Bristol being the principal city in the South-West, I thought I'd tell you a bit about its colourful dialect. If you have no preconception of what Bristolian sounds like then you could try to imagine a pirate speaking with round vowels and lots of 'aaahrr' sounds. Of course, that would be an exaggeration but the fact is that Bristol used to be the haven of a great many infamous pirates, the most notorious of these being Blackbeard himself.
But if you've seen the Harry Potter films then Hagrid speaks in a Bristolian accent. There are also a lot of words that are typical to Bristol and here you'll find a few samples. When we first moved house and ended up in Bristol a friendly neighbour welcomed us in a strange exotic language that we couldn't quite fathom. It turned out to be just a local East-Bristolian and now, a few years later, we can mostly decipher what he says. Mostly.
But if you've seen the Harry Potter films then Hagrid speaks in a Bristolian accent. There are also a lot of words that are typical to Bristol and here you'll find a few samples. When we first moved house and ended up in Bristol a friendly neighbour welcomed us in a strange exotic language that we couldn't quite fathom. It turned out to be just a local East-Bristolian and now, a few years later, we can mostly decipher what he says. Mostly.
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