which Scottish accent is this?

[OC Richard]

Facebook tag thing aimed at comparing US accents

Yes it's called "accent tag" and goes far beyond US accents, with a large number of participants in Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, though true that the word list and questions were obviously devised by some American.

I spent a couple hours one lazy morning listening to Accent Tag. It's amazing.

Here's some Scottish ones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ux8t0mFNJY

Sometimes there's obvious "contamination" such as the one where three college students living in the same dorm, from three different countries, and they've obviously been picking up speech habits from each other. Or people who, knowing that they're posting a video which will be seen across the globe, unconsciously modify their speech to be more generic. One Scottish girl stops herself saying "I don't talk like that!" and starts over with a much stronger Scottish accent.

Here's my home state. It's interesting that two sisters would have different pronunciations of so many words, yet I too use both, in nearly every case. I had reckoned that it was contamination from living in California for so long, but there it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQx_Ih-9dtI

This sounds "like home" to me. Note how she addresses the negative stereotypes associated with "Southern" accents (though West Virginia is, in fact, quite far north, and was a Union state in the Civil War). She also addresses how outsiders invariably mispronounce "Appalachian".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2I0d1DHZas

[neloon]

Richard,
Interesting that the only word mentioned that would be used in Scotland is "poke".
A linguistic colleague of my wife's is Michael Montgomery*, author of "From Ulster to America: The Scotch-Irish Heritage of American English" and when he 'phones, I instantly know who it is from just "Hi, Alan". It's as much to do with tone as with accent.
Alan
*http://artsandsciences.sc.edu/engl/d...ry/author.html

[neloon]

Just in case anyone wants to have a go at the rural Northeast of Scotland dialect (Doric), try this old sketch.
Ballater is the village nearest to Balmoral and the Royal family often do shop there - lots of "By Royal Appointments" - so the scenario is only slightly ridiculous but the audience enjoyment is very much down to how accurate the caricature of rural Aberdeenshire is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot__1K4c0Zw
Alan