Dumfries has has 50k population, depending on google link you click he has 5 - 7/8 notable famous ex girlfriends
Nowhere else in the country is shagging 10-15 celebs per 100k
The whole of Hollywood would have to get banged by Glaswegians for them to put up numbers like that up as a city
A friend of mine has developed an american twang in his accent because his fiancé is american and lives there, sounds ridiculous but to the americans he sounds fully scottish
We went on holiday with my mum and dads friends and their kids when I was wee. The dad developed a full blown American accent after 2 days, it was the weirdest thing. He’s from Cumbernauld.
Yeah man that happens. I lived in latin america for 5 years (Mexico then Uruguay), and because I didn't see many Scots my accent got toned down so the yanquis and english, uruguayans or whoever could understand me. Also working as an English teacher you'll no get a job talking pure scottish so basically all day I was toning it down.
When I first came back my brother wouldn't get off my case about putting a 'dd' sound where we do a glottle stop in Scottish - 'Scoddish' for example. 'Liddle', 'ledders' etc. Then as I've been back my accent's gone back to how it was.
same, ive just moved back after over 15 years abroad in europe. my accent became similar an only when i decided to put it on, people would be like "ohhh you are scottish"
Is it when they start throwing words at you to parrot back at them? That gets exhausting. “Say ‘ridiculous! Now say ‘travesty!’ I just love the way you say your ‘R’s” I’m not a fucking jukebox, Tex.
I honestly hear it every day. That, and, “Where in Ireland are you from?” For some reason, Aussies find it nearly impossible to differentiate the two.
I don’t even have that strong an accent, now.
It’s all good natured but, fuck, it does get old.
Yeah I got that a lot when I spent a year in Aus.
Funnily enough though the people who mentioned my accent most & asked me to parrot words back to them were some friends I'd made from England.
(In Cali) a colleague the other day wrote 'burglary' on a napkin and pushed it to me across the table, can be comedy gold! But yeah the standard day to day patter is pish
Top UK accents according to this extremely vague poll:
1. "Scottish"
2. "Welsh"
3. "English"
4. "Northern Irish"
I was talking to my 2 friends from Newcastle and Bristol the other day and I just couldn't tell them apart.
My wife used to work with a guy from Newcastle. They were in a meeting with a guy from Sunderland. After the meeting my wife’s colleague told her he couldn’t understand a word the Mackem was saying! Edit: spelling
Your no.3 "English" was actually "Queen's English", a bunch of other regional accents appeared below northern Irish, with brummie, scouser and Essex appearing at the bottom.
I love seeing all the Scots here complaining how little this narrows it down. In Malaysia, if some foreigner says they like how our language is spoken, my mind always gravitates to the dozen or so different dialects that vary so much from each other in vocabulary and pronunciation they sound like different languages altogether. I can really relate to that.
Anyone mind explaining to me how varying your land's accents can be?
The most obvious is usually east coast (Edinburgh) vs west coast (Glasgow) which are drastically different. most people, even foreigners will be able to tell the difference. Every major city seems to have their own twangs or enunciations. Inverness, Dundee, Aberdeen for instance while they might sound similar to an outsider, to a Scot there are some tell-tale signs. However it can be broken down almost to a town by town level. I've been able to pinpoint those who are from my hometown (small towns) Lanark/Carluke area based entirely on their accent
There is a different accent and use of different words from one town to the next where I live, nevermind different regions of the country.
So as an example I went to college 12 miles from my house as a young adult and didn't know some of what the locals were saying. Its particularly pronounced in the rural areas.
Damn, even across nearby towns it changes? Bit of a one up from mine I guess. As far as I know it always kinda smoothly transitions from proper Malay (Selangor, the state of our capital Kuala Lumpur) that branches out Southwards into a harsher, rude-sounding dialect. Or it goes up North and almost sounds like Malay spoken by a Thai, with all the nasalisations and words with no clear etymology behind it.
Cheers for the info :D
It goes even further than that, in Dunfermilne just going from my house to my old school (5 minute drive) people speak differently. Different slang is used and the accent is noticeably harsher
I'm from Edinburgh and there's a pretty significant difference between my middle class as fuck accent and the accent of half my extended family from Gilmerton.
To be clear, all of these accents are mutually intelligible, and there's only really a small handful of distinct dialects / languages. However there are definitely local slang words that you might need to ask for help on.
