Can you help me with Scottish accent?

[LindyLoo]

I work in an office of about 50 people, and there are probably about 5 different Scottish accents in the mix. We have Weegie (Glaswegian), Lanarkshire (wannabe Weegies), Ayrshire, Perthshire, and a Perth/Glasgow mix.
Sometimes I'll go to work with my usual soft Weegie brogue (?!) and come back speaking like a teuchter!

PS There is NO part of Scotland without an accent, ye call always tell yer Dons fae yer Fifers. (And don't get me started on the Islanders!) ;-)

[JSFMACLJR]

As it turns out the man was in a play to be presented next month, and was playing the part of an elderly Scottish gentleman.

Darrell

There appears to be some confusion here. The man to whom Darrell referred wishes to speak like an "elderly Scottish gentleman." I do not think that they would speak Scots, the language found in the Electric Scotland website provided by Gilmore. Of course not knowing the play, it is difficult to know for certain the context the Scottish gentleman is in. Many of the Scottish gentlemen of my ken were educated south of the border, so their Scottish accent is a little..."softer." Scots wasn't/isn't the language spoken in the Highlands, anyway.

[Jock Scot]

That's pretty cool.

You know, I wish we could get some audio on the forum of Jock Scot talking. I just loved when we had that Youtube of Barb T. talking about her kilts. It's like you kind of wonder what people sound like here on the forum.

Oh my gosh! We need some audio of MacMillan of Rathdown! That would be a real kick.

Ted sit down before reading further! I am going to shatter one of your illusions.Sitting down? I am afraid I don't have a Scots accent!My accent is a combination of English public school,British army,and a wee tad of Gloucestershire-----Sorry Ted, it is as English as you can get.

[pdcorlis]

Theatrical dialects can be very different from the actual dialects of native speakers - similarly - theatrical sets are not built to construction code. Speaking of Scots dialects...

http://web.ku.edu/idea/europe/scotland/scotland.htm

[gilmore]

There appears to be some confusion here. The man to whom Darrell referred wishes to speak like an "elderly Scottish gentleman." I do not think that they would speak Scots, the language found in the Electric Scotland website provided by Gilmore. Of course not knowing the play, it is difficult to know for certain the context the Scottish gentleman is in. Many of the Scottish gentlemen of my ken were educated south of the border, so their Scottish accent is a little..."softer." Scots wasn't/isn't the language spoken in the Highlands, anyway.

My mistake. I missed the "gentleman" part, or rather, assumed it was being used in the Amercan manner, that is, to refer to any man, not necessaily an upper class man. Yes, Scottish gentlemen tend to speak RP (received pronunciation.) Most everyone else speaks Scots, or English with a Scots accent of varying degree, depending on to whom they are speaking, not unlike us US Southerners who speak "standard" American television English to non-Southerners, but Southern US English among ourselves and en famille.

[Bugbear]

Ted sit down before reading further! I am going to shatter one of your illusions.Sitting down? I am afraid I don't have a Scots accent!My accent is a combination of English public school,British army,and a wee tad of Gloucestershire-----Sorry Ted, it is as English as you can get.

That's fine with me, Jocks Scot. I' read your post somewhere about your early up bringing, so it doesn't surprise me at all.

That being said, I still would like to hear you talking just to know your voice.

[beloitpiper]

That can't be true, the only pure accent (no accent) is that of the american midwest !

Uff-da. Eh, you wanna come up 'ere to Wisconsin? Just be sure to watch out fer those stop-en-go lights.

[macwilkin]

Uff-da. Eh, you wanna come up 'ere to Wisconsin? Just be sure to watch out fer those stop-en-go lights.

Ya sure, youbetcha. Plenty of Scandhoovians in Iowa and "Minnesnowta" as well. I call my great-aunt and cousins in Cedar Falls sometimes just to hear the accent.

T.

[Howard Clark]

Well, I was kidding, and diving under the chair.

I think the variation in language is very interesting, and enjoy all of it. I have acted as interpreter at blacksmith events and knife shows a few times for communication between New Englanders and southerners, and Englishmen too.

The British Blades folk now have another thread going on Scot slang too.

[AL-58]

"Where do you come from?" the Scotsman asked an American.

"From the greatest country in the world," replied the American.

"Funny," said the Scotsman, "you've got the strangest Scottish accent I've ever heard."