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Post by Bara on Aug 15, 2013 10:41:36 GMT -5
Oh, Lisa, you're in BEEG trouble with Brooks! I wouldn't be surprised if she doesn't withdraw Dragon privileges.
Difficult to 'diagnose' an accent on the screen, Tee! If she pronounces it 'duggie' - she's a Scot. Hmmm. There's only one sure way I know to pinpoint an accent - Ask Them Where They're From!!
(I thought Skye Terriers were about the same size as Scotties or Westies; but Lisa is our dog-lady.)
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Post by Big Tee© on Aug 15, 2013 10:50:52 GMT -5
Oh, she's a Scot, no doubt about that, just wondering if it is highland or lowland. I'm thinking highland as there is a lilt to it.
Skyes are larger by weight than a Scotty and larger than a Westie in general.
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Post by Bara on Aug 15, 2013 11:15:10 GMT -5
Ah, if there's a lilt, then definitely from the Highlands. It's the Celtic influence. We don't have that in the Lowlands. Nor up here in the Northern Isles. The Welsh, The Irish and the Highland Scots all have a history of Gaelic as a 'first' language. I don't know why. They're separated by hundreds of miles, but they're all Celts and they all have a version of Gaelic. As far as I know, only the Welsh still have a living language. They actually have a 'Welsh language' channel on TV. A soap in Welsh. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVYOf0zm1BgPlease do ask her? |
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Post by Deb on Aug 15, 2013 11:55:57 GMT -5
So is it really Scarlett O'Hara I sound like with her accent? To my ear I never knew it. Back many years ago, in the late '60s I spent 6 months living near Boston,Massachuetts and I worked at a huge discount department store. One of my co-worker friends was from Texas. She and I were told by other co-workers who were native Massachuettsians that I sounded like a person right off a southern farm and my friend sounded like a true Texan rancher's daughter.
Before I went to work at the department store I worked a short time at a restaurant and one day a table of customers asked me if I was a Confederate or a Union Yankee. They were referring to the American Civil War Era. I reckon my accent was evident to them. I replied to their question with, "I am only 20 not 120".
Then, when Bara and I met up in 2004 at Kentucky we were eating at an Appleby's for dinner and drinks that first night. At a table next to our's were as I recall 4 guys of which 2 were twin brothers, Ronald and Donald was their names, when they heard Bara speak they became infatuated with her. What a fun time that truly was and I have such good memories of that time.
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Post by Bara on Aug 15, 2013 12:16:15 GMT -5
LOL! Of course you're a Southern Belle!
I'd forgotten those two. They thought I was Australian. How insulting! Bruce, it was, who gave us a lift home. And no, not YOUR Bruce, Ann!
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Post by Lisa on Aug 15, 2013 12:35:47 GMT -5
I am only a dog lady if it is a Schnauzer!! (said with a thick German accent)
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