Caithness accent

[Kevin Milkins]

Have you been down my neck of the woods lately

It's not the accent that troubles me in Norfolk, but the web feet.

[The Pepsi Challenge]

It's not the accent that troubles me in Norfolk, but the web feet.

Oh, the ironing.

[emc246]

Only sometimes, if I'm arguing with someone then all the Caithness slang and words come out LOL.
I definitely don't spell or type that way though, I can't stand when I talk to someone in a forum and they type using the Caithness slang.
But even worse than that is when a snob comes up here and tries to pass comment on my accent - they need to recognise what part of the world they are in and that I'm not going to put on a posh accent for nobody.

[The Pepsi Challenge]

Only sometimes, if I'm arguing with someone then all the Caithness slang and words come out LOL.
I definitely don't spell or type that way though, I can't stand when I talk to someone in a forum and they type using the Caithness slang.
But even worse than that is when a snob comes up here and tries to pass comment on my accent - they need to recognise what part of the world they are in and that I'm not going to put on a posh accent for nobody.

(You are) "An insult to Caithness, its dialect, culture and its identity" - John Cairns

I totally agree with you, though.

[madmissus]

You might not believe it but when I went to work in london first of all I had 2 guys arguing as to where I came from, one said belfast, one said glasgow, and up to then I had never been out of Thurso, what a laugh I had!!

[Amy-Winehouse]

You might not believe it but when I went to work in london first of all I had 2 guys arguing as to where I came from, one said belfast, one said glasgow, and up to then I had never been out of Thurso, what a laugh I had!!

#I would believe it, we used to get it every time we went to Ibrox- which part of Ulster were we from? Everytime

[Kevin Milkins]

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!

Have you ever been to Rome?

[stroma88]

i think our accent is quite nice. i live down in edinburgh just now and most people like the way i speak cause its softer than a lot of edinburgh accents.
although they do laugh at me a lot. the a is pronounced quite differently down there so they make fun when i say words like card or carrots. they think it sounds like im saying cord and corrots and often have to ask me what im on about!
i spent ages one day asking where carrie was and all i got back was 'who the hell is corrie?!'

[morvenview]

If ur fay edinburgh e spek edinburgh if ur fay glesgow e spek glesgow if ur fay caithness an e dina spek caithness then e must b an in comer!!!!
Hids no at difficult e surely spek way e accent e wiz born way! Am choost a bak e dicker mind e!

[upolian]

guaranteed!!

[highlander]

Im proud to be caithnessian, i talk the talk and i am not ashamed to speak the lingo, as they say thurso has become so cosmopolitan, folk in the future wont know how a caithnessian really sounded like. I remember going to the doctors and said "my bowg has been really sore" Dr Burnie, looked at me as if i had grown two heads, and said in a loud voice PARDON? so i repeated it, my BOWG is sore, then remembered he was not from caithness, we both could not talk for a few minutes for laughing lol

[Margaret M.]

I've lived in the U.S. much longer than I lived in Caithness. When I first left Caithness, I had to make an effort to pronounce words properly -- either that or repeat everything I said several times before being understood. Now when I come home, some think I have an American accent with some Caithness words, hoose, oot, etc. Yet when I meet people here for the first time, they usually ask me if I'm from Scotland or Ireland.