{"id":4180,"date":"2014-05-20T07:33:35","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T07:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=4180"},"modified":"2014-05-20T07:34:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T07:34:24","slug":"ah-bristo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=4180","title":{"rendered":"Ah! Bristo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the features of the variety of English spoken in Bristol is the terminal &#8216;L&#8217; &#8211; a final, intrusive \u2018L\u2019 on words ending in a vowel sound. As a consequence, Bristolians live in areals of the city and some of them do their shopping in Asdal.<\/p>\n<p>This terminal L found its earliest expression in the city&#8217;s name itself, which has mutated from <em>Brigstowe<\/em> in Saxon times.<\/p>\n<p>However, the terminal L is now under threat from poor writing and editing at the Bristol Post (<em>or should that be Bristo Post? Ed.<\/em>), as revealed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/Acorn-Ecology-opens-new-office-Bristo\/story-21111435-detail\/story.html\">this blatant advertisement masquerading as news<\/a>, complete with obligatory screenshot.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2014\/05\/bristo.png\" alt=\"Bristol Post screenshot\" width=\"558\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2014\/05\/bristo.png 558w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2014\/05\/bristo-300x134.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More of this poorly written junk can be expected in future as the Bristol Post &#8211; along with the rest of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Local_World\">Local World<\/a> group to which it belongs &#8211; will be making increasing use of user-provided content, presumably to save on employing trained journalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the features of the variety of English spoken in Bristol is the terminal &#8216;L&#8217; &#8211; a final, intrusive \u2018L\u2019 on words ending in a vowel sound. As a consequence, Bristolians live in areals of the city and some of them do their shopping in Asdal. This terminal L found its earliest expression in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3,32],"tags":[40,14,16,22,33],"class_list":["post-4180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","tag-bristol","tag-dialect","tag-english-usage","tag-language","tag-media-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4183,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180\/revisions\/4183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}