Teh One Who Knocks
11-20-2015, 12:27 PM
Rob Waugh for Metro.co.uk
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Do you ever feel like all the accents around you are blending into some weird London accent?
Well, they actually are – except in Scotland, where the distinctive accent is actually ‘flourishing’.
It’s partly due to us all watching TV, researchers think – but while many British accents are already blending together – many features of the Scottish accent have held firm.
Researchers from the University of Glasgow listened to clips of Scottish soldiers recorded during World War One and found that surprisingly little had changed.
Professor Jane Stuart-Smith of Glasgow University said, ‘We were quite surprised by what we found.
‘The assumption is that traditional dialects generally across the UK are being eroded and some are dying out altogether, but what we have learned particularly with the Glasgow accent is that Scots accents are actually flourishing.
‘Interestingly, what is not happening in Scotland is the dilution of accents to a more homogenised anglicised accent on the scale that we are seeing in England, and in fact the Scots accent remains very distinctive.’
http://i.imgur.com/3p3iztr.jpg
Do you ever feel like all the accents around you are blending into some weird London accent?
Well, they actually are – except in Scotland, where the distinctive accent is actually ‘flourishing’.
It’s partly due to us all watching TV, researchers think – but while many British accents are already blending together – many features of the Scottish accent have held firm.
Researchers from the University of Glasgow listened to clips of Scottish soldiers recorded during World War One and found that surprisingly little had changed.
Professor Jane Stuart-Smith of Glasgow University said, ‘We were quite surprised by what we found.
‘The assumption is that traditional dialects generally across the UK are being eroded and some are dying out altogether, but what we have learned particularly with the Glasgow accent is that Scots accents are actually flourishing.
‘Interestingly, what is not happening in Scotland is the dilution of accents to a more homogenised anglicised accent on the scale that we are seeing in England, and in fact the Scots accent remains very distinctive.’