1977: The BRISTOL Dialect | Nationwide | Voice of the People | BBC Archive
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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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I genuinely love accents. Each & every accent is made by the history of its place.
A student I was teaching referred to the Colosseum in Rome as "one of they gert gladiater rings"
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
It’s in Bristol. You mean it’s up the road from the city
I work in a pub in Bristol and quite often the older locals will ask for a Vodkal and coke.
Vodkal lan co coal co la!!!
1:21 Handsome man who looks like my favorite, late uncle.
Heard a Bristolian plumber ask for a: 'fermolcouple for a forn boilol' (thermocouple for a thorn boiler)
Did he get one 😂
@@garryleeks4848 He'd already had a couple ;)
@@garryleeks4848 fink so!
@@Barefoot_Joe That’s alright then 👍
British accents are wonderful aren't they. Perhaps the city should be renamed Bristo.
Aaaaaah, Bristo
@@buxycat 😊
Love a country bumpkin accent
Especially at Christmas time.
Historically it was written Bricstow. First instance with a final L dates from 1204. So the dialect appears to have driven the orthography
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)
My gran still did that with certain words even though she left Bristol in 1945 🤗
@@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.
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"😂😂
I live in Keynsham in Bristol. About 4 miles from the City. The more south you are the stronger the accent it seems
Iam Bristolian I was born there iam currently studying dialects in English history a level really fascinating how different people sound.
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)
Ah, beautiful Brista. Love it.
I love regional accents.
I had a teacher in 5th grade who always pronounced "idea" like "ideal". She was born in Bristol.
I am a NZer and I love this channel!
I Love the 1970’s!!!❤
Yes 70s we’re the best ❤
beautiful!
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.
Up north they say many things similar to Scandinavia, such as bairn for child.
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.)
Great.
So they’ve been fooling us all along! The city’s actually called BRISTO. 🤦🏻♂
It just proves that Snoop Dogg is from Bristol, lets say it with the 'izzle' with da 'snizzle'.
amazing heheh
Yeah Cardiff and Bristol sound alike.
Cardiff has similarities to Liverpool accent i find.
You can hear where the American accent comes from
Give us Bristolian before RP any day.
Proper girt lush that .....
Krek waiter's peak Bristle
When Bristol was great.
1:55 she's summerset not Bristol, completely different accent lol
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
My great uncle Roy sounded like this, doctorl he would say haha
Plot twist: what if it’s actually Brista and it only sounds like Bristol because of the accent.
Their accent kinda sounds like American accent
Great old film of Bristolians and not the modern hooligans.
Has this survived to 2022?
Not really, no
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
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.
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. 😢
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.
Ee assent bin asked bissent?
Arc at ee!
Did any of the actors from Skins speak like this?
None of them were from Bristol
@@billydeeuk Sid was. Worked in the old Topman in the mid 2000s
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.
@@ShinyBS4 only Sid and Max speaks Bristol, and some of the older characters. Might find more speakers in rural areas.
@@Lekirius In rural areas? Wouldn’t be a Bristol accent then!
Yes but wot about your hairstyle mate
So the word Bristol must have been Bristor
It was closer to Bristow
@@vladyslavpidlisnyiisn't it still?
It's a sexy accent.
What happened was drove all there for that them there fella in brisitolll
But they speak perfect standard English when they sing la la la la la la...
BRISTO
Almost 60 years later, Bristolian accent is TOTALLY different yet still unintelligible.
how's it changed?
DE CASSENT SPEEK ENNGLISH ROIGHT, CASS? BORN IN BRUM, I MOVED TO BRISSUL, AT 15. THEY COULDN'T UNDERSTAND ME, NOR I THEY, EITHER.😀
Or brizAl 😂
Big Eva culd talk filf to I aw day if she wants!!!
Other fannigan
Illiteracy.
Bristolians don't talk funny, everyone else does.
Illteralllraceallllcyy? Woz that mucks?
Dialects evolve from speech, not reading. Perhaps it's you that's illiterate, and not these fair folk?
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.