Championship Players in the Premiership

PlangentThrowback wrote: corporalcarrot wrote: Jersey's starting props that day were Woolmore & Armstrong who both moved to Briz that year. Woolmore illustrates the point above about experience gained further down the pyramid than the Championship.  He was at Taunton for several seasons, plus a brief Exeter connection.  All before Jersey.  And now more game for Bris (does the 's' really sound like 'z'?).  Who developed him?  All of them.  I suspect the man himself may have but a bit of effort in too.

A bit late in the day, but I wasn't upset at the use of 'z' for 's', I was genuinely wondering if if sounds that hard to people outside the area.  Our flags and stickers from before the club decided Bears was an appropriate name always said 'Bris'.  There's an old book call Krek Waiter's Peak Bristle that gives a flavour of how it sounds locally.  Of course the truly distinctive aspect of the Bristol accent is the Bristol L (more correctly a parasitic L) where words ending in a weak vowel end up with an L.  For example idea becomes ideal.  Your real Bristolian will actually change ideal to idea to avoid confusion.  That's why Bristol has a Balloon Fiestal.  It's even the origin of the place name itself which was originally Bristow(e) and pronounced locally as Bristol (or Bristle).