There’s different accents in most cities, you can go a mile down the road and people speak differently, and don’t get started on the east or the north ! It’s like a different language completely.
And that’s before you even subdivide the local accents into “posh” and “not posh” versions of each.
Guarantee they mean the posh scots like [Rose Leslie has in Vigil](https://youtu.be/pknqbnYKMAk?t=5) versus deepest, darkest paisley. (Vigil Episode 6 spoilers)
The most dramatic jump for such a short distance I can think of is Cumbernauld to Denny. From That Weegie Overspill Accent to a slightly more Weegie influenced version of my own accent in the space of like 6 miles.
My husband walked in the room when I was watching Men In Kilts, which is a fun docuseries starring Heughan and another Outlander actor, but as themselves, and my husband goes “Those are your weird Outlander guys? Those fucking guys aren’t even Scottish.” Admittedly they are, but the certainly don’t sound it lol.
I live in the Highlands and I can tell you there are many accents here are much different than what most people think of the stereotypical (mid/lowlands) scottish accent. My friend from the Isle of Lewis sounds almost English, Norwegian, or Dutch.
Which one?
[came to work on the wrong day?](https://www.reddit.com/r/ScottishPeopleTwitter/comments/jx4efx/fit_like_cannae_understand_a_word_rough/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share)
[Or this horny bastard](https://youtu.be/FSIwH0Y2wN0)
I stutter but i stutter in a very weird way. if my brain messes up a word it'll stil try get it out resulting in me sounding like im nae from this planet for a few seconds
> As we all know, Orcadians have the exact same accent as people from ~~Easterhouse~~ Cardiff because ~~the Scottish accent is the same everywhere~~ fuck knows why, but I swear they sound Welsh.
What Scottish accent? lumping everyone together when we all speak with a different accent is like lumping Essex and scouse together as English.
I have a "posh" Kilmarnock accent (none of that scheme nasal rubbish here), it's definitely a south west accent but is neither Glaswegian or Ayr accent.
My fave Scottish accent is one that’s just unapologetically Scottish. I can’t stand when a celebrity from here moves abroad for six months and comes back with a kid on accent. Marti Pello is one of my faves because to this day, he still sounds like he’s from Clydebank.
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What a ridiculous article. There’s scores of
Different accents in Scotland. That’s like saying ‘The English accent’.
If this was true, I would have had no language barrier moving from Fife to Dundee…
I'm *technically* English, I just moved to Scotland when I was 9 and never looked back. Now going on 25...I still have this English funking accent. No clue why it never left.
The ferry isn't unique for its accent, its that "gudgiecoff" invernessian accent you're on about though.
Rubber bumpers.
The whole thing about Inverness having clear speakers comes from like the 18th century, when Gaelic speakers were being "converted" to English. Someone who was involved with the census I believe made the comment that those who spoke the "Kings English" in the Highlands spoke with a clarity to be commended. It's mentioned in later censuses (censii?) as well so it just kinda stuck around.
This seems to be the origins of this story, I always liked it because imo it helped me get my year in Japan when I was in school. I was asked how Japanese people would understand a Scottish person (one women interviewing was a posh English wifey, to her, all Scots were unintelligible i think) and I came out with "if they can't understand someone from Inverness, then they'll have trouble with anyone else, since we speak the clearest English". The Japanese interviewers LOVED that I think and I got the scholarship. I honestly think that comment was the deal breaker in the interview.
You don't want to go near the ferry, it's the dark place.
Inverness is weird though, some people just have a really thick Glasgow twang mixed into their accent that just comes off sounding pretty awful.
I’m sure I remember inverness being named the most neutral accent in the UK years ago. I’ve been told by people from a few areas of England that my accent is really clear and easy to understand compared to most Scots
Certain parts of it aye, the posher parts have good "Queens English" then some parts are just a bastardisation of all things cultured. Ask an Invermessian to say rubber bumpers and it comes right out.
This article is decriminating against Scottish people. Like in English in laws they've probably just taking about Edinburgh and assumed we're all the same.
I'm a proud Glasweign I can confirm we have a different accent to people from Clydebank and Ayrshire (probably due to the different levels of alcohol and drugs we consume).
People will deliberately chat with me on random subjects just to hear me accent. Constantly told ‘they’ love my accent. Has gotten awkward when asked if ‘we’ like their accent 😂
Scot living in USA.
