Bostondevil wrote:So, colchar, what kind of accent do you have. I met a man with a lovely Scottish accent today.
Generally, I have a Canadian accent but there is a Scottish accent that runs through it as I was living in Scotland when I learned to speak as a child. And the Canadian accent is stronger here because A) I am surrounded by Canadians and B) because I am conscious of the fact that there are certain words and phrases that I could never use here because nobody, other than fellow Scots, would understand them. Because of that the Scottish part of my accent is downplayed a bit.
But when I am in Britain my Scottish accent comes to the fore and my Canadian accent recedes into the background, to the point of barely being noticeable. My Scottish accent is strong when I am in England and is
really strong when I am in Scotland. In fact, cousins of mine and friends of the family remarked to me last summer that I sounded as if I had never left - and my accent wasn't that bad last year because a friend from Canada was staying with me for the majority of my trip and I was speaking to him every day. The constant conversations with another Canadian muted my Scottish accent somewhat but it was still easily distinguishable. Had he not been there though, there would have been virtually no trace of my Canadian accent. On other trips I have had people, in both England and Scotland, ask how I could be Canadian when I don't have any trace of a Canadian accent and have a purely Scottish one.
So, to summarize, my accent depends on where I am.
". . . when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."
— Samuel Johnson
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