which Scottish accent is this?

[Jock Scot]

But of course... Hogwart's School of Witchcraft and Wizardy.

I have to confess that, Hogwarts, witchcraft and wizardry are way beyond my ken.

[unixken]

Hogwarts is the school in the Harry Potter books/films. It's a huge castle, in Scotland. ;)

[Jock Scot]

Hogwarts is the school in the Harry Potter books/films. It's a huge castle, in Scotland. ;)

Oh I know they were filming all this in Glencoe and on the Jacobite steam train that runs from Fort William to Mallaig and particularly on the Glenfinnan viaduct, but most of the detail passed me by, un-noticed I am afraid.

[The Q]

A close hit again Jock,
Robbie is from Lanarkshire, the son of a teacher and a doctor, attended an independent school after which he attended Glasgow school of art, where he had the nickname of Lord Fauntleroy due to his posh accent sounding like Prince Charles!

[Jock Scot]

Crikey! Perhaps its time to buy a lottery ticket?

[neloon]

You could try this lassie for a Glaswegian accent. (It's some sort of Facebook tag thing aimed at comparing US accents.) She is quite well-spoken by Glasgow standards because her mother is English, she spent the first two years of her life in England and she doesn't really use Glasgow slang.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGKoekcThLE
Alan

[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

[freddie]

Thanks gents!

Does "the man in the street" talk like that, or is it a "posh" version of the Edinburgh accent? I take it that Alasdair is well-educated.

If so, I wonder what the Glasgow version would sound like.

The best example I know of is 'Taggart' but I believe this is toned down a bit for the English audience !