What is it about Scottish accents, anyway?

In My Humble Opinion
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I was watching a show on the History Channel last night about the true story of Braveheart. They had some Scottish historians, and I was reminded once again how the burr of a Scottish accent makes my knees wobble. I want to run for the nearest phone book, flip to the R section, and have them start reading aloud. (The fact that one of the historians was wearing a kilt didn’t hurt, either ;))

Do Scottish accents make you melt? What is it about the cadence, the accent, the brogue, that makes us melt at a Scotsman’s feet, ready to do his will? Or is it just those of us with an Anglo-Saxon heritage? Do those of you with other backgrounds (Asian, perhaps) find Scottish accents just as toe-curling? Or do other brogues strike you as sexy?

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They make me melt and then some.

Rob Roy, hell yeah.

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ivylass, Mith so how arrrre yooou twoo dooin’?

Actually I’ve got one of those really guttural Central Belt accents that is incomprehensible to furriners. It’s been mistaken for German on a few occasions!

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Incidentally - why the “R” section?

Anyway - being Scottish myself, some Scottish accents are great, some not - just like other accents I suppose.

And then of course, Irish accents…:slight_smile:
and Welsh…:slight_smile:

I could export my brother to you if that would help?

:slight_smile:

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Yep. I like a nice soft Edinburgh lilt, but some of those rough council estate versions are as bad as anything else. I think, particularly to non-Britons, that the romance of the place and its history makes the accents seem more appealing.

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The sweetest accent to me is the one people who live in and around Inverness have. Very lilting and sing-songy (but not as up and down as Welsh, say), and very clear pronunciation. And few if any glottal stops.

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All the Irish lasses I know go gooey for Scottish accents.

An UL in Dublin says that unplanned pregnancies rise significantly every time Scotland are over here to play rugby.

I find an Edinburgh or Highlands accent very fetching on a lady, too.

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Cuz of all the rolling of the R’s…brrrrrread and butter, that type thing.
Ooooh…I’m getting all shivery!

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I suppose it is a bit cynical of me to see a slight pun in this "rolling of the "R"s?

:):):slight_smile:

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OH yea. Sexy Scottish accents. *melt, quiver, swoon

LOVE men who wear kilts. drool**

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A Scottish accent makes you think of guys in kilts.
Guys in kilts are, by definition, sexy.
Therefore, by association, Scottish accents are sexy. QED.

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Scottish females make me drool.

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Do a Google search for Gail Porter. It will make you happy.

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I have a definite weakness for women with Scottish and Irish accents…particularly a pleasant voice with a Highland accent…

And my wife has a friend who practically starts panting when I do my Sean Connery impression…especially if I happen to be wearing my kilt at the time…

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Or better still try searching for Kirsty Gallagher.

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Pretty much any strongly marked British regional accent is dead sexy, as far as I’m concerned; I don’t discriminate between English and Scottish. Unfortunately, they are all few and far between in North Carolina.

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Despite her other superb attributes, she doesn’t really have a Scottish accent, though, does she?

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Eh, that’s actually a pretty good point jjimm!

I’ll get me coat.

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There’s a world of difference between the Edinburgh refined ‘prime of Miss Jean Brodie’ voice, which is internatioanlly acceptable, and the mucher rougher Aberdonian voice, which even other Scots have suggested should be sub-titled.

But then most American voices sound the same over this side of the pond. Which annoys the hell out of Canadians.

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Yes, I find Scottish accents attractive. American ones too. Cunningly I choose to live hundreds/thousands of miles away from where I might hear either on a regular basis.