To find her accent annoying?

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Friend comes from Scotland. Doesn’t sound in the slightest bit Scottish, says when she goes home her accent comes out in full force. Talks non stop about Scotland and put out little snippets of her Scottish accent.

Then today found out she’s lived in England since she was 4 months old.

Did she spell the tattoo as you did, BasilFaulty?

I was born in England but my parents grew up in Australia. I've never lived in Australia but still have a twang of Australian at times and I pronounce certain words in the Aussie way.

My parents' accents are the ones I heard the most as a child so I naturally picked up their way of speaking. Isn't that normal?

*Why any one would want to be Scottish and live in Scotland I don't know.

It's fucking baltic & there's glasweigans everywhere*

Hey you, you're CLAIMED!

When I lived in Scotland, I knew English people like this who grew up in Scotland with English parents and sounded mostly Scottish day-to-day but slid into English tones the minute they were around their parents or around English people. And, yes, it was annoying.

My Mum has Scottish parents and was raised in Wiltshire.
She's in her mid 60s and still has a very twang in her voice speaking to Scots and comes out with a few very Scottish sayings.
Couple that with the Wiltshire 'ooo arrrahh' and the outer London slang she's picked up from us kids and it's quite amusing.
She has absolutely no idea she does it.
Meh. Let her be.

Do her parents have a Scottish accent? Or her grandparents/cousins etc?

I speak Italian with a bit of an accent. But my grandmother (and other relatives) speak Italian with a very strong regional accent.

So I end up speaking their Italian dialect with my 'foreign' accent. It's apparently a bit weird (according to an Italian friend...)

Maybe it's something like that for your friend?

Last year she got a 'Scotish and Proud' tattoo.

Please tell me this is actually what it said?

My kids were born to n Ireland and have always lived there, but they have my English accent!

Sometimes I turn slightly Australian if I'm really, really pissed which is odd. Had she been drinking?

Oh ffs

I have a Jamaican accent when I am in Jamaica and I have never lived there! It's so weird it even surprises me. I was there a LOT from when I was born-15YO usually 3-4 months a year so I went to school and just spoke like them. When I go back to visit it just comes back and as soon as I am on the plane home back to Mancunian. DC find it hilarious and constantly beg me to do it at home.

I am very empathic and use this in my work - I think it comes from that, instinctive mirroring. Your mate prob can't help it.

Are her initials FM?

I moved from Poland when i was 5, I guees i picked up an English accent at school whilst i was learning English. When I'm speaking Polish I'd say i still sound Polish since I always spoke it at home growing up.

Sometimes I turn slightly Australian if I'm really, really pissed which is odd

I apparently sound extremely "foreign" (I suspect it's a mix of the languages we spoke when I was little) when I'm drunk and trying to speak English.

My DH says he's lucky I don't drink too much ;) (understanding me is apparently a bit of a challenge... Well, according to him.)

My ds spent his first 6 years in N.Ireland and spoke with a English accent

I dont see anything wrong with being proud of your heritage, from whatever country that may be?
Im one of those annoying accent changers. I really really cannot help it & it annoys myself sometimes. But if someones going to badly judge me for it & make incorrect assumptions about me then they can GTF im self conscious about my voice as it is. I think there are bigger things in life to get aggrieved over. Like people who stop in doorways / dont stand to the right on escalators! 😂

My parents' accents are the ones I heard the most as a child so I naturally picked up their way of speaking. Isn't that normal?

To an extent, yes. Up to school age, children sound like their parents, but once at school, typically a child picks up the accent of his/her peers and culture. Otherwise an English child with two foreign parents would not speak English with a Brummie/Cockney/Scouse accent.

OH was born in one country and raised in another and has accent of parents from country of origin but Never grew up there his brother lives in that country but has strong accent from the other country. Totally weird, but totally genuine. And they do slide between accents depending on context of who and what they are talking about.

I know someone who is similarly "Welsh". She never lived in Wales, but both her parents are Welsh. She speaks with a home counties accent but uses words like "cwtch". She has to tell you that she is Welsh as soon as she meets you ("I'm Cerys* - it's a Welsh name. I'm Welsh!") and it seems impossible to have a conversation without her telling you how much better Wales is than England.

I know several actually Welsh people, also living in England, and none of them talk so constantly about it!

*name change, but similar obviously Welsh name

Actually i just lurve pleasent female scottish accents, theres one who chases us up for payment sometimes and i'd never pay them a penny again just to hear her sweet tones:-)

Glad it's not just me then MeyYael I suppose we stop trying to monitor how we speak so much after a lot of
a few bevvies.

Well my kids have never lived in Scotland (so far) and their accents are very mixed. I’m Scottish and their dad is English so her accent may depend on what accent her parents have

If you like her, you should see this as a funny, even endearing, little quirk of hers, not as something annoying. Who cares whether it’s natural or an unimportant little pretence? Everyone is presenting their chosen image of themselves, especially when you’re young. Be kind to your friends.

Laurie Brett from Eastenders is Scottish but uses an English accent when she's in England.