Bristol: Virtute et Industrial Virtute et Industrial Help Wanted Bristol's motto is Virtute et Industria - virtue or valour and industry. There are several emblems that are associated with Bristol, the Unicorn and the ship protected by a castle, both of which feature on our Coat of Arms and which can be seen all over the city. If you've ever heard the Bristol accent you'll realize why this page is called "Virtute et Industrial" not the more proper "Virtute et Industria" - but more on that in a bit. This picture was taken around 20 years ago - in the early 1980's. It is of the Bristol Coat of Arms painted on the side of a train at Bristol Industrial Museum This image comes from a set of Raphael Tuck postcards published in the beginning of the twentieth century "Heraldic" Series 159. This series along with Tuck's "United Kingdom" series was published in 1902 / 1903. The Accent The Bristol accent is very distinctive, even just a few miles out of the city the local accents are a lot different to ours.

When I was at school, some of our teachers would spend forever trying to get rid of our accents. We were told that Bristolians were lazy speakers. Harsh sounding letters or syllables were usually dropped or substituted for softer ones. Hence the pronunciation of "lissen" for "listen" and the dropping of "th" in favour of "f" as in "fink" for "think". Words that ended in vowels or a "w" invariably had an "l" added to them hence "arial" for "area", "windal" for "window" and even the "Industria" in our own motto becomes "Industrial". This is probably why the original pronunciation of Bristol, Brigstow, ended up the way it is, the lazy speaking Bristolians found it easier to miss off the harsh "w" off and replaced it with the softer "l", and dropping the "g" altogether. Hence Bristol is usually pronounced "Bristle". Not only is the pronunciation different but we use words not found elsewhere.

Words such as "bist", this is usually used as a question, as in "were's bist?" - "where are you?", "how's bist" - "how are you?" "Weem" means "we are" "tain't" means "it is not" "gert" means "very", hence "gert big" or "gert small" An ex-pat, Andy Evans sent me the following from Florida :- Eva Turner The Prima Donna of the Carma Rosa I saw the beeb [BBC] take this out on a card and asked people to read it aloud, they got... of course Evil Turnel of the Carmal Rose-al ...and Adge Curler's (later re-recorded by Fred Wedlock)... "Oh Ah, theze bin an gotten whur thee casn't back'n assn't....still leaves friends thinking we speak a foreign language! Thanks to Rick Cryer for putting me straight on who recorded the song first! Rick also asked the question about the word "ut" at the end of some exclamations. He writes... Adge rhymed "shuttup ut" to rhyme with "warden's foot".

My family would also say, to noisy kids, "shut thee rattle up ut!". Can you suggest an origin/derivation for "ut"? I can accept "thee casn't" and "thee bist" as deriving from "thou can'st not" and "thou beist not" but "ut" has got I stumped! This had me running for Derek Robinson's "Bristol With Pride - The Krek Waiter's Peak" (Abson Books, 1987) and it's not in there! There's nothing remotely like it in the book. The only thing I could find that comes anywhere close to it is on a website that deals with the accent from Portsmouth . Dr. Bill Thompson wrote... dount evree mush talk pompey dare u t' tell me wymrin mates talk posh an u get yer face dun in Which looks very much like Bristolian to me. Dr. Thompson goes on to say that the reason for this is that the dockyards of Portsmouth were extensively expanded towards the turn of the nineteenth century and where else would they import dockyard workers from but Bristol and London?

The "ut" here is in a completely different context to what Adge wrote but the only explanation I can come up with is that "ut" is a derivation of "you". Hopefully, someone knows better than I the true meaning of "ut". Andy Dowden emailed in April 2014, to say that he thought that "ut" is probably derived from wusn't (won’t you). While in May 2014, Peter Shelton emailed to say that he believes it to be a very truncated form of the expression "wilt thou." If you knock out the second word, elide the l, Bristol fashion, and the w, you end up with something like "ultt," where the l is implied not sounded. And the u in "ut" would sound as in foot. This seems right for the context of the original quote. Eg.

"Give us one o' thy fags, ult?" Peter goes on to say that the ""ust" (u sounds like oo in wood) derived from "would'st." It would work in the example I gave, or more like: "Yer mate, ust get I some fags then?" He also likes 'sknow as in "thee's know." Daps Nigel Bath from St. Paul, Minnesota emailed me and asked if I knew the origin of the word dap. Daps are a local term for a kind of rubber soled, canvas topped shoe, what you might know as boating shoes, pumps or plimsolls. Here in Bristol, it is both a noun, ie the shoes or a verb. "To get the dap" at school was to be be hit by a teacher with one, "to dap round the shops" was to go to the shops and "to get your daps on" was to be in a hurry or to be told to hurry up.

