Re:Foreign Accent Syndrome
by smcl on Sunday December 01, 2019 @08:35AM
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Scot here - there's undoubtedly a Scots feel to the accent of Sharon Campbell-Rayment, but it's more like that of an originally non-native-English speaker who moved to Scotland and then lived there for >20 years. There's a couple of things I noticed in her first clip which might interest folks here:
1. the way she says "Scotteesh or Ireesh" in the first 2 seconds doesn't fit 100%. That way of pronouncing "-ish" as "-eesh" exists but for a more raw working class accent than what she has. So my dad is from Govan, a pretty working class area of Glasgow, and he'd say it like that. I grew up in Northeast Scotland and have an accent closer to hers and I wouldn't pronounce it this way.
2. The way she says "... we've since known that it is a ..." makes me think of a Northern Irish accent
3. Her "Inverness" has the emphasis backwards which is common in for Americans and Canadians when pronouncing Inver- and Aber- placenames. We would emphasise the second half - InverNESS, AberDEEN - whereas she's saying INVERness (or INverness). So she's picked up the general pronunciation, but some of the Canadian quirks are still present.
1. the way she says "Scotteesh or Ireesh" in the first 2 seconds doesn't fit 100%. That way of pronouncing "-ish" as "-eesh" exists but for a more raw working class accent than what she has. So my dad is from Govan, a pretty working class area of Glasgow, and he'd say it like that. I grew up in Northeast Scotland and have an accent closer to hers and I wouldn't pronounce it this way.
2. The way she says "... we've since known that it is a ..." makes me think of a Northern Irish accent
3. Her "Inverness" has the emphasis backwards which is common in for Americans and Canadians when pronouncing Inver- and Aber- placenames. We would emphasise the second half - InverNESS, AberDEEN - whereas she's saying INVERness (or INverness). So she's picked up the general pronunciation, but some of the Canadian quirks are still present.
In any case it's super interesting!