Scottish Accent

bealzibub

I'm Scottish, but I hate my accent!

I also hate listening to people from certain areas of Scotland, they sound dead rough.

Do any other Scottish folk feel the same?

fluffyscruffy

Edinburgh accent is lovely!! My man used to live in Elgin, had to listen really carefuly to understand the locals!

Jinx

Im Scots too, but I quite like my accent.... Other nationalities that I deal with at work seem to really like dealing with us Scots folk.

My partner who is English loves my accent (central scotland) and helpfully means he has to pay attention to what I'm saying....!!!

littlereddevil

bealzibub wrote:

I'm Scottish, but I hate my accent!

I also hate listening to people from certain areas of Scotland, they sound dead rough.

Do any other Scottish folk feel the same?

Yeah i do i hate my accent! :cool:

BoltonMinx

I'm not scottish but I adore scottish accents - my BF is from Glasgow, his accent is yummy, he could read out a phonebook to me and I'd be hanging on to his every word *sigh*

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Nope! Without accents we would all sound like Disneyland announcers or BBC newsreaders. For goodness sake don't standardise the way we speak - life without the impenetrable Aberdonain, the lilt of the highlands and the Western Isles, the "growl" of the industrial heartland and even the English-impersonating good burghers of Edinburgh would be dull indeed.

There is an old cartoon in a "Puch on Scotland" book that I've got about a lad from Kirkcaldy who goes to London to make his fortune but returns after only a brief visit. His pal asks him why he came back and the reply was something like "Ach, ye ken it wis fine, bu' they couldni understoan ma oaksent" his pal replied "Oaksent? Oaksent? Ah didnae ken Fife fowk hud oany oaksent!"

Well..... it made me giggle!

Wild Rover

john0612

I love my accent (South West Ayrshire), anyone who i've came across seems to like it although it's fast and pure broad by the way lol.

Pink.

bealzibub wrote:

I'm Scottish, but I hate my accent!

I also hate listening to people from certain areas of Scotland, they sound dead rough.

Do any other Scottish folk feel the same?

Any Scottish accent that I have ever heard is lovely.

Just be glad that you don't come from Northern Ireland.........I hate my accent!

Pink

Edinburghlass_2

Being a good Edinburgher myself, well what can I say

Fran

You all sound great! :beer:

None of you sound very scottish in your posts....:rolleyes:

toozie_2

I love the accent, although I went on a course earlier this year with 3 people from Glasgow, one being the course tutor, and I found I was about 2 minutes behind the others understanding what was being said, because they were all talking soooo fast. By the time I'd grasped the last bit, they were 3/4 way through the next bit of information. Needless to say my head was abit battered, and we where in Newcastle (upon Tyne) so I had to contend with that accent too!! All great fun, but sometimes I had to ask them to slow down!!!:rotfl: