LL-L: "Language varieties" LOWLANDS-L, 10.MAR.2000 (05) [E]

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From: Colin Wilson [lcwilson at iee.org]
Subject: LL-L: "Language varieties" LOWLANDS-L, 10.MAR.2000 (03) [E]

At 08:00 10/03/00 -0800, Ian James Parsley wrote:
>speech
>directly on
>either side of the Irish Sea is not particularly distinct (so, for
>example,
>if I'm trying to find an NI radio station I might think I've found one
>from
>the accent of the newsreader, only to find it's a SW Scottish station).

Ian James Parsley might be interested to know that, during the ten
years or so that I lived in London, England, there were numerous
occasions when I was mistaken for someone from Ireland by people whom
I'd just met. On two of those occasions the person concerned was
actually Irish, and thought that I was from Northern Ireland.

As he and other readers may know, I'm not even from SW Scotland, but
from the opposite corner, the north-east! As regards the English
people who thought I was from Ireland, I've always assumed that
because their radio and TV feature only a very limited range of
Scottish accents (and mine isn't one of them) they simply didn't
know what to make of me. I'd never understood how Irish people
could think I was from the same island, but perhaps it makes more
sense now.

By the way, the only radio station based in south-west Scotland is,
to my knowledge, West Sound in Ayr. Do they give prominence to
local accents? I ask because North Sound (they have such original
names, don't they), in Aberdeen in the north-east, doesn't.

Guidwull tae aw,

Colin Wilson.

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