The Dictionary of Slang site just gives the word a Welsh origin, but the site on English Dialects (site now gone but a version is available on the Internet Archive ), which funnily enough chooses the word for gym-shoes or trainers to trace dialects around England, gives the word a Welsh or SW English origin. Legend has it that an imaginative shoe salesman in Victorian times named them plimsolls because of the sharp dividing line between the sole and the uppers. That meant dry feet if you walked in the sea no higher than the rubber sole, and wet ones if the water rose over the canvas. Samuel Plimsoll was the man who invented the Plimsoll load line for ships. A brief article on him appears on the Hotwells pages on this site. BJ on the ex-pats forum of the Bristol Evening Post (site now gone) replied to my appeal for help ... My dictionary is quite clear on the subject; it calls the word "dap" a specifically Welsh or SW English word for a plimsoll and refers back to the verb "to dap" which means to tap or bounce. It has a fly-fishing derivation and also refers to a bird dipping its beak into the water.

From the same forum Afrimike replied ... DAPS is called daps because when you rush around in them they goes..Dap..Dap..Dap on the floor..easy innit !!! Thanks for that Afrimike. From the uk.local.bristol newsgroup, Jezza replied ... Dunlop Athletic Plimsolls (DAP) - the signs in cobblers windows used to have the initial capitals in a large size, hence the contractions. That's all I know about daps, if know know a different origin of the word then please email me. My email address can be found on my About Ray page. I was visiting Patty in America one time and we went to a shop, or should that be store? We only went in to buy a light bulb and soon as I opened my mouth one of the assistants asked if I was from Bristol. It turns out his family had emigrated there from Yate, a town about 7 miles outside Bristol. In the 1960's Adge Cutler made a song about Bristol, in the 1980's Fred Wedlock re-recorded it.

I was hoping to make both versions available on these pages as mp3 files, but as the song is around five minutes in length, and even using low quality recordings I just don't have room on the server for them, so you'll just have to be content with the lyrics. Virtute et Indusrial Oh, we be Bristol kiddies We comes from Bristol City Where all the blokes is handsome And all the birds is pretty Weem proud of our 'ome town It never gets we down and we got a little motto What we sing up Bedminster Down Virtute et Industrial Three cheers for Novers Hill If the City don't win Saturday P'raps the Rovers will Shout it to thee neighbour Virtute et Industrial An' see thee down the Labour Praise the City Fathers 'Cos they know what they'n doin' Don't listen to they moaners Who says weem going' to ruin They talks of Portbury But I aint kiddin' thee Who wants docks On the lavatories be free?

Virtute et Industrial Long live all the brewers Build more pubs and bettin' shops Don't waste the cash on sewers Virtute et Industrial An' never mind the stink Oh we be livin' well Bad times is in the distance We lives it up like hell On National Assistance It tain't that we do shirk To do a bit of work But if you coulst live without it Well, who'd be such a berk Virtute et Industrial We be such sober people Bristol's like a gert big church With a thousand foot glass steeple Virtute et Industrial No drunks is ever seen (hic) Virtute et Industrial Well, thees know what I mean Let progress be our watch word Hooray for all the planners They keeps the traffic flowing And never minds the tanners From Lulsgate thees could tear To Paris, now by air But the buses down Old Market Is enough to make thee swear Virtute et Industrial They'n gonna print the Evening Post In Welsh to make things queerer Virtute et Industrial With one way streets and flyovers We knows which way ween facing Has you seen our brand new bridge Down at Cumberland Basin?

The cars go by like thunder Up and round and under Just where they goes And t'aint no bleedin' wonder Virtute et Industrial Our town will last for ever If we can't build the Concorde We'll buy 'n on the never Virtute et Industrial Who got ten million quid Virtute et Industrial well, ther thee bist then kid The best of British luck To the Mayor and Corporation They just come back from France A credit to the Nation Now, mind you keep it dark But they reckon the old Town Clerk Bought back they Follies Bergeres In exchange for Ashton Park Virtute et Industrial Up the Downs on Sundays We spent the rent on Saturdays Down Nelson Street on Mondays Virtute et Industrial Virtute et Industrial Till weem all out Arno's Vale Well, that's the song and now for the explanations, I know I have to do this as I've sent the song to my American friends and had to explain it to them.

