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Thread #143452   Message #3311832
Posted By: Little Hawk
22-Feb-12 - 12:04 PM
Thread Name: BS: Dawkins attacked for ancestors' faults
Subject: RE: BS: Dawkins attacked for ancestors' faults
Hardly, Richard! Hardly! I can easily detect numerous different accents from the UK, all of them quite interesting, and I am most certainly not confusing Scotland with Wales. My mother's people originally came from Scotland, clan MacGregor, and I am steeped in Scottish ballads, a la Ewan MacColl (who wasn't in fact a Scot himself, but he did sing their songs).

Regarding Wales, it's probably the area of the UK that I am least familiar with in terms of both the culture and the accent(s). I did thoroughly enjoy the impromptu Welsh chorus in the movie "Zulu", though...(the soldiers in the movie sang a heroic song prior to the final Zulu attack at Rorke's Drift).

Oh...you meant the bit about the sheep? ;-D Well, I can't say for sure regarding that. I've just heard rumours.