Originally Posted by
neloon
To me, the first supposed Skye accent is Irish.
This?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ-pYQ8hpog
The guy was born and raised on Skye and lives there now, though he did spend time living off the island.
His accent is very similar to a Highland fellow I've known for years. I'll try to find "pure" examples, of people who spent their whole lives on one of the islands; it's true that someone can change their accent when they move about, depending usually on how old they were when they moved away. But about that fellow, now that he's back where he was raised his accent will steadily shift back to its original form.
Anyhow about Outlander it was nice to see the waulking with real waulking songs and the fual.
Last edited by OC Richard; 4th July 15 at 05:24 AM.
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