Blokes = men Bedminster Down - a district in South Bristol Novers Hill - a district in South Bristol near Knowle City - Bristol City, one of our two professional football teams Rovers - Bristol Rovers, the other one The Labour - the old Labour Exchange in Nelson Street near the old St Johns Gate , noW replaced by "Job Shops". Portbury - By the 1960's it was obvious the city docks was dying - mostly because it wasn't deep enough for large ships. A huge deep water port was built at Portbury. Kiddin' = kidding = joking "Don't waste the cash on sewers" - a reference to the fact that some parts of Bristol were always very badly affected by floods. When I was a boy, and living in Knowle, I can remember my mum taking me to a spot that overlooked Bedminster, it was during a very bad flood and most of "Bemmy" was under 8ft of water. For years after most of the houses bore "tide marks" of this particular flood. Years later, I lived in Bedminster and was chatting to one one of my neighbours about the floods.

She said she was living there at the time and when the water had receded had to go across the "Tip" and rescue her belongings that had been washed out of the house. The "Tip" is the nick name of Marksbury Road playing fields - so called because at one time it was a rubbish tip. When we were remodelling the back garden there was evidence of this in the amount of rubbish, including an old lorry engine, that we found. Another interesting thing she said during that conversation was that during the war, the house that I bought had been hit by a bomb and had to be, more or less, completely rebuilt. During the 1970's the Council decided to do something about the floods once and for all and so the Malago flood relief scheme was put into effect. This involved drilling two 20ft diameter pipes under the city to carry flood water away.

National Assistance - the dole - unemployment benefit coulst = could tanners = sixpence in the days of the old English money Lulsgate - the site of our regional airport Old Market - another district of Bristol, the reference to the public bus (omnibus) service being rubbish is as true now as it was then Cardiff - the capital of Wales, which is on the opposite side of the River Severn Evening Post - our local evening newspaper Nostra Yakki Da - I'm not sure if I've spelled this properly, but it means "Good Health" in Welsh (I think) "Oh Ah" or "Oh Ar" - for some reason the rest of the UK seem to think that Bristolians go around in peasant smocks sucking on a piece of straw and that these are the only words we know. I was in a pub in Nottingham one time and from my accent the barman guessed I was from Bristol, as soon as I said I was the next thing he said was "Oh Ar" Cumberland Basin - the site of the entrance to the floating harbour. A huge new road complex was built here in the 1960's. The road bridge here is a swing bridge that allows shipping entrance to the floating harbour.

"Bugger" and "Bleedin" - mild expletives Concorde - British Aerospace and Rolls Royce both have huge factories here (or did have) and Concorde was built here. The song makes a reference to the huge amounts of money the British Government spent getting the worlds first, and only, supersonic passenger aircraft off the ground (sorry about the pun) "The Never or "Never Never" - buying on hire purchase. You don't own the goods until the last payment is made Quid - slang for the old English pound (money not weight) Ashton Park - Ashton is a district of Bristol The Downs - a huge open area near Clifton Nelson Street - another reference to the old Labour Exchange. Unemployed people used to have to sign on the "dole" every week Arno's Vale - another area of Bristol near Brislington. It has a huge cemetery, which the song is making a reference to. The Fred Wedlock version missed out the two verses beginning "Praise the City Fathers" and "Long live all the brewers" In December 2002, I received an email from Eric Brain asking if I knew anything about Len "Uke" Thomas.

All that could be found about him was that he was very popular through the 60's to the 80's and sang songs like "Wassfink Of 'Ee, Den", "Thee Bissn't Gonna Get'n Out Of I" and "Thee's Better Keep Thee Eye On 'Ee". Looking up my old copies of the "Bristol Times" This newspaper has two articles about him, in issues 176 (11th Dec 2001) and 178 (8th Jan 2002). The lyrics and picture of him come from these articles.

Len "Uke" Thomas Wassfink Of 'Ee, Den (The Bristol Song) Now Bristol is a famous town The gateway to the West Although beer is weaker here We still say beer is best We're famous for our beauty spots But what makes us unique Is not our awful manners But the funny way we speak Chorus Wot's fink of 'ee then, wot's fink of 'ee Wot's fink of 'ee then the price of 'ee If thee casn't speak as well as thee coust Then take a screw at 'ee Wot's fink of 'ee then, wot's fink of 'ee The people down St.

