Bristol dialect

I'm from the UK and in my 20s I moved to a city called Bristol in the south-west of England.

The south west of england is known as the West Country. It has it's own accent and dialect, with various sub-accents. If you're not familiar with the West Country accent, you could imagine the typical on-screen pirate accent, because it's similar; this may be because Edward Teach (Blackbeard) was a native of Bristol, and West Country native Robert Newton's performance in the 1950 Disney film Treasure Island is credited with popularising the stereotypical West Country "pirate voice" [1].

Here is a list of West Country vocabulary, including Smooth (said as "smoove"). In the west country (and parts of wales) it means "to stroke", as in "Can I smooth that dog?".

P.s if you want to hear bristol accents, please watch this delightful BBC archives video on the "Bristol L" a dialect feature which is now dying out.

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