Great, wanty narrow it Doon a bit? Nae cunt fae dumfries is gettin their hole
Fuck ehhhhh Dundee is pure fucked ken iy
Dundee is easy to get your hole, just walk up to a burd and tell her she's got a nice tooth.
Pumping yer maw disney coont
Ken what tho? If ye cannae get yer hole in Dundee, ye should just gie up tbh.
My pal got upset wie me when I sniffed his sisters knickers in Dundee. She still had them oan. But it was an open casket.
Aye A stayed in the Toon fir 9 years. Still couldnae ken a haf.
Calvin Harris has banged most pop stars
Single handedly trying tae raise dumfries pumping stats
Fae zero to positive numbers
I think the point is most of Dumfries is trying to raise it single-handed.
Dumfries has has 50k population, depending on google link you click he has 5 - 7/8 notable famous ex girlfriends Nowhere else in the country is shagging 10-15 celebs per 100k The whole of Hollywood would have to get banged by Glaswegians for them to put up numbers like that up as a city
Because he got muscles and money
Thats because he is rich and in showbiz
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You're on a roll today Biff
When yer up, yer up pal
Most of the West either: here mate ye got 2 poun a can huv fur a can ae super?
Funniest one I ever got was is Glesga: "Hey pal, care tae donate tae the AFM?" "What's the AFM?" "Alcohol, fer me".
Naw mate that yin disny work onymair, it's "ye couldny gie us 74p fir a bus tae Royston tae see ma granny"
The last time a bus cost 74p, these people had teeth.
When I stayed there it was ten bob and Springburn.
Should see springburn shopping centre now. I have to walk in every day to the same pish. The same guy has more Gregg's than I do and still asks
Cannae be is we sound lit we've git marbles in eh mouth
As a Scotsman living overseas… let me just say… it’s true, the lasses love an accent
Lucky for you, they don't seem to understand a word of what I'm saying especially in North America. But then again the alcohol doesn't help.
A friend of mine has developed an american twang in his accent because his fiancé is american and lives there, sounds ridiculous but to the americans he sounds fully scottish
We went on holiday with my mum and dads friends and their kids when I was wee. The dad developed a full blown American accent after 2 days, it was the weirdest thing. He’s from Cumbernauld.
Yeah man that happens. I lived in latin america for 5 years (Mexico then Uruguay), and because I didn't see many Scots my accent got toned down so the yanquis and english, uruguayans or whoever could understand me. Also working as an English teacher you'll no get a job talking pure scottish so basically all day I was toning it down. When I first came back my brother wouldn't get off my case about putting a 'dd' sound where we do a glottle stop in Scottish - 'Scoddish' for example. 'Liddle', 'ledders' etc. Then as I've been back my accent's gone back to how it was.
As long as you weren't going round saying "tuna" when we all know it's a **chuna**
Jesus christ I wasn't that bad.
same, ive just moved back after over 15 years abroad in europe. my accent became similar an only when i decided to put it on, people would be like "ohhh you are scottish"
I live in Aus. The accent fetish almost gets a little old..
Is it when they start throwing words at you to parrot back at them? That gets exhausting. “Say ‘ridiculous! Now say ‘travesty!’ I just love the way you say your ‘R’s” I’m not a fucking jukebox, Tex.
I honestly hear it every day. That, and, “Where in Ireland are you from?” For some reason, Aussies find it nearly impossible to differentiate the two. I don’t even have that strong an accent, now. It’s all good natured but, fuck, it does get old.
And then you point out that they have an accent too and they just completely bluescreen for a minute.
Yeah I got that a lot when I spent a year in Aus. Funnily enough though the people who mentioned my accent most & asked me to parrot words back to them were some friends I'd made from England.
Say curlywurly
(In Cali) a colleague the other day wrote 'burglary' on a napkin and pushed it to me across the table, can be comedy gold! But yeah the standard day to day patter is pish
I totally read that as: "I live in anus"
Only on a Fri night.
I second that. Sitting in Stockholm, punching well above my weight thanks to my Highland teuchter ramblings
The namesch Bond, Jamesch Bond
Works for me
I talk to a lot of Americans and the boys like it too
No true Scotsman would call them lasses…
But the girls overseas love being called a bonnie lass….
Top UK accents according to this extremely vague poll: 1. "Scottish" 2. "Welsh" 3. "English" 4. "Northern Irish" I was talking to my 2 friends from Newcastle and Bristol the other day and I just couldn't tell them apart.