Philips way Will welcome you, no doubt But if the wind is blowing strong It's better to keep out The smell from Cole's boneyard And the Feeder as you go It seems that it's the only way The ruddy wind will blow Chorus Now there's a place in Bristol And it's known as Durdham Down Where you can spend a holiday For less than half a crown You can see the famous beauty spots But the noises from the zoo Will make you think the monkey's Trying to do the kangaroo Chorus Our city fathers built a palace Up on College Green It's the finest grandest palace You've ever seen With unicorns and coats of arms All shiny and so bright But then the public got the bill They yelled with all their might Chorus We've got a place called Brandon Hill Where courting couples go And you may see them courting In sunshine, rain and snow You may here a maidens voice say Oh! Please stoppit Joe His reply will come to you In accent sweet and low Chorus In February 2005, I received an email from Philip Budd who was a neighbour of Len Thomas. Philip wrote...

Len Thomas lived in Brooklyn Road, Bedminster Down, with his wife, two sons, Brian and Mickey, and his daughter. Brian, who was a particular friend of mine, died at the age of 21, I believe, but Mickey went on, as an amateur for a while but I suspect later as a professional trainer, into martial arts. Len was full of fun and did a lot of practicing, easily heard, and appreciated, in the road outside. Philip is also the brother-in-law of Bryan Bignell who is responsible for the St. George pages on this site. You may be interested in these other sites about west country artists ... Scrumpy and Western - everything about local bands The following links will take you to sites about Adge Cutler and Fred Wedlock Adge Cutler and the Wurzels Steve Woods | Virtute et Industrial Virtute et Industrial Tweet The motto of the city of Bristol is Virtute et Industria (Virtue and Industry). However, one feature of Bristol’s local dialect is the addition of a final, intrusive ‘L’ – a so-called terminal L – to words ending in a vowel.

Consequently, area, say, becomes ‘areal‘, whilst Clifton’s Princess Victoria Street mutates into Princess Victorial Street, so Industria naturally becomes Industrial. The terminal L is beautifully illustrated in Virtute et Industrial, a song written by Adge Cutler ( posts passim ), and sung here by the late Fred Wedlock . The Wisdom of The Wurzels: Virtute et Industrial The Wisdom of The Wurzels Virtute et Industrial Friday, 8 April 2011 Alright. I'll admit it. Some of these entries are written with my tongue stuffed rather firmly up against my cheek. I was fully intending to do the same with this one. But I can't. Me, with my tongue in my cheek. Honest. Virtute at Industrial is, frankly, a work of genius. The song, written by Adge, pays tribute - well, sort of - to Bristol, the biggest city in the South West. The song made it's first appearance on 1966 LP (remember those?) Adge Cutler at the Wurzels. It takes its title from the motto of the City of Bristol - Virtute Et Industria, or virtue and industry.

Why the additional 'L'? I have no idea. Clearly thinking they were onto a good thing - and they were, The Wurzels re-recorded this song for their 2004 A Taste of the West album, although it was titled Virtuet Industrial. Either because we can't spell down in Zummerzet, or because they wanted to draw on people's presuppositions that people in Zummerzet don't know Latin. (As Pete says in the intro, "It's all Greek to I..") Based in fact, yo. As much as I want to try and convince everyone it's actually about Zen and the art of City Maintenance, the fact is that this is a social commentary up there with the words of Billy Bragg, Bob Dylan and..ugh, U2, I suppose. But WAY less annoying than U2. Anyway. The first thing about this song is that it's REALLY, REALLY long. 12 verses, in fact. And it's clearly a fond look at Bristol and it's people, but without the rose-tinted specs so often seen in songs about forgetfully leaving your heart in one city or another, cities that never sleep, or it being a helluva place.

Rose-coloured glasses and Wurzel shirts just don't go, I guess. So we begin with: Oh, we be Bristol kiddies/We comes from Bristol City/Where all the blokes is handsome/And all the birds is pretty/Weem proud of our 'ome town/It never gets we down/and we got a little motto/What we sing up Bedminster Down And then of course, we come to a sort of chorus, which basically just involves singing Virtute et Industria and then something funny, after it. Verse two play homage to Bristol City and Rovers, those two great titans, locked in an eternal Montague/Capulet style feud, but while kicking balls around a field. It's not until the third verse that the song takes a bit of a sideways step into more serious issues. Praise the City Fathers/'Cos they know what they'n doin'/Don't listen to they moaners/Who says weem going' to ruin Ah, yes. They Moaners (tm).

The bread and butter of local newspapers - as much as Angry from Manchester managed to keep Points of View on TV for about 400-odd years, They Moaners (tm) have been helping reporters to fill pages by raising those little issues that councils like to sweep under the rug, like cutting funding to just about everything, making some rather interesting decisions and not following procedures terribly well. It's free to go in! They talks of Portbury/But I aint kiddin' thee/Who wants docks/When all the locks/On the lavatories be free? Because, yes. Who needs jobs? Who needs training? Why does a city need to recalls it's industrial heritage? Look! Look at our toilets! You don't have to pay to use them! Long live all the brewers/Build more pubs and bettin' shops/Don't waste the cash on sewers/Virtute et Industrial/Lets have another drink/Virtute et Industrial/An' never mind the stink Now a major tourist attraction! Sewers? Pft. No need for infrastructure. Let's just rush through some more pubs to keep the locals happy and maybe they won't notice the overflowing manholes and leaking pipes all over the place.

Actually, to give the city council their dues, during the 1970s they did start to improve the city's sewers - although, with the Current Financial Climate (tm), who knows what the future holds? Oh we be livin' well/Bad times is in the distance/We lives it up like hell/On National Assistance/It tain't that we do shirk/To do a bit of work/But if you coulst live without it/Well, who'd be such a berk? Dear Sir. This sums up everything that is wrong with today's broken Britain. Clearly the person writing this is a single mother on benefits, and probably an immigrant. Oh, if only Diana was alive... Yours sincerely, Daily Mail Reader. This would never have happened on my watch, sonny. OK, there's another verse about a church with a steeple that's most likely a reference to people living in glass houses not throwing stones, and then a verse which will ring true to anyone who ever tried to get out of Bristol on a Friday night.

Let progress be our watch word/Hooray for all the planners/They keeps the traffic flowing/And never minds the tanners/From Lulsgate thees could tear/To Paris, now by air/But the buses down Old Market/Is enough to make thee swear What's the phrase? Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose? And if anything, with local councils bringing the axe down on just about everything they can at the moment, this line's probably as relevant today as it was however-many years ago. We've got a little bit about the Severn Bridge in the next verse, leading us on to: Yeah, that's just super. Big fan. With one way streets and flyovers/We knows which way ween facing/Has you seen our brand new bridge/Down at Cumberland Basin?/The cars go by like thunder/Up and round and under/Just where they goes/No bugger knows/And t'aint no bleedin' wonder I could get lost in a square room. I have no sense of direction and I still rather proud that I'm capable of turning up at the correct house each night. It's not surprising that I got stuck in the Bristol one-way system once.

I think I was there for about four hours and ended up halfway to Weston before I was able to find somewhere to turn around. I feel Adge's pain. Zooooooooooooom! Our town will last for ever/If we can't build the Concorde/We'll buy 'n on the never/Virtute et Industrial/Who got ten million quid/Virtute et Industrial/well, ther thee bist then kid Ah Concorde. Super. Throughout the 1960s and 1970's the British Government happily threw more money than the third world debt (probably) at Bristol, in the hope of building the world's first supersonic plane. It probably seemed like a good idea at the time. Total development costs – more than £1,100 million. Operating costs – more than 2½ times as much as modern subsonic jets. The sonic boom, which over sparsely populated Cornwall produced compensation of £4 per mile on test runs; added to its dubious impact on the stratosphere. Concorde is just about the largest single waste of men and resources that capitalism has yet discovered. Woohoo! This, or.... ...this?

The best of British luck/To the Mayor and Corporation/They just come back from France/A credit to the Nation/Now, mind you keep it dark/But they reckon the old Town Clerk/Bought back they Follies Bergeres/In exchange for Ashton Park ..to be fair, that's not a bad swap, really. Virtute et Industrial/Up the Downs on Sundays/We spent the rent on Saturdays/Down Nelson Street on Mondays/Virtute et Industrial/May Bristol never fail/Virtute et Industrial/Till weem all out Arno's Vale A translation, for the non-native speakers: The Downs - a huge open area near Clifton Nelson Street - where the old Labour Exchange/Job Centre/Whatever they're called now used to be. Arno's Vale - another area of Bristol near Brislington. Which just happens to have a huge cemetery. So, basically: "We love our city, but the people running it don't know jack." Jack. Kinda hard to be a smart-arse on this one, considering the times we live in. I promise to be glibber next time.

