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.

It has been used for centuries to evoke the sound of rural England and simple country ... He is not the only person credited with bringing the Bristol accent into the mainstream, with comedians ...

Dr Jeanine Treffers-Daller, reader in linguistics at the University of the West of England in Bristol, agreed that the accent could be influenced by relatives. She said: "When we are learning to speak ...

And comedian Jayde Adams has gone viral for singing current UK number one 'Pink Pony Club' by Chappell Roan - but in a Bristol accent. She's also posted some alternative lyrics to it too.

Belfast, Geordie, and Glaswegian accents proved the hardest to ... recruited 50 participants from the North East of England, Belfast, Dublin, Bristol, Glasgow, Essex and London to prepare audio ...