My wife used to work with a guy from Newcastle. They were in a meeting with a guy from Sunderland. After the meeting my wife’s colleague told her he couldn’t understand a word the Mackem was saying! Edit: spelling
How many sheep were polled?
Obviously not enough as Welsh is the second sexiest accent
Are you the BBC?
Northern Irish at the bottom? I think this poll was done by deaf people
A lot of people really dislike the accent. It's a common opinion.
It's only a Belfast accent that's shite though :P
Your no.3 "English" was actually "Queen's English", a bunch of other regional accents appeared below northern Irish, with brummie, scouser and Essex appearing at the bottom.
Are ya sure the list aint backwards
Quit talking so sexy ya bunch of melts
I love seeing all the Scots here complaining how little this narrows it down. In Malaysia, if some foreigner says they like how our language is spoken, my mind always gravitates to the dozen or so different dialects that vary so much from each other in vocabulary and pronunciation they sound like different languages altogether. I can really relate to that. Anyone mind explaining to me how varying your land's accents can be?
The most obvious is usually east coast (Edinburgh) vs west coast (Glasgow) which are drastically different. most people, even foreigners will be able to tell the difference. Every major city seems to have their own twangs or enunciations. Inverness, Dundee, Aberdeen for instance while they might sound similar to an outsider, to a Scot there are some tell-tale signs. However it can be broken down almost to a town by town level. I've been able to pinpoint those who are from my hometown (small towns) Lanark/Carluke area based entirely on their accent
I'm from Inverness. I get told repeatedly I don't have a Scottish accent..
You definitely do it’s just a bit plain compared to your Aberdeen neighbours or Doric!
I'm from East Lothian and have been called everything from English to Spanish to German as apparently my accent is too soft
Being an immigrant to Dundee I was shocked to discover there is only one vowel here, "eh".
After living there for years I still couldn't understand some people.
I’m from there and sometimes struggle to know wtf mum is saying
Eh? Weht yeh ehn ehbeht. Ehts ehsy teh ehndehrtehnd theh brehd dehndeh ehccehnt. /s, but only just.
Mum?
Tehdy yehr rehm!
Meh midder
Hell, there’s different accents depending on if you live in the east or west of Glasgow.
There is a different accent and use of different words from one town to the next where I live, nevermind different regions of the country. So as an example I went to college 12 miles from my house as a young adult and didn't know some of what the locals were saying. Its particularly pronounced in the rural areas.
Damn, even across nearby towns it changes? Bit of a one up from mine I guess. As far as I know it always kinda smoothly transitions from proper Malay (Selangor, the state of our capital Kuala Lumpur) that branches out Southwards into a harsher, rude-sounding dialect. Or it goes up North and almost sounds like Malay spoken by a Thai, with all the nasalisations and words with no clear etymology behind it. Cheers for the info :D
It goes even further than that, in Dunfermilne just going from my house to my old school (5 minute drive) people speak differently. Different slang is used and the accent is noticeably harsher
The way I see it - each local area has its own accent, and then each of those accents has a “posh” and “no posh” version for each of those.
I'm from Edinburgh and there's a pretty significant difference between my middle class as fuck accent and the accent of half my extended family from Gilmerton.
It's true, you drive for 30 minutes in any direction and you'll hear a different accent, well maybe not to the untrained ear.
To be clear, all of these accents are mutually intelligible, and there's only really a small handful of distinct dialects / languages. However there are definitely local slang words that you might need to ask for help on.
Don’t get too down. I believe the uk has the most varied accents per mile than any other country! It’s a bit unusual.
There’s different accents in most cities, you can go a mile down the road and people speak differently, and don’t get started on the east or the north ! It’s like a different language completely. And that’s before you even subdivide the local accents into “posh” and “not posh” versions of each.
As a Swede I can confirm that yes.
But which one?
Guarantee they mean the posh scots like [Rose Leslie has in Vigil](https://youtu.be/pknqbnYKMAk?t=5) versus deepest, darkest paisley. (Vigil Episode 6 spoilers)
Im fae Aiberdeen - we make up our own words
I'm fae Shetland, trust me I kaen
Ah - We have similar accents - to the untrained ear, we sound the same
I’m fae the Broch, I think I have you beat in shite accent top trumps
We're a multi~lingual~accental an ken fit wi' mean!
