Scottish Accent

Bamaziga

Im born and bred in Scotland. My mom from Inverness, pop from Belfast and I live in East Kilbride. People say I have a strange lilt even though i have been in Lanarkshire all my life. I work with people from Perth who always say "ken" and "like" after all their sentences whereas all us Glaswegian area ppl all say "By The Way" after everything, well most of the blokes. All the ladies seem to say "Okie Dokie"!!!!!!! lol

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Fifer

I work with people from Perth who always say "ken" and "like" after all their sentences whereas all us Glaswegian area ppl all say "By The Way" after everything

Some Weegies also seem to use 'but' in the same way. Here in Fife, 'eh' (or maybe it should be 'ae', a drawn out effort like the letter 'A', rather than a short questioning 'eh?') appears to be the punctuation word of choice. To illustrate, here's a wee Fife joke. Chap frae Lumphinnans calls the call-centre for help with his software:

Support drone: "You access that feature by pressing Ctrl-A."
Lumphinnans Man: "A'm pressing control, but nuthin's happening, eh."

samanthaknd

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?

i kind of like my accent (im in central scotland, live in between edinburgh and glasgow lol 30 minutes to get either of the places not including traffic) But when I watch River City sometimes they make me cringe:(!
My accent is more like a weegie one, and my accent is very broad as well.

samanthaknd

Fran wrote:

You all sound great! :beer:

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

lol
wits that supposed tae mean eh? lol (joke)

skintscotsman

perhaps proud is the wrong way to describe how i feel about my accent, but i certainly don't hide it!

i grew up in falkirk and up until i was about 17/18 I probably used a lot of slang....I then moved to the South Coast of England and had to slow down and stop using slang....but I never EVER let go of my accent. In fact, Southerners were positively fascinated by my accent. I think once I slowed down and pronounced words slightly clearer my accent became a lot more listenable-to! I always found that,erm ,chatting up ladies was quite a pleasant task as they would always compliment me on my accent - not much else to compliment me on haha!

That said, some accents/dialect do make me cringe. I love hearing people's accents but when their diction is lazy, it really does my head in!

I've moved about in Southern England a lot as well and spent time in the Forces../haved moved back up to Central Scotland but people still say that my accent is slightly different to what it was like when I left school. Maybe got something to do with living with someone from the West Country, someone from Aberdeen, someone from Dorset, someone from Wales, someone from Yorkshire, someone from the Home Counties and someone from Manchester over a couple of years at Uni! Think we picked up all manner of random sayings from each other too!!!

Also, I hate hearing BBC accents....such a 'nothing' accent!!! Not so bad on the TV but just plain boring in the pub!

F1F1

froggergirl wrote:

The scottish accent is great - couldn't be more proud to have it and mines a good mix having moved about the north a fair bit - even the far north isles. Have to say the Orkney and Shetland accents are simply beautiful!!

I've lived in Shetland for 25 years and am Dundonian by birth, but didn't have a strong Dundonian accent even when I lived there! Folk used to ask me where I came from! Yes, the Northern Isles accents are unique! Orkney is different to Shetland, more melodic. Then the accent can vary a bit even within Shetland! My accent now is definitely Scottish but more of a soft, general one so makes it difficult for people to place where I'm from! <most guess Edinburgh/central belt>

amanda40

A shetlander on MSE - I love SHetland - been there the last two years on holiday, did you get any Boots offers up there?

topsales

A Dundonian by birth on MSE! Here's another one!!

superscotsman

Speaking seriously, certain accents are associated with class and education. For example my doctor has the same accent as my brother-in-law, bacause, although they come from different parts of the country, they both went to the University of Glasgow.
If you think that your accent is preventing you from getting ahead, try cultivating one of the university accents, and doors will be open to you throughout the UK.
I am originally from West Lothian. There is no purer speech in the entire UK.

grex9101

i'm proud of mine....

i find the scottish accent so much clearer than anywhere else's.

bugs the hell outta me when you hear certain people from certain parts of england pronouncing the g's in words.... pronouncinGGGGGG! that goes for K's too..

the only thing I find scots dont pronounce well is ANT and AUNT, the english seem to be able to say these better (ie not sounding the same)