Posted by Laura at 06:43 Julie Burchill | Life and style | The Guardian Life and style Friday 20 June 2003 21.23 EDT First published on Friday 20 June 2003 21.23 EDT Share on Messenger Close The city motto of Bristol, believe it or not, is "Virtute et Industria" - Virtue and Industry. It's a great place, but do you wonder I had to leave? It's like someone was having a laugh. I feel much more at home in Brighton, whose motto used to be "In Deo Fidemus", In God We Have Faith, because I do. However, some municipal do-gooder must have thought this unfair to atheists, because now our slogan is, in English, Between Downs And Sea We Flourish, and I can't argue with that, either.

Still, I can't help thinking even this could be improved, as suggested by a clever man called David Gray (not the singer): "The real motto should be whatever the Latin is for We Have It Away By The Sea, and the crest would show two burglars loading an old table into a van, the interior of which already includes a mixed group enjoying multiple acts of love." Thankfully, there's nothing in our new motto about Diversity and Empowerment - but it's for sure that one day these weaselly words will end up on a coat of arms in some godforsaken new town. Diversity first. I must say, considering Brighton council's harping on this word and our new "city" status, I'm amazed this low blow hasn't made it on to a letter heading somewhere in BN1. Still, there's always time: from June 18-25, Brighton is staging its first "Refugee Film Festival" to celebrate Refugee Week.

Of course, the likelihood is that it won't feature any films by refugees - just by white, middle-class liberals with access to private education and private healthcare, telling the indigenous working class of this country exactly why they should be over the moon about sharing their already ramshackle public services with tens of thousands more people each year, and people who've never paid taxes in this country to boot. Actually, I'm becoming less anti-economic migrant by the week - if I hadn't had the brilliant luck to be born here, I can see that I, too, might go to any lengths to get my slice of the cake with the red, white and blue icing on it. But I do still object to the patronising, offensive manner in which the working class are told by their "betters" that they have to like it or lump it. Stop banging on the "diversity" drum, telling us how lucky we are to have them, because it doesn't feel lucky when a bunch of Albanians waltzes into the coun-cil housing for which you thought you were next in line.

No, just play up the patriotic, sympathetic angle; that is, that most countries are, quite frankly, crap to live in, and if you lived there, you'd want to come here, too. Some are born diverse, some achieve diversity and some have diversity thrust upon them - but "empowerment" is something you're meant to achieve for yourself. And while diversity is broadly political, empowerment is personal - and one for the ladies, at that. Though there are exceptions: two years after central government delivered a whopping £36m and the promise of "empowerment", all my working-class, council-housed East Brighton friends can see are "forums" of middle-class Londoners earning fat salaries from talking about how to make "better" the lives of local residents. Well, the council not badgering them to relocate as far afield as Manchester - all the better to free up that chichi council housing for the gay, rich, white men working in "communications" that help make our new city so "diverse" - might help, for a start. Maybe empowerment is better left to individuals, but I wonder.

A century ago, Rebecca West said, "I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute"; these days, acting like a doormat and/or prostitute is what "empowers" a woman. Progress, eh! The Onion headline said it best: Women now empowered by everything a woman does. And "everything" will usually take in wearing thongs ("I find beautiful lingerie very empowering," says soap starlet Sarah Parrish), pole-dancing, going to strip clubs (no doubt "empowering" other women, too, by leering at their tits) or being bossed about by some man ("The Angels don't take orders: they're empowered by a wonderful man," simpers Drew Barrymore). Ooo, those children who used to go up chimneys; they were pretty empowered, weren't they? And as for pit ponies... bring it on! But the most inaccurately alleged "empowerment" must be that involving the use of sex aids by adult women.

Not a week goes by without some abandoned thirtysomething showbiz wife picking up a handful of Technicolor vibrators at Coco de Mer, and we're all meant to cheer at how "empowered" she is! I'm sorry, but am I missing something - if it's tragic for an adult to have an imaginary friend or video pet, why isn't it much worse to have a fantasy fuck? Do you have to, like, wash it afterwards? What about if you catch sight of your face in the mirror while doing so - do you feel "empowered" then? I wouldn't - I know what I'd think. I'd think, "Sod it, I never expected still to be jerking off at my age!" And I'd feel really, really lonely. Maybe I'm getting old, but I just don't get it. Diversity and Empowerment, Empowerment and Diversity - mmm, suddenly Virtue and Industry don't seem half so bad.

