Originally Posted by
kilted scholar
From another angle, the last time I was in the Highlands - in the Gairloch area - around 90% of the accents I heard were Dutch or German, or from the south of England, and the latter were evidently residents rather than tourists, as the Continentals probably were. I imagine that a large proportion of younger people raised in the Highlands move south in search of work.
An interesting observation there and had you been a fly on the wall the other evening you would have had to listen very long and very hard to detect even a smidgen of a Scots accent.
" Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the adherence of idle minds and minor tyrants". Field Marshal Lord Slim.
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