I'm not talking about general regions but more specifically a smaller area. For example I grew up just outside of Glasgow but other Scottish people can't place my accent, it's vaguely west of Scotland and has been described as 'posh'. I put this down to growing up in a mixed accent household (my father had a soft Donegal accent), and spending many years away from here which I believe does change your accent, perhaps slightly anglicised and deliberatley changed to make myself more understandable to Europeans.
Having said that I can just about place other Scottish people to a particular town or city and dare I say it social class. In Donegal where I visit as I have family there the accent can change in the distance of a mile or two and within a twenty mile radius there there may be twenty different accents.
I can also most of the time tell who has been in the military (any branch), since there seems to be an almost generic accent peculiar to them.
Having said that I can just about place other Scottish people to a particular town or city and dare I say it social class. In Donegal where I visit as I have family there the accent can change in the distance of a mile or two and within a twenty mile radius there there may be twenty different accents.
I can also most of the time tell who has been in the military (any branch), since there seems to be an almost generic accent peculiar to them.
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