# What is it about Scottish accents, anyway? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 13, 2003, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-about-scottish-accents-anyway/148285 "2003-01-13T13:41:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Kilt-wearin\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@Kilt-wearin\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilt-wearin_man)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-about-scottish-accents-anyway/148285/41 "2003-01-15T04:02:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mauvaise \* > \*\*:: wistful sigh :: > > I’ll get to the Highlands one day. This I vow! \*\* Yes - go to the Highlands. Glencoe is the loveliest place on earth, I swear! I’ve never been anywhere so beautiful - the only places that come close are the rest of the Highlands and Aberdeenshire. Give yourself at least two weeks. Try to see as much as you can. ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-about-scottish-accents-anyway/148285/42 "2003-01-15T04:15:51Z")
Yep Scottish accents are all good …thats why I married one. But my next choice is a Scouse accent mmmmmmmmmmmmm Some people think I’m odd for this! ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-about-scottish-accents-anyway/148285/43 "2003-01-15T04:59:00Z")
Someone can help me out here…Shirley Manson is Scottish, right? I really do NOT like her accent. Is there anyone else (female) who I may have heard that is a good representative? If she has a pretty standard one, I must say I don’t think I like it…it just sounds…rough. Not a good word, but I’m not sure I know exactly why it rubs me wrong. It’s just doesn’t sound feminine, IMO. Although, conversely, I can see why a Scottish accent would sound good on a man (if men are your thing.) ::climbs into asbestos underwear:: ---
**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-about-scottish-accents-anyway/148285/44 "2003-01-15T14:16:39Z")
So is Irvine Welsh hardcore erotica for all you people? How do you feel about Groundskeeper Willy\*? \*I know it’s not a proper Scottish accent. But some men quite enjoy silicon breasts. ---
**Author:** ![cowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-about-scottish-accents-anyway/148285/45 "2003-01-15T15:24:07Z")
Scouse … count me in ! and although I generally prefer men, a woman from Northern Ireland can melt my heart … hell, I guess any accent on a sexy person is pretty sexy. ---
**Author:** ![ShetlandPony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4bbf92/32.png) [@ShetlandPony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShetlandPony)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-about-scottish-accents-anyway/148285/46 "2003-01-15T16:27:13Z")
Dear Ivylass, I have a potential solution to your problem. Check out this website. It’s a demo page from a Scottish Speech synthesis company in Edinburgh and they do a very nice Scottish accent which you can get to say anything!! [http://www.rhetoricalsystems.com/cgi-bin/demo.cgi](http://www.rhetoricalsystems.com/cgi-bin/demo.cgi) ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-about-scottish-accents-anyway/148285/47 "2003-01-15T17:49:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ShetlandPony \* > \*\*Dear Ivylass, > > I have a potential solution to your problem. Check out this website. It’s a demo page from a Scottish Speech synthesis company in Edinburgh and they do a very nice Scottish accent which you can get to say anything!! > > [http://www.rhetoricalsystems.com/cgi-bin/demo.cgi](http://www.rhetoricalsystems.com/cgi-bin/demo.cgi) \*\* Oh my god…I think Ivylad has some competition… ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-about-scottish-accents-anyway/148285/48 "2003-01-15T22:50:03Z")
I once worked with a lady from the Isle of Man. Her accent was… unforgettable. It was a sad day at work when she moved back to Man. ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-about-scottish-accents-anyway/148285/49 "2003-01-16T04:21:26Z")
Oh, my God, no. Not sexy!! (Or should I say… _dead sexy_?) Scottish accents crack me up bigtime. I can’t help it. I thought they were totally funny long before Fat Bastard. My old boyfriend and I had this whole goofy music hall act thingie we used to do for each other on long car trips, all in exaggerated Scottish accents. Hilarious travelin’ fun!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-about-scottish-accents-anyway/148285/50 "2003-01-16T05:52:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by flodnak \* > \*\*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. \*\* Head out to St. Andrews, NB sometime. There’s a resort there, and all the guys on staff wear kilts every day. ---
**Author:** ![d\_redguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5fc32e/32.png) [@d\_redguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/d_redguy)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-about-scottish-accents-anyway/148285/51 "2003-01-16T06:22:57Z")
OK, guys! Now you know what makes them melt:[This is where to learn how.](http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/irishaccent/irishaccent.html) (Well, alright. It’s Irish. But that works well too.) **d\_redgal** also \ enjoys a Scottish accent from me from time to time as well.😃 ---
**Author:** ![BadBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71c47a/32.png) [@BadBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BadBaby)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-about-scottish-accents-anyway/148285/52 "2003-01-16T06:28:30Z")
At my college we were the Highlanders, something about the surrounding landscape reminding folks of Scotland. Consequently, everything was Scottish-influenced, so it was four years of heaven, surrounded by men in kilts, and Scottish accents; in other words everything good and right about this world of ours. After graduation I was left high and dry until one of my cousins started playing the bagpipes and I got to go to his performances. I highly reccommend looking for your local Highland society (or equivalent) to admirers, everybody’s a dear and you can listen to as many lovely ruffly rrrrr’s as you like. For Billy Connelly fans, check out Mrs. Brown, a good movie and a man in a kilt in just about every scene. ---
**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-about-scottish-accents-anyway/148285/53 "2003-01-19T02:22:12Z")
[mindless chanting] BIL-LY BOYD! BIL-LY BOYD! BIL-LY BOYD! BIL-LY BOYD![/mindless chanting] ~Ferry ---
**Author:** ![Granuaile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecccb3/32.png) [@Granuaile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Granuaile)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-about-scottish-accents-anyway/148285/54 "2003-01-19T08:40:58Z")
ooooooh my yes, I do love a Scottish accent. A Scottish accent in a kilt is even better. A close second would be a “Hugh Grant” public school accent…shiver. ::small hijack:: Dopers w/SO’s with sexy accents… Do you still hear their accent? When I first met my husband, his lovely, soft Wexford accent could turn me to jelly. His accent is now inaudible to me except for certain words or phrases. Damn. I can still hear his siblings’ accents but not his. Does anybody have a theory for this? ::end hijack:: ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-about-scottish-accents-anyway/148285/55 "2003-01-19T16:48:03Z")
Hell, as an American, I turn into a quivering pile of estrogen at any or all of the following: Irish, English (excepting Cockney), Scottish, Aussie, Italian, Slavic, occationally Spanish, and even the occational Southern American. (Georgia, not Alabama). I also find the Boston accent endearing. That’s a lot of accents to turn into estrogen for. And I’m sure there are some I’m forgetting. Oy. ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-about-scottish-accents-anyway/148285/56 "2003-01-19T17:23:07Z")
My father taught school in Scotland for a while and he said that Edinborough accents were pleasant and pretty, while Glaswegian (sp?) is harsh sounding and rough. He demonstrated by saying “Gie us a kiss” in both accents. I think the only accent that wouldn’t particularly turn me on would be the accent that people have in the area where I live. If there’s nothing exotic about it, there’s nothing to be turned on by. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-about-scottish-accents-anyway/148285.md?page=2)