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About Bristol Motto: "Virtute et Industria" "By Virtue and Industry" Location of Bristol as a ceremonial county in England Coordinates: 51°27′N 2°35′W﻿ / ﻿51.450°N 2.583°W﻿ / 51.450; -2.583 Sovereign state United Kingdom Constituent country England Region South West England Ceremonial county Bristol (County corporate) Admin HQ Bristol Royal Charter 1155 County status 1373 Government • Type Unitary authority, City • Governing body Bristol City Council • Leadership Mayor and Cabinet • Mayor George Ferguson • MPs Chris Skidmore (C) Kerry McCarthy (L) Charlotte Leslie (C) Dawn Primarolo (L) Stephen Williams (LD) Area • City, Unitary authority & County 40 sq mi (110 km2) Elevation 36 ft (11 m) Population (2011 est.) • City, Unitary authority & County 428,234 (Ranked 10th amongst English Districts / 43rd amongst Ceremonial Counties) • Density 1

0,080/sq mi (3,892/km2) • Urban 617,000 (2,011 ONS estimate) • Metro 1,006,600 (LUZ2,009) • Ethnicity 84.0% White (77.9% White British) 5.5% Asian 6.0% Black 3.6% Mixed Race 0.3% Arab 0.6% Other Time zone GMT (UTC0) Postcode BS Area code(s) 0117 ISO 3166 code GB-BST ONS code 00HB (ONS) E06000023 (GSS) OS grid reference ST595726 NUTS 3 UKK11 Website bristol.gov.uk/ Bristol (i/ˈbrɪstəl/) is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone (LUZ) with an estimated 1,07

0,000 residents in 2007.

It is Englands sixth and the United Kingdoms eighth most populous city, one of the Core Cities Group and the most populous city in South West England. Historically in Gloucestershire, the city received a Royal charter in 1155 and was granted County status in 1373. From the 13th century, for half a millennium, it ranked amongst the top three English cities after London, alongside York and Norwich, on the basis of tax receipts, until the rapid rise of Liverpool, Birmingham and Manchester during the Industrial Revolution in the latter part of the 18th century. It borders the counties of Somerset and Gloucestershire, and is also located near the historic cities of Bath to the south east and Gloucester to the north. The city is built around the River Avon, and it also has a short coastline on the Severn Estuary, which flows into the Bristol Channel. Bristol is the largest centre of culture, employment and education in the region. Its prosperity has been linked with the sea since its earliest days. The commercial Port of Bristol was originally in the city centre before being moved to the Severn Estuary at Avonmouth; Royal Portbury Dock is on the western edge of the city boundary.

In more recent years the economy has depended on the creative media, electronics and aerospace industries, and the city centre docks have been regenerated as a centre of heritage and culture. There are 34 other populated places named Bristol, most in the United States, but also in Peru, Canada, Jamaica, Barbados,[11] and Costa Rica, all presumably commemorating the original.[12][13] People from Bristol are termed Bristolians.[14] Open N402 Slinger Signaller training courses near our Bristol training centre Make An Enquiry Or Book This Training Here Please use the form below to book or make an enquiry for this N402 Slinger Signaller course being held in Bristol Step 1: How would you like to proceed? Please choose one of the following options Send me a quotation by Email Contact me by phone to discuss Step 2: Delegates virtute - Wiktionary virtute "Virtute et armis" is Mississippi 's state motto. "Virtute et industria" is the city motto of Bristol . Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book [1] , London: Macmillan and Co.

(ambiguous) to be virtuous: virtute praeditum, ornatum esse (opp. vitiis obrutum esse) (ambiguous) to live as scrupulously moral a life as ever: nihil ex pristina virtute remittere (ambiguous) to consider virtue the highest good: summum bonum in virtute ponere (ambiguous) to deviate from the path of virtue: a virtute discedere or deficere (ambiguous) to deteriorate: a maiorum virtute desciscere, degenerare, deflectere (ambiguous) moral precepts: praecepta de moribus or de virtute (ambiguous) to give moral advice, rules of conduct: de virtute praecipere alicui (ambiguous) good luck to you: macte virtute (esto or te esse iubeo) Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary 2008.

Question: Which UK city has the motto Virtute et Industria ?
Answer: BRISTOL