[Tattooed-Biker]

this is for bristolians only really... i just found out from someone who knows josie that she lives in yate... well she recently moved to bristol. but iv never met anyone in yate with that accent.. actually iv only met very few people with that accent and they were all 40yrs+ iv never heard anyone josies age use the words she does...like mucker...i aint heard that word for a long ass time and it was always elderly folk who used that word (alrite me ole mucker, ows yer father) now i love josie and i cant see being able to fake the accent for that long.... but i think she is playing on it and using all the old school words. its only recently become popular to be proud to be a bristolian in people her age, a few years back 90% of 20yrs would never of heard of the wurzels. anyone else have a opinion on this? i dont know many people from yate but the ones i do know dont sound bristolian. like i said i dont think shes faking the actual accent.... just alot of the words she uses.

[Highlander]

Originally Posted by Tattooed-Biker

this is for bristolians only really... i just found out from someone who knows josie that she lives in yate... well she recently moved to bristol. but iv never met anyone in yate with that accent.. actually iv only met very few people with that accent and they were all 40yrs+ iv never heard anyone josies age use the words she does...like mucker...i aint heard that word for a long ass time and it was always elderly folk who used that word (alrite me ole mucker, ows yer father) now i love josie and i cant see being able to fake the accent for that long.... but i think she is playing on it and using all the old school words. its only recently become popular to be proud to be a bristolian in people her age, a few years back 90% of 20yrs would never of heard of the wurzels. anyone else have a opinion on this? i dont know many people from yate but the ones i do know dont sound bristolian. like i said i dont think shes faking the actual accent.... just alot of the words she uses.

It would be very difficult for her to keep it going that long.

[Tattooed-Biker]

the accent yeah....but not the words. i dont think the accent is fake... like how she pronounces words, but the words she uses.... alot of them seem put on

[bbfan1991]

I think it's genuine.. didn't Bea also come from Bristol last year (the posh part apparently) and she had no country twang to her accent.

[Tattooed-Biker]

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[Tattooed-Biker]

apparently bea came from bristol but i dont think she lived here very long. prob lived up clifton or something where its all posh. that emily is from bristol awell but again lives in the posh area

[vesavius]

Originally Posted by Tattooed-Biker

this is for bristolians only really... i just found out from someone who knows josie that she lives in yate... well she recently moved to bristol. but iv never met anyone in yate with that accent.. actually iv only met very few people with that accent and they were all 40yrs+ iv never heard anyone josies age use the words she does...like mucker...i aint heard that word for a long ass time and it was always elderly folk who used that word (alrite me ole mucker, ows yer father) now i love josie and i cant see being able to fake the accent for that long.... but i think she is playing on it and using all the old school words. its only recently become popular to be proud to be a bristolian in people her age, a few years back 90% of 20yrs would never of heard of the wurzels. anyone else have a opinion on this? i dont know many people from yate but the ones i do know dont sound bristolian. like i said i dont think shes faking the actual accent.... just alot of the words she uses.

Even if, and thats a BIG if, she is using words that she has picked up since moving here then wahts the problem? It's very common to pick words and phrases up from the people around you, especially if your friends are dyed in the wool.

I honestly don't doubt she speaks exactly the way she does in her normal day to day life and I don't think for 1 second it's put on for the show, and I guess thats the important thing.

[vesavius]

Originally Posted by Tattooed-Biker

apparently bea came from bristol but i dont think she lived here very long. prob lived up clifton or something where its all posh. that emily is from bristol awell but again lives in the posh area

Was Emily from here as well? Didint know that tbh.

[Tattooed-Biker]

no im saying shes using OLD words that people havent said for years. its quite common here now that people try and talk old bristolian cus they think it makes them look hard/popular etc etc. im telling you for sure how she talks is real....some of the words are put on without a doubt. my mums ex used to it aswell he would say babbers but now and then he'd say baby by accident then say babbers a few seconds later. its all fake. iv lived here all my life and never heard anyone her age talk like that....especially if they are from yate not bristol. emily is from a place near downend in north bristol though some people class it as south glos not bristol.

