'And then it was really funny', I said, 'I mean, him saying that! He's Scottish for God's sake!'
'Um no', replied the PA at work, 'He's Irish.'
'No he's not', I responded, so confident in my statement, 'I have heard him speak a million times, he is soooooo Scottish.'
'He really isn't', the PA was equally sure, 'In fact, here is his passport from the Dubai trip. See, Irish.'
'Irish?', I blinked in disbelief, 'But he has a Scottish accent!'
'No, he has an Irish accent', the PA was talking slowly now, 'What was your degree in again?'
My voice whispered:
'Linguistics'.
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Oh dear!
I'm from Ulster, have broad accent and have never been mistaken for an Irish women or a Scottish woman. Woohoo!
Hooray for hard vowels and rolling all my words together :-)
Btw, I agree some Irish people do sound Scottish.... but I don't have a linguistics degree!
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