Caithness accent

**coppertop 1958** · 05-Oct-09, 11:34

Caithness accent

do you talk in a Caithness accent

http://www.caithness.org/dialect/index.htm

just to let you know this is a open poll any one can see whats your poll results are

**Sandra_B** · 05-Oct-09, 11:36

No, I don't.

**Invisible** · 05-Oct-09, 11:42

I use proper dialect sometimes but thats only when the person im speaking to is from Caithness. Down in Glasgow, I asked someone what the crack and he said "sorry not my thing"

although i do say whiest an awful lot

**horseman** · 05-Oct-09, 11:54

choust' a little bittie'

**Gizmo** · 05-Oct-09, 12:23

I do, but i try not to, it's a terrible accent, and everytime i hear a Caithnesian on the Tv, i cringe with embarrasment, we just sound like a bunch of inbred yokels.

**Jeid** · 05-Oct-09, 12:25

Originally Posted by Gizmo

we just sound like a bunch of inbred yokels.

No point in shying away from what we are

**trinkie** · 05-Oct-09, 12:25

Losh yes ! I choost luv id.
Fit else wad ye do fan yur fae e' pleice?

Trinkie

**tisme** · 05-Oct-09, 12:53

Depends on the situation! Have been away for almost 30 years now

If I'm speaking on the phone and it business, then no.
If I'm speaking to friends and family then yes.
If I'm blootered, definately...

**Bruce_H** · 05-Oct-09, 13:43

As a Yank who visits Caithness from time to time, let me just say that I love hearing the accent. It is, by some measure, a beautiful set of inflections upon english and it makes me smile to hear it spoken.

Bruce H

**~~Tides~~** · 05-Oct-09, 16:31

Only when gettin e crack way some mad culls.

**The Pepsi Challenge** · 05-Oct-09, 17:09

Careful what you say lassagies and biygees. Anything so much as remotely picking on the Caithness accent will only serve to get John Cairns from Caithness Arts denouncing you all as an insult to the county, its culture and its heritage in the local rag. Boo! Hiss!

**Bazeye** · 05-Oct-09, 17:52

Anyone speak Gaelic with a Caithness twang?

**honey** · 05-Oct-09, 18:55

Having worked in call centres for years, then moving to Glasgow, my accent has calmed down a lot.. though i sstill get the mickey taken out of me all the time at work for the way say certain words.. like Friday.

saying that, if ive been on the drams, my accent seems to get stronger again!

**redeyedtreefrog** · 05-Oct-09, 18:58

Just a it, but I'm trying to get rid of it. I try to say Fri-day instead of fruy-day, etc..

**coppertop 1958** · 05-Oct-09, 19:13

Originally Posted by Bazeye

Anyone speak Gaelic with a Caithness twang?

LIKE IT ....... i not came over any in my time but be good to hear eh ......

**George Brims** · 05-Oct-09, 19:40

I've had to drop the accent due to moving about a bit. First week in Edinburgh at University I was in accommodation with a bunch of guys from Fife and Dundee. It took about that first week for any of us to understand each other.

When I lived in Hawaii in the 1980s, it was interesting to see how the kids would speak the local "pidgin", a blend of English with Hawaiian, Portuguese, Chinese and Japanese words when out playing, but switch to "proper" English when talking to the teacher. Just like Caithness!

Now I live in California I have little trace of Caithness left, though my wife will notice it creep back in when talking to someone back home on the phone (same with her Inverness accent).

A couple of years ago I heard a bloke called Garry Anderson, an engineer in F1, talking on the radio to a driver. He's an Ulsterman, and he sounds exactly like me!

**joxville** · 05-Oct-09, 20:45

Um speak with forked tongue.

**changilass** · 05-Oct-09, 20:52

It all depends on who I am talking to and how many Voddies and Tigers I have had.

Hubby does say that I am the only person he knows who can change accents with every single word in a sentence.

**ShelleyCowie** · 05-Oct-09, 21:12

My accent changes quite often, i catch on to accents fast.

My auntie lived in orkney and at Army Cadet Camp Caithness and Orkney stuck together alot so i can catch on to that accent fast, when im in Skye well.....i catch on to that too. Then when my OH's parents are up visiting from Inverness i get that accent too! Im terrible.

And its a completely different language never mind accent when im drunk!