Do I sound like that?

[EyelineronThursdays]

Has anyone seen the Twitter video about 'Glasgow you're a fighter... yer da delivering bread'.

Now the photography is beautiful, the words are lovely... but that's not a real accent, is it?!

I'm with you OP. My family is a mix of working and middle classes and even "posh"

Not natural

That's more to do with the poem than the reader though I would think?

I agree. The accent is normal - I'm married to someone who has that accent and who is a true Glaswegian - but the cadence is not, constrained & influenced by the rhythm of the poem itself.

So are we agreed that the poem is not only sentimental shite, it's actual shite as doesn't sound natural in the voice it is trying to portray?

Is that not most of poetry

Yes Wax. Shite

Glad we have an agreement folks

To me it is like the current fashionable BBC/media voice

Glottal stops are there but sometimes speaker remembers at the last minute and the overcomps with the final T

Irritatingly it appears also to involve the use of the phrase “have ran” now in common usage and defended now as “our accent” - over my dead body!

I think it is dad but she is glottal stopping or otherwise not properly pronouncing the second d in dad which makes it sound like da

Lots of r endings shoved in there too, to muddy the waters as to social class ie are you a t pronouncer or not... N Sturgeon and a lot of radio presenters do this, and it always sounds to me like a deliberate or perhaps subconscious attempt to use a transatlantic sounding compromise.

I think it's someone who has partly tried to put it on, and partly who has been asked to record, and re-record and "can you just do that wee bit again" loads of times and has ended up speaking in the most unnatural way possible.