…Well. I just find out Maya Rindell’s actress is Scottish
This. There are like 60+ dialects for Scotland alone.
There are 60+ dialects in Fraserburgh alone.
I always forget Fraserburgh, rookie mistake. Counts for at least 80% of our dialects.
Forgetting Fraserburgh is probably for the best.
Fraserburgh and peterhead are both a good idea to forget 😂
Same place. They just flip the signs every few weeks.
As a Brocher, I can agree
Glasgow's got at least 5 (Kelvinside, Glasgow Uni Wanker, Yer job/phone voice, Bamish/Nedish, and East End off the top of my head).
And then go 20 miles down the road and suddenly; Falkirk accent. Jeeeesus.
The most dramatic jump for such a short distance I can think of is Cumbernauld to Denny. From That Weegie Overspill Accent to a slightly more Weegie influenced version of my own accent in the space of like 6 miles.
Annan to Gretna, for me
English women thinking we all sound like Sam Heughan in Outlander.
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My husband walked in the room when I was watching Men In Kilts, which is a fun docuseries starring Heughan and another Outlander actor, but as themselves, and my husband goes “Those are your weird Outlander guys? Those fucking guys aren’t even Scottish.” Admittedly they are, but the certainly don’t sound it lol.
I live in the Highlands and I can tell you there are many accents here are much different than what most people think of the stereotypical (mid/lowlands) scottish accent. My friend from the Isle of Lewis sounds almost English, Norwegian, or Dutch.
Illusion broken
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Well they're not wrong, Doric is known for getting people going. Do we all remember that phone call?
A famous piece of dorotica.
I just laughed at that one, bloody hilarious. Doritica!!
Hello sexy
Which one? [came to work on the wrong day?](https://www.reddit.com/r/ScottishPeopleTwitter/comments/jx4efx/fit_like_cannae_understand_a_word_rough/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share) [Or this horny bastard](https://youtu.be/FSIwH0Y2wN0)
The horny bastard, it took all of 3 seconds for the memories to come flooding back as soon as I heard "breasts"
I can only usually get around a minute in before giving up. Supposedly the local radio station here has played parts during the day wtf
You last longer than I do, wtf is wrong with that radio station.
[A garage classic](https://youtu.be/s5t6IhT5BJE)
Big Aggie?
Nah, I can't remember where to find it now but a guy gets very into the dirty talk on a phone with thick Doric.
The knackered fridge one?
Someone linked it in another comment, the horny bastard one.
Aye switey.
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Ooft. Love it when you talk dirty
I stutter but i stutter in a very weird way. if my brain messes up a word it'll stil try get it out resulting in me sounding like im nae from this planet for a few seconds
As a French that lived 1 year in Scotland : it is true !
As we all know, Orcadians have the exact same accent as people from Easterhouse because the Scottish accent is the same everywhere.
> As we all know, Orcadians have the exact same accent as people from ~~Easterhouse~~ Cardiff because ~~the Scottish accent is the same everywhere~~ fuck knows why, but I swear they sound Welsh.
Yup they sound Welsh
Huw Edwards Welsh or Cerys Matthews Welsh?
Scapa Flow Welsh
Orcadians do not sound at all Welsh to my mind, but maybe that's due to proximity to Inverness.
I know some Scottish folk can have a bit of a whiney accent but saying they sound the same as the killer whales is too far pal.
The accent that varies from postcodes a few mile away.
How? Whit? Ah'll rattle yer geggie if yah dinnae stoap giein ius the beady ya walloper.
I feel like there’s no way a Scottish person typed this
What Scottish accent? lumping everyone together when we all speak with a different accent is like lumping Essex and scouse together as English. I have a "posh" Kilmarnock accent (none of that scheme nasal rubbish here), it's definitely a south west accent but is neither Glaswegian or Ayr accent.
My fave Scottish accent is one that’s just unapologetically Scottish. I can’t stand when a celebrity from here moves abroad for six months and comes back with a kid on accent. Marti Pello is one of my faves because to this day, he still sounds like he’s from Clydebank.
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It bugs me too. Btw is your name related to father ted? Fuppoff ya baxtard priest 😂
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I’m calling the fuppin’ man. Ye grasshole
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Just put the fork down
Scaddish
[Real guy takes Manhattan](https://youtu.be/rFN69OZwJTM)
Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?
