I refresh this thread with some hesitation ~~ it had gone on & on for some while ~~ because the unhappy death of Gerry Rafferty, & consequent U-Tube links on his obit thread to his Baker Street, have brought it all back to mind. Not speaking ill of the dead if I say that that was a perfect example of the phenomenon which made me OP this thread in the first place last Autumn ~~ a Scotsman (born Paisley) singing about a street in the West End of London in an accent which would have been much more appropriate to a street running somewhere between Broadway & Central Park in the W80s.

Again ~~ why oh why? And did nobody but me think it strange?

~M~