Scottish Accent

wirm

I love the Scottish accent! Theres just something about it!

Ali1501

Cerbera wrote:

I used to go out with a gorgeous lass from Aberdeen who had the most amazing sexy Scottish accent. Funnily enough she thought my Irish accent was lovely even though I'm from N. Ireland :rotfl:
It was like listening to the Colin and Edith show on Radio One :rotfl:

I luuurrrvveee the N. Ireland accent.....she must have been a lucky girl Cerb

blossom30

Hi, I'm Scottish and proud of my accent....Ewan Macgregor, Sean Connery, Billy Boyd, David Tennant, Dougary Scott, Cameron (Big Brother) Kelly Macdonald,Lorraine Kelly, to name but a few successful Scots

F1F1

Trow wrote:

And Hi to F1F1 too - not seen you one here for a while!

Hi Trow! Not been posting very much - too busy!

nessie_3

I'm from Inverness, but have worked in radio and tv broadcasting (over the border) for 13 years. My accent has always been a help - getting paid to talk - it's great !

Caveman_4

I think education and parental attitudes play a great part in moulding our accents. I was brought up in Cumbernauld and regarded as a snob because i was reasonably well spoken. Some of the kids in my class would have been unintelligible to anyone outwith West Central Scotland, thats unfortunate for them and very limiting. My parents cared and hence i received regular "correction" from them if i wasn't speaking properly. The benefit is i am easily understood wherever i am in the UK or elsewhere. Its obvious i am Scottish but i don't sound like Rab C Nesbitt. I live in Belfast now and its very similar to Glasgow and its suburbs. People are eulogising about the NI accent. Yeah its lovely on a well spoken person but try to understand a wee hairy from certain sh**y areas and you'll be thoroughly baffled and not in the least bit starry eyed.

Another interesting thing i noted during childhood was the slight changes in parlance due to locality. Cumbernauldians would used "by the way" at the end of every sentence but if you pass the viaduct on the outskirts of Castlecary then anyone beyond here and onto Falkirk would use "d'ye ken" and other such "tchoucter" speech.

Lastly i never understood the compulsion to be proud of our accent/country. It reminds me of Bill Hicks, his thoughts on the matter were, "Why would i be proud just because my parents f**k*d there". I don't think his mum enjoyed his shows to much;-)

Fifer

Caveman wrote:

People are eulogising about the NI accent. Yeah its lovely on a well spoken person but try to understand a wee hairy from certain sh**y areas and you'll be thoroughly baffled and not in the least bit starry eyed.

You could say that about any 'wee hairy' from any area of any country. I don't believe that accent is the issue. A properly constructed sentence (even in a dialect) spoken clearly in any accent should be easily understood by anyone taking the care to listen. I don't belive there's any need for subtitles on 'Eastenders', 'Coronation Street' or 'The Bill' for example?

Caveman_4

Fifer, I suppose your right. Maybe my point is that being well spoken is somehow regarded as dilluting your accent. I work for a company with its UK HQ in London. Whenever i am over there they assume i am somewhat less "Scotch" because i am noweher near as bad as that Rab C guy off the Telly.

Fifer

Caveman wrote:

Fifer, I suppose your right. Maybe my point is that being well spoken is somehow regarded as dilluting your accent.

I know what you mean Caveman; I'm quite happy with my accent, but try to take care to speak in a way that others can understand. That said, I see nothing wrong with using Scots phrasing and structure where it differs from English.

Caveman wrote:

I work for a company with its UK HQ in London. Whenever i am over there they assume i am somewhat less "Scotch" because i am noweher near as bad as that Rab C guy off the Telly

I sympathise. My company's headquarters are in London too, so I'm familiar with that sort of introverted, ignorant, metropolitan arrogance. They tend to assume that everyone living between Watford Gap and Hadrians Wall speaks like Hilda Baker and everyone north of that speaks like Rab. It would be funny if it wasn't so pathetic. Fortunately, I find it isn't universal.

jackieb

I don't actually hate my accent but it sounds funny if you hear it on TV. Years ago, on It'll Be Alright On The Night there was clip from our local news.They were interviewing a local fisherman and there was loads of laughter (probably canned mind you ). He just sounded normal to me. He hadn't said anything funny. He didn't fall down. They were just laughing at his accent lol.

The nearest accent to mine on TV I suppose is Roisin (sp) from River City. I don't think i'm quite as broad as her though.

One time my mum was on the phone talking in her 'pan loaf' voice. She was saying 'oh, I ken, I ken', My sister and me were in hysterics. :rotfl: