanks for sharing'

    • @gdsongwriter
      @gdsongwriter  10 лет назад +1

      Ted Wordlaw
      Tears of laughter I hope! Are you from Bristol or nearby?

    • @TonyPirog
      @TonyPirog 10 лет назад +1

      ***** Strange thing. If this is the Ted Wordlaw I know, he is from Chicago. Myself I grew up in Bristol. :-)

    • @oliverehmann1879
      @oliverehmann1879 9 лет назад +2

      Ar'right mate, im from round that neck of the woods too. Tis all changed now, Church Road is like little Krakow and are Lawrence Hill is gone proper Zambian.
      Come home Bristolian!

    • @MichaelTheGamer10
      @MichaelTheGamer10 8 лет назад +1

      Hey, I'm from Longwell Green, next to Hanham :)

  • @366Gli
    @366Gli 9 лет назад +9

    During my 5 year sojourn is Briston in the 50's the thing that intrigued me about the Bristolians was their use/misuse of final L's in a word. I remember a T.V installr coming to inquire if this was the house that needed a TV area installed ( rather than a TV aerial). I was also told that Africal is a Malarial Areal. Words normally without a fianl L got one and words that should had one missed it.

    • @Bonez0r
      @Bonez0r 5 лет назад +1

      Ah yes, i was looking for videos with Bristolian accents and one i came across was pointing that out in a humorous way ruclips.net/video/2qKBRnyWleU/видео.html

  • @charlotteatkins7343
    @charlotteatkins7343 7 лет назад +5

    I'm from Whitchurch, near Stockwood and Hartcliffe. It's softer and we are near enough all City fans.

  • @denicafairman4253
    @denicafairman4253 2 года назад

    Absolutely brilliant!! Thank you so much for this tour!! I have a great idea of the accent now so feel fully equipped for my VO job tomorrow. You are a ledge!! 😀

  • @bristol527
    @bristol527 6 лет назад +4

    Love it, Im from Kingswood Living in Australia Bristol born and bred love the accent spot it a mile off.

    • @gdsongwriter
      @gdsongwriter  6 лет назад +1

      My older brother lived in Sydney, Australia for 18 years and I remember when I stayed with him in the 90s I tried to teach my youngest niece (who was about 4 at the time) the expression "ow bist?" Of course, she repeated it in her Australian accent and then asked "What does it mean?" My brother overheard and, having lived away from Bristol for a long time and being Oxbridge educated, he was horrified. "What are you teaching her?" he yelled!

    • @TheJ1mmey
      @TheJ1mmey 3 года назад +1

      I'm in Australia atm, Im from bedminster and I met a 50yr old women at a doof from knowle west. I was like wtf, alright my baber haha

    • @djanitatiana
      @djanitatiana 3 года назад +1

      @@gdsongwriter Haha. Mate, if you think "Poshtolian" is a larf, you need to get an earful of "Aussie abroad". These are various dropkicks & butt nuggets terminally diagnosed with cultural cringe and have decided the remedy is to sound like Prince Andrew if he was raised in Wormwood Scrubs.

  • @glumonion1454
    @glumonion1454 11 месяцев назад +1

    My mum came from a large family who grew up in Bedminster/Ashton Gate border area. Your Bristol City supporter accent had me in stitches 🤣🤣 That was exactly how they spoke about everything (not just football), in that soft but very Bristol in a rather sorrowful defeatist slightly moaning tone.

  • @PowerpopPrince
    @PowerpopPrince 8 лет назад +8

    I lived 'out Yate' for about a year and noticed their accent is almost completely different from K'wood/StGeorge!

    • @thebritishippie
      @thebritishippie 4 года назад

      Haha Kingswood boy here 👌 so right!

    • @kathhollandful
      @kathhollandful 4 года назад +2

      “Out Yate”! So funny! I’ve heard that so many times! But never heard anyone say “out” anywhere else in Bristol!

    • @thebritishippie
      @thebritishippie 4 года назад

      @@kathhollandful Out Cribbs too!

  • @victoryfornelson
    @victoryfornelson 4 года назад +3

    South Bristle is Red and we say Gert, Proper and Lush in every sentence

  • @alistairallen7397
    @alistairallen7397 9 лет назад +5

    that sitter from 35 yards

  • @del1984fly
    @del1984fly 3 года назад +2

    Brilliant 👍👍😃

    • @gdsongwriter
      @gdsongwriter  3 года назад +1

      Thanks a lot. Recorded this before the days of snapchat. Did a more up-to-date version on the same theme very recently - ruclips.net/video/GOHvGSUr5lU/видео.html

  • @carol-lo
    @carol-lo 3 года назад +1

    Its interesting !

  • @carsonking5549
    @carsonking5549 7 лет назад +5

    Hanham was as spot on as the rest, excellent job.
    Me and my friend (both gas heads) watched the open top bus being welcomed i n Kingswood on RUclips when Jerry Francis as manager, had lost in the play offs in the 70's and everyone was still singing and cheering. Up the Gas, best football supporters in the world. 'Bristol Rovers are shit', 'yeah I know, I've been following them 30 years, fancy a pint'.

    • @gdsongwriter
      @gdsongwriter  7 лет назад +2

      Thanks a lot. I grew up a gashead although I had a trial run in City's A team when I was a teenager meaning that, although Rovers' results are always the ones I'm most interested in I like to see City do well too. There's another vid on youtube of me doing keepie uppie at Rovers old Eastville Stadium in 1972!

  • @thomasp8533
    @thomasp8533 8 лет назад +5

    I'm from Kingswood/ hanham way but I haven't really got the east Bristol accent but due to family from different parts of the city I think the best to describe mine is a mix between meader and Whitehall

    • @gdsongwriter
      @gdsongwriter  8 лет назад +2

      +Tom Perrett Hi Tom, Although there are slight differences in the accent I think it's hard to pin it down too precisely. Like I said, my vid is full of ludicrous generalisations! I've heard women from south Bristol speak exactly like Josie Gibson who I believe is from Westerleigh, which is near Yate and miles away from Withywood and Hartcliffe!

    • @MichaelTheGamer10
      @MichaelTheGamer10 8 лет назад

      I'm from Longwell Green :)

  • @itsjudystube
    @itsjudystube 8 лет назад +2

    Loved Westbury on Trym

  • @Burkhart4192
    @Burkhart4192 8 лет назад +3

    It's funny, I grew up in Bedminster and was moved to Ireland at the tender age of seven, so I have some of the accent but -being the sort who cared about this stuff- I pronounce everything "correctly", eg no dropped Hs.

  • @So3oodiya
    @So3oodiya 7 лет назад

    Spot on

  • @Beatlefan67
    @Beatlefan67 9 лет назад +4

    Good! What about Sea Mills and Whitchurch me babber. Can you do they?

    • @petewest3122
      @petewest3122 8 лет назад +1

      +John Penny I 'erd from Ratty Al, in school like, that there was a beaver in the Trym.

  • @CraigFemboy
    @CraigFemboy 4 года назад +2

    I dont have a Bristol accent even tho I live in southmead

  • @christopherstephens2547
    @christopherstephens2547 8 лет назад +3

    harry mcmillan, What about the Jamaican & West Indies Caribbean accents in certain parts of Bristol? Unless you really wants them to sounds like Bristolian's Pirates & farmers, come gangsters crossover accents! Foreign originated accents aren't English so of course it's going to sounds like a gangster Bristolian mash up lol

  • @jennybrooke9284
    @jennybrooke9284 8 лет назад +3

    You are brilliant.lmao

  • @Channel-os4uk
    @Channel-os4uk 3 года назад +1

    I thought 'Bedminster' was 'Bemster'. (Rhotic R)

  • @simonclark29041978
    @simonclark29041978 7 лет назад +1

    well I'm originally from fishponds I don't find the accent there as strong as say knowle west or Southmead there's no ARK AT EE spoken there

  • @djanitatiana
    @djanitatiana 3 года назад +1

    Wow, that was spectacular, especially to an Aussie from Sydney. So follow up question in light of the Stephen Merchant reference: John Cleese is from Weston-super-Mare, does he have any traces of Somerset or Bristolian to the trained ear?

    • @gdsongwriter
      @gdsongwriter  3 года назад +1

      John Cleese speaks with pretty much a 'standard English' accent. Incidentally, my brother lived in Sydney for 18 years and I've visited the city twice. After a fortnight there I was saying 'wadda' for water instead of using the classic Bristolian pronunciation 'wa'urr'!

    • @djanitatiana
      @djanitatiana 3 года назад +2

      @@gdsongwriter Haha! If you stayed for three weeks it would have had three syllables, two for the "aa-uh" part!

  • @theelephantseal3142
    @theelephantseal3142 Год назад

    We need to cook Jesse

  • @harrymail7
    @harrymail7 9 лет назад +2

    What about he jamacian accent in Saint Paul's and easton??

    • @thegreatestshenfan6484
      @thegreatestshenfan6484 5 лет назад +1

      Easton is more Arabic influenced.
      The st.paulers just sound like black east Londoners really.

    • @stevethomas5849
      @stevethomas5849 Год назад

      there is a West Indian/Bristol accent that has developed.

  • @MrJohnQCitizen
    @MrJohnQCitizen Год назад

    We scored a gorl

  • @thegreatestshenfan6484
    @thegreatestshenfan6484 5 лет назад

    What about the St Paul's/Easton accents? Easton sounds like a cross between Hartcliffe and Punjabi/Arabic for some reason, no idea what A St Paul's accent sounds like.

    • @rowangibbins8612
      @rowangibbins8612 3 года назад +2

      St paul's: OI BRUV RUN THEM SHOES

    • @thegreatestshenfan6484
      @thegreatestshenfan6484 3 года назад +2

      @@rowangibbins8612 Ah yes, I remember. St. Paul's is the Bristolian equivalent of roadman

    • @gitbackmymushh06
      @gitbackmymushh06 2 года назад +1

      @@rowangibbins8612 ere look run me them shoes unless u want a straightin