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I got a shock when I listened to some one explaining how to do something on Scotlands family Tree. I'd been reading the posts in "English" and could hardly understand the real thing.
Heather

I know a few from Inverness and the yare very clear.
I went to Skye a couple of years ago and it was lovely to hear their accent.


Marion

Years ago when OH was in the army I had to speak well
for our English friends to understand me as I'm from
Aberdeen, our Irish friends had no problem with my
accent. They say that if you are from Inverness you can
be understood because it is quite a well spoken accent.

Emmax

Hi PigletsPal, another South London girl here, currently living in South West Scotland, where it's not just the accent that is different, some of the words used are too. EG: "yin" for "one". My grandson, who comes from Lancashire, was amused to be called "the wee man".

The most annoying thing is not being able to understand the gossip in the local shop!

I pick up accents very easily and my uncle once said he had never heard anyone speaking with a South London/Irish/Birmingham accent - my husband is Irish and my best friend at the time was from Birmingham.

I came to London when I was about 7 years old from Glasgow .When my sister and I started school we qucikly lost our accents for fear of being made fun of , which we were by the way .

When I got older and took my OH , then my boyfriend home I had to translate what my Mum was saying to him as she used to talk very fast as I still do.

Now my grandaughters ask me to speak to them in my scottish accent , which I can quickly get back into , especially if I get angry , they think it's great, as if I'm speaking witha foreign accent .

I had relatives from Dundee and can still remember their thick brogue , and also relatives who lived in a small mining village outside Glasgow called Twechar , their accents were different to the Dundee ones .


jean

Hi Sylivia.

Its amazing isnt it?
My late Dad lived in Cheshire and you noticed a difference.

it's not that surprising in England!!


I was born about 9 miles northeast of Manchester


The accent in that town was completely different from the Manchester accent


Manchester and my home town are about 20-25 miles from Liverpool ............ and boy, are those accents different!



there were differences in accents in places only about 5 miles apart in Cheshire



sylvia

Hi Frank.
I used to have a Glasgow accent but kind of lost it along the way lol.
Had to speak a bit slower etc.

Eileen McCallum dont like her in that,she was better in 'Take the high road'

Marion

Could have been even worse,

I once made the mistake of asking a lovely old gentleman in Wick for directions to the local hospital as I had a delivery.......... WOW !!!

That was really amazing as I could not understand a word.

I do recall watching a TV program where the presenter went around Britain talking through all the different accents and it was quite intriguing to hear the accents change gradually as he moved around the coast.

My mum speaks "posh Scots" nowadays although she used to be quite rough and ready........ It's almost like listening to Eileen McCallum's character in "River City" compared to her character in "The Steamie" :))

LOLOL

You were just unlucky Foggy. It could have been worse he might have been a Peterhead fisherman playing bagpipes lol.



Marion

When I went up to Edinburgh, took a bus from the hotel to the GRO building and asked the driver to tell me when we were there,
He sounded like Rab C Nesbitt, I couldn't understand a word he said, luckily a woman siting next to me translated....LOL

Yes,that would be good.
I noticed the Dundee one said they say 'eh' a lot because of the factory work.

Marion

MGH.

I didnt think any of the accents on there were too bad atall.
Some one in my tree was a Gregor Mckenzie, he is on IGI as Griggor Mkinzie lol


Marion

Yes she tries to speak a bit posher. Her Glasgow accent would not be good enough for her.She still has the odd slip up.

She was on the dancing for comic relief the other night. and she says she has no 'help' to keep her looks lol she is looking well for 62 even though her lips looks like they have been glued on lol

If you watch neigbours, Andrew is a Scot too. He sometimes forgets and slips up too.

Marion

Lulu - saw her once at Glasgow Airport was on the same flight as me back to London. She looked terrible. Must have been around 1990.

Anyway, didn't she used to speak awfully posh at one time, hardly any trace of accent at all?

Then theres Lulu of course

lol

And I thought there were only two accents north of the border.

Glaswegian and Scottish.....!

Have a look on here.It's amazing how 20 miles apart and the accents can change.


http://www.ayecan.com/listen_to_scots/orkney.html


Marion