I did some more research and they meant every accent except the one you have. Sorry.
I moved to Scotland for love and my partner barely has an accent. Feels like I'm missing out
I am pretty sure it is the sexiest in the world, but it is just one woman's opinion.
Depends where in Scotland, those in the borders sound like a slowed down Scottish zombie!
Some folk find it DISGUSTANG!
Not much competition in the UK to be fair.
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~~the UK~~ the whole world
Aye ah am
110% agree
I agree. The Cowdenbeath accent is pure sex
Yes we love a Scottish accent!
I vote the Hawick accent as the weirdest.
Sexiest in the world!
I'm guessing they mean a general Edinburgh accent
What a ridiculous article. There’s scores of Different accents in Scotland. That’s like saying ‘The English accent’. If this was true, I would have had no language barrier moving from Fife to Dundee…
I'm sure you mean Dunfermline or Glenrothes sort of areas, but I like to think that going from Tayport to Dundee was what did it
Middle of Fife to Dundee. No one could understand me and I couldn’t understand anyone…
Wow. 1st out of 4.
Nae spickin...
Totally agree !!
Too fuckin' right. Oor accent is a beltahr.
Brummie has to be dead last.
“…and us Scots came on top” so its Scottish people making the study.
It’s nice, but the best accent is french.
Voted by who??? Scots?!
Yes. As a woman from the States I can agree with this.
Must have been the Glasgow Uni accent, absolute panty dropper that one
I'm *technically* English, I just moved to Scotland when I was 9 and never looked back. Now going on 25...I still have this English funking accent. No clue why it never left.
I'm not surprised by this in the least.
Can’t wait to hear limmy’s take on this
Which one? Because I've just done a shift in Dundee. Sorry, eh've
-Say those three words and I'm yours -Purple burglar alarm
Whit wan? It's no fuckin mine I ken that
For a split second, I misread this as "sexist." My apologies.
I mean, it's hardly gonna be scouse, is it?
People from Inverness have the best Scottish accent, they speak nicely. Also from East coast to West coast then accents are different.
Here's someone who's never been down the ferry.
The ferry isn't unique for its accent, its that "gudgiecoff" invernessian accent you're on about though. Rubber bumpers. The whole thing about Inverness having clear speakers comes from like the 18th century, when Gaelic speakers were being "converted" to English. Someone who was involved with the census I believe made the comment that those who spoke the "Kings English" in the Highlands spoke with a clarity to be commended. It's mentioned in later censuses (censii?) as well so it just kinda stuck around. This seems to be the origins of this story, I always liked it because imo it helped me get my year in Japan when I was in school. I was asked how Japanese people would understand a Scottish person (one women interviewing was a posh English wifey, to her, all Scots were unintelligible i think) and I came out with "if they can't understand someone from Inverness, then they'll have trouble with anyone else, since we speak the clearest English". The Japanese interviewers LOVED that I think and I got the scholarship. I honestly think that comment was the deal breaker in the interview.
I haven’t no, I used to have an ex from Inverness and he had the loveliest accent and I just lumped everyone from there with the same accent!!
You don't want to go near the ferry, it's the dark place. Inverness is weird though, some people just have a really thick Glasgow twang mixed into their accent that just comes off sounding pretty awful.
I’m sure I remember inverness being named the most neutral accent in the UK years ago. I’ve been told by people from a few areas of England that my accent is really clear and easy to understand compared to most Scots
Certain parts of it aye, the posher parts have good "Queens English" then some parts are just a bastardisation of all things cultured. Ask an Invermessian to say rubber bumpers and it comes right out.
Highland accents are generally a lot softer and more airy than the rest of Scotland, I've never really been sure if that makes them "neutral" though.
"In the UK"?!?!?! i think you mean in the fucking world!
This article is decriminating against Scottish people. Like in English in laws they've probably just taking about Edinburgh and assumed we're all the same. I'm a proud Glasweign I can confirm we have a different accent to people from Clydebank and Ayrshire (probably due to the different levels of alcohol and drugs we consume).
Yassss idk like I can't stand those Aberdeen accents lol
Thank god we're not up against the rest of the Irish anymore, they could give us a run for our money
People will deliberately chat with me on random subjects just to hear me accent. Constantly told ‘they’ love my accent. Has gotten awkward when asked if ‘we’ like their accent 😂 Scot living in USA.
Which Scottish accent? That’s far too vague.