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Thread #103911   Message #2122419
Posted By: Backwoodsman
09-Aug-07 - 08:54 AM
Thread Name: Accents and Dialect
Subject: RE: Accents and Dialect
My Glaswegian friend during my schooldays spoke with a 'BBC' English accent when she spoke to everybody except her parents. When she spoke to them it was in broad Glesga. She claimed (and I've no reason to doubt her) that she did it automatically, almost without realising it.