Match Day Thread Hull City v Bristol Rovers

Hull City 0-1 Bristol Rovers

 

Worrying!

 

Bartons a ****....but a **** who had us beat 4-1 when we was flying high!!!! Worried about today.

 

1-2

Not to worry

 

There’s a FB Stream?

 

Game today against a team that’s struggling, never easy, never take for granted but other teams having games in hand we need to win, we have put ourselves in this position which a few weeks back was even better. However been inconsistent we have dropped down the pecking order a bit. Last two wins good but we need to add to it. Keep the run going, any win would do me.

 

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/phrases-only-bristol-people-understand-7589


Same type of **** we have in our local rag.

 

To be fair, it could save some embarrassment if you hadn't been told “Where you going to?" translates as “Where are you going?"

 

And that famous Bristol only saying ..."Jobs a gud 'un". Who'd have thought eh! Embarrassing.

 

I was baffled by 'Cheers, drive' - what a weird language they have down there.

 

We're at that stage were the result is more important then the performance .. no matter how dull .. we need to keep churning out the 3 points .. Barton knows our game plan so will set up to counter it .. as ever scoring early is the key .. going for another scrappy narrow win.

 

Agree. If there's more paint to be watched then so be it.

 

Where the Bristol accent comes from and why everyone else speaks English wrong
We were never conquered, you see, and we've been talking properly ever since...
To answer the question of where our city's accent comes from we have to go back a long way – back before Bristol was a city and even further back than that, to before they started the roadworks.

The year is 878AD, and King Alfred is so distracted by the task of beating the Vikings that he doesn't notice the cakes he's been told to watch have burnt.



A king on the run, as the Vikings – they were known as Danes back then – stroll around his kingdom of Wessex, he's in a temporary camp hiding on the Somerset Levels, the last Saxon king still standing and the last defender of the people who speak English.

Alfred united those people, and scored a decisive victory in a battle near Westbury in Wiltshire, forcing the Danes back up north and east and behind a line where everything south and west was still Saxon, and everything north and east was Danish.

he English people living in the Danish lands still spoke English, but with a distinctly Scandinavian lilt, while those remaining in the south west were able to continue speaking English as God intended.

And the God of the West Country did indeed intend English to be spoken properly. And that means you pronounce the 'a' in bath, grass and glass properly. It has a long 'a' sound, not barth or glarss or grarss like those in the Home Counties, and not with an abrupt short bath, grass or glass like the Danes up north.
And it means you properly pronounce the letter 'r', which is at the end of a word like 'tractor' for a reason, otherwise you end up saying 'tracta', and Massey Ferguson don't make those. Or you say 'bar' as it's spelled, otherwise some people might think you're a sheep.

In his seminal book, and TV series, The Story of English , Melvyn Bragg writes that this battle in 878 was the place where the English language won, and its victors spoke West Country.

Anglo-Saxon from Somerset, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire is actually the purest form of English, he wrote - and Bristol is in the middle.


The 'R' is known by linguists as a 'rhotic R', and Bristol has given it, and the long 'a', to the world.

They are the two elements of the English accent that went with the early colonists to North America and survive, combined with various Scots and Irish influences, in all general American accents.

And it's why people from Bristol speaking proper Bristolian will say 'How bist me babber?', which is very similar to the Low German 'Du bist', which means 'you are'. The Bristolian habit of describing inanimate objects as 'he', is also particularly Germanic.

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Bristolians are often mocked for their 'Vicky Pollard'-esque accent
But in Bristol, we have more. Our accent is distinct within the family of West Country English accents. Bristolian has something else, and linguists call it the 'terminal L'. This is what makes area 'areal', Asda 'Asdawl', thank you 'thank youl' and, of course, Ikea 'Ikeal'.

Linguists cannot fathom where the 'terminal L' comes from because it is that old. It can be traced as far back as the Domesday Book. Back in Late Saxon and early Norman times, Bristol was known as Briggestowe, give or take other spellings.

This is Saxon, and means Bridge Meet – Stow is early English for the 'place where we meet'. When French Norman administrators jumped down off their horses and enquired of the locals the name of this little harbour town they'd come to was, the reply came that it was 'Briggestowl', which morphed eventually in Bristol.

But if you listen carefully enough, it's not an 'L' sound at all, more like an 'aw' sound that people from that there London mistake for an 'L'.

So in a nutshell, the Bristol accent and dialect comes from the fact Bristolians were never conquered by the Danes, and speak English the original, Germanic way – it's everyone else that says it wrong.

 

Aardman Animations is Bristol's https://www.aardman.com/

 

A classic goal against a Bristol team..

 

Dean is an absolute hero to 50% of Bristol.

 

If I ever get bored of watching that goal. Just shoot me.

 

I think Brizzle Rovers fans probably love that goal as much as we do.

Also, no offense Ron, but it needs the commentary. Quite simply destined to be.

 

They speak proper English the German way .

 

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