[Tattooed-Biker]

heres a good example.... do you have any friends who talk normal english....then they hear the wurzels and copy them lol i know loads of people like that. most of them forget about it after a week or so though unless they are trying to impress

[vesavius]

Originally Posted by Tattooed-Biker

no im saying shes using OLD words that people havent said for years..

yes, I understand what you are saying.

I responded by saying that if she hangs around or drinks with with old school dyed in the wool Bristolians then it's completely understandable for her to have picked up those words naturally, IF she didnt use them before.

Like I say, I have no doubt she uses those words in her day to day life, so there is no problem or need to worry.

[vesavius]

Originally Posted by Tattooed-Biker

heres a good example.... do you have any friends who talk normal english....then they hear the wurzels and copy them lol i know loads of people like that. most of them forget about it after a week or so though unless they are trying to impress

No... I have never met anyone who copies the way the wurzels talk in an effort to impress....

[Tattooed-Biker]

eh i aint so sure bud, not even the old folk talk like it anymore though. its reaaaaallly rare to hear people talk like that, and she says shes from bristol....but shes from yate.
it just seems to me shes trying for the bristol vote by upping her accent and words. unless she was born n bred around old school bristolians she wouldnt use them words anyway.... no one just adds new words to there vocab cus they heard someone say it in the pub lol

[Highlander]

Originally Posted by Tattooed-Biker

the accent yeah....but not the words. i dont think the accent is fake... like how she pronounces words, but the words she uses.... alot of them seem put on

She lives with her aunt, maybe she has picked up words from her.

[vesavius]

Originally Posted by Tattooed-Biker

...she says shes from bristol....but shes from yate. no one just adds new words to there vocab cus they heard someone say it in the pub lol

lol of course they do!

I think you are digging for something that just isnt there tbh... She lives in Bristol so she says she is from Bristol, I really don't see any issue with that.

[crit]

Wasson abowt...She might hang with ppl from Southmead, Knowle West or Hartcliffe or Bemmy, you know hard core Bristolians, they all speak like her and with an even thicker accent.

BTW Top night las night wernit!

[Kaaarenn!]

It's getting a bit silly wondering whether her accent is real or not Of course it is!

[BBfan46]

Josie has a west country accent.... Get over it.

[Beso]

as fake as my ten inch cock.

[Livia]

I think she's got an accent, but she's overdoing it. Like some people overdo the Cockney accent... makes me cringe.

[vesavius]

there are a lot of people from bristol all of a sudden on these boards... must be why they are all such experts on her accent


can't be that they just take any excuse to say anything negative, even if they know **** all about whats being discussed.

[Lewis.]

I live quite close to Bristol and go up there often for shopping and that. Yeah.. Her accent is very Bristolian. It's a strong Bristolian accent but it's definitely genuine. My grandad comes from Bristol and he sounds just like a manly Josie.

[chauncey]

It's probably genuine,but she does pile on the 'Oim a simple country lass I am'act when she's joking/fearing she looks like a bitch.

[Bristol Bird]

I'm from Bristol, and I casn't see what the fuss is all about. I hear people talking like that all the time - 'course she's genuine!! Yeh but - noo but - yeh but - go pick on Ben instead!!

[Tattooed-Biker]

i still think she is putting it on a bit, even more so now i know shes from yate (til recently) it doesnt matter where she hangs around peoples dilect dont change, i used to go to a pretty much all black school.... i didnt talk black. where u from bristolbird?
iv lived here 25yrs and only ever heard old people talk like josie does (the words she uses) dont get me wrong i have a very heavy bristolian accent but i dont say me ole mucker etc etc even though i grew up around people who did and neither does anyone i know... well apart from my aunty lol shes got the strongest accent and dilect iv ever heard

oh btw her aunty was on the phone on bblb and doesnt have a strong accent