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Re: Would like some help with Scottish accent please
« Reply #18 on: Wednesday 25 July 18 21:19 BST (UK) »
A braw wee lassie frae Eastcheap, perhaps?

Was she staying there or just biding a while?
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Re: Would like some help with Scottish accent please
« Reply #19 on: Friday 27 July 18 19:56 BST (UK) »
Quote from: jbml on Wednesday 25 July 18 21:19 BST (UK)
A braw wee lassie frae Eastcheap, perhaps?

"frae" is not Scottish, no 'r' in fae!

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Re: Would like some help with Scottish accent please
« Reply #20 on: Saturday 28 July 18 01:37 BST (UK) »
Fae is used in Central and Northern Scotland! - Ayrshire and (probably) Dumfrieshire as well. 😄
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Re: Would like some help with Scottish accent please
« Reply #21 on: Saturday 28 July 18 07:46 BST (UK) »
As someone born in Scotland who lived his formative years in Scotland I would say

 "What's a nice girl from Eastcheap doing in a draughty Scottish castle"

Accents depend on location, very often as in Scotland quite precise location, parentage, time period, class, education and even sex.

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Re: Would like some help with Scottish accent please
« Reply #22 on: Saturday 28 July 18 07:53 BST (UK) »
I would agree with Guy. As a Scot of many years, I have found that there are so many dialects in Scotland, one cannot claim that there is a "Scottish" accent. Some places within our border have a "twang" which I require an interpreter to understand, and that does not include Scottish Gaelic.

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Re: Would like some help with Scottish accent please
« Reply #23 on: Sunday 29 July 18 10:36 BST (UK) »
The consultant on his rounds asked the patient "Cumfy?" the answer was "Maryhill!"

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Re: Would like some help with Scottish accent please
« Reply #24 on: Sunday 29 July 18 21:05 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Skoosh on Sunday 29 July 18 10:36 BST (UK)
The consultant on his rounds asked the patient "Cumfy?" the answer was "Maryhill!"

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Re: Would like some help with Scottish accent please
« Reply #25 on: Monday 30 July 18 01:32 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Guy Etchells on Saturday 28 July 18 07:46 BST (UK)
As someone born in Scotland who lived his formative years in Scotland I would say

"What's a nice girl from Eastcheap doing in a draughty Scottish castle"

Accents depend on location, very often as in Scotland quite precise location, parentage, time period, class, education and even sex.

Guy,

The question asked was "Would like some help with Scottish accent please"

In Scotland a 'girl' (in a Scottish accent) would be 'lassie' just as in an English accent it would be 'gal' (I think)? regardless if we go by the original question without going round the houses with different counties etc. as 'lassie' seems the obvious to me.

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Re: Would like some help with Scottish accent please
« Reply #26 on: Monday 30 July 18 06:37 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Rosinish on Monday 30 July 18 01:32 BST (UK)
Quote from: Guy Etchells on Saturday 28 July 18 07:46 BST (UK)
As someone born in Scotland who lived his formative years in Scotland I would say

"What's a nice girl from Eastcheap doing in a draughty Scottish castle"

Accents depend on location, very often as in Scotland quite precise location, parentage, time period, class, education and even sex.

Guy,

The question asked was "Would like some help with Scottish accent please"

In Scotland a 'girl' (in a Scottish accent) would be 'lassie' just as in an English accent it would be 'gal' (I think)? regardless if we go by the original question without going round the houses with different counties etc. as 'lassie' seems the obvious to me.

Annie



If you say so, however where I grew up I only heard the term lassie used in Scottish songs and poems etc. but never in a real life situation.
The villagers and even the old farm hands just didn't refer to girls or women as lass, or lassies.
They would use the term girl but roll the r ( girrl )

I am not saying it did not happen elsewhere in Scotland but it didn't occur in the village where I grew up.
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