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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
It has to be utter BS though, my wife is English and has lived here for 7 years, and has never been mocked for her accent... other than by me, playfully, of course  .
Also I work in a busy bookmakers in a pretty rough town and have never even HEARD anyone take the piss out of people with Engliah accents and we have plenty of English regulars. Plus one of my co-workers is English... and has lived here for 40 years (managing somehow to not lose her accent at all) and people don't even mock HER accent. Which is really incredible as everyone mocks her for pretty much everything else  .
There's some gentle ribbing if England are playing in any major tournaments and that's pretty much the extent of it  .
Basically I think the main reason it has to be BS is that it would rely on hearing English accents being "unusual" in Scotland. But... LOADS of English people live here... plus there's a lot of tourism... so hearing all sorts of accents isn't unusual at all  .
Actually...
Wait...
Maybe she went to Ayrshire. If it was Ayrshire... tbh yeah it might be true. Hahaha. |
We've been to Scotland every year for years on holiday, the worst place we experienced it was in Ullapool ( North Highlands ) and the lady we hired the cottage from said it had taken the locals years and years to accept an English family buying a cottage up there ,she said things got slightly better after 8-9 yrs but still some locals ignored her ,she had had letters posted through her door telling them to leave
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