: Nope, it's just a general ingrained pissoffedness at people (particularly
: tourists) mispronouncing Edinburgh; also Glasgow (the "-ow" is
: like "show" not "cow") and, the cardinal error,
: referring to anywhere in Scotland, or indeed Scotland itself, as being
: "in England".
: I live in Cheltenhamm just now, south-central England, and people do it to
: piss me off on purpose sometimes -- still, I weather it well, content with
: the knowledge that a large fraction of the population down here are very
: keen on a deep scottish accent :P
Technically speaking, if you were to pronounce English PERFECTLY, it would sound slightly Scottish. Just SLIGHTLY. I read some study about it once and they found a village in Scotland that had the "best" English accent. (By that accent, it'd be pronounced "Ey-dihn-boor[gh]", with the final "g" sound aspirated and deemphasized).
And also technically, old Scottish (the kind that says things like "ken" for "know") is not actually English but a closely related and mostly mutually intelligable language.
And also - WTF is up with French? They claim it's a Romance language, but it's like they took Latin, added a bunch of extra letters, made some syllables silent, and changed both the spelling and the pronunciation...
