• Mr_Blott@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Anyone who includes Fife and Dundee as having a stuck up and pretentious accent is either deaf or geographically challenged

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      9 months ago

      Yeah, my sister-in-law’s family are from Dundee. I can definitely confirm that.

      They clearly meant to get Edinburgh (although that also implies they’ve never been to Edinburgh) but went too wide.

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        9 months ago

        My mum was born in Dundee. When she went to work on the switchboard at the gas company as a teenager, the very first thing they did was send her to an elocution class to get rid of the Dundee accent 😂

        To her dying day, she still answered the phone like Hyacinth Bucket