Originally Posted by Gordon D
Comments by Keith and Dean on the wots my grammar like thread got me thinking.

Coming from a rural background in Aberdeenshire I was constantly told in school " could you repeat that in English please" this was back when there was a directive to schools to stamp out the use of the Scots language or in my case the Doric dialect.

I believe it is now being taught as a subject in some if not all schools like Gaelic is in the west coast. Personally I think this is good, local culture should not be forgotten.

I'm sure this must have happened in many other areas of the country? Or was it just me oops

Any recollections?


I was pondering on this on the way back from Glasgow the other day. Called for petrol just north of the border and the counter girl had a nice Scottish lilt as you might expect but then it got me to thinking, do any border dwellers have Scottish accents on the English side and visa versa.

So for instance, do any Berwick residents sound like Rab C Nesbitt or perhaps do Gretna Greeners have a Dick Van Dyke accent?

Or maybe a strange mixture like those in the top corner of North Yorks who come under the gravitational pull of Tyneside and then every tea time have to sing “though shalt have fishy in a ......

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