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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
She's married to an American, that's what mixed-accent marriages end up doing. My (Scottish) and my wife's (Lancashire) accents have combined in both of us to create some sort of hybrid accent that has, bizarrely, resulted in people asking both of us separately if we're Irish. I've also had "where in Canada are you from"... FROM A CANADIAN PERSON. 
My theory is that it's the "celticness" of Scottish combined with the long vowels of Lancs. |
Oh, I knew she married that guy off the Office but the merged accent just sounds really false and off-putting.
