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    What is peculiar about the speech of your average Bristolian that concerns words which end with a vowel?

    Question #45913. Asked by shamona. (Mar 31 04 2:03 PM)


    MaggieG 5

    		They put an 'L' at the end of words that end in an 'A'.

    Mar 31 04, 2:20 PM
    TabbyTom

    		I heard of a chap who moved into Bristol and couldn’t get a good picture on his TV set. The TV engineer told him (or so he thought) “It’s all the fault of the aerial.” “Okay,” he said “put up a new aerial.” After much talk at cross-purposes he realized that the engineer was blaming not the *aerial* on his roof but the *area* of Bristol in which he lived – at the foot of one of the many hills.

    My mother was a Bristolian born in Gloucestershire, so I’m fairly familiar with the dialect.


    Mar 31 04, 4:25 PM
    Linus_337

    		I have an uncle who is a born and bred Bristolian. When he refers to America, it sounds like "a miracle".

    They're a funny bunch once you start nearing the end of the peninsula....

    Mar 31 04, 6:20 PM

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