Bristol /l/

Another stereotype of Southwestern English is Bristol /l/. This term refers to the presence of epenthetic /l/ following word-final /ə/ in words of the lexical set commA (e.g. America) and in words that in RP end in , such as window. Thus America is pronounced  and Eva becomes homophonous with evil (Hughes and Trudgill 1996: 78). Bristol /l/ is a stereotype which has become the butt of many jokes. It is, however, confined to the Bristol area, and is not as common as its folk-linguistic status might suggest.