Almost Right. The Sontaran two-parter was written by Helen Raynor, a Welsh woman.

Ah knew it had to be someone Welsh!

There is no way you can identify a "Paisley" accent as we range from posh Paisley (David Tennant) to Rab C Nesbitts cousins!!

At 5:48 on iplayer when Churchill is telling them about Bracewall, Amy is reading some documents about the Ironsides and first comments that he is Scottish. She obviously read here that he was from Paisley.

BTW my mum says there def was a wee post office near the Abbey, (not sure if still there, recent government cut backs!) so very possibly Ash trees in the early 20th century.

I've only lived in the Newcastle area for 5 years but can easily tell the difference between "geordie", "mackem" and "smoggie". You don't have to live there all your life to recognise accents.

Rose Tyler: "If you're an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?"

The Doctor: "How could you possibly identify a northern accent if you haven't been there yourself?"

The only one I can think of is on Silk Street not too far from the Abbey. It's still there and also houses a subway takeaway.

There's lots of different Scottish accents.

Lots of planets have a Scotland

I grew up 14 miles from Paisley and moved to England in 1988 when my daughter was 8 she lost her accent completely whereas her brother 4 years older at the time has a strong Scottish accent like mine.

I never gave it a thought when Amy called him Paisley I just thought she picked a place name for him as a Scot.

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I recently went to Blackpool and one of my cousins mates is from Scotland. They moved there a few years ago. She has a kid who was born in Blackpool but his accent is a proper strong Scottish one. I guess it all depends on who's around you.

A friend of mine originally came here from the States over a decade ago and still speaks with an American accent!

It's more difficult to lose your accent when you are an adult, has something to do with your early perceptual abilities (different sounds in different languages). Kids are lucky, if they start early enough they can take on any accent and learn any language to perfection.

Correct me if I'm wrong, I should watch it again to check, but didn't Amy use the word "Scotch" to describe Bracewell?
I was surprised to hear that, as although I'm English, I always thought that the one term you don't use to describe someone from Scotland is "Scotch"!
"Scotch" is a drink, people from Scotland are "Scots" or "Scottish".
Amy may actually have said "Scottish", but it sounded like "Scotch" to me at the time!

Yep, people from Swansea are Jacks.

If you think there is only one all encompassing Scottish accent then half a brain is too generous,its like me saying all English accents sound the same (from Edinburgh) when they patently dont.

That's a bit harsh IMO. Some people are not very good at spotting different accents, whether they are English, Welsh or Scottish accents. For instance, I assume that people from the north of England would not be very good at distinguishing all the different Hampshire accents, and vice versa. Some people might not have considered that there are different Scottish accents, it doesn't mean that they are intellectually challenged.

Didnt the Dr make some sort of comment at the end of TEH about her retaining her accent because she wanted to be different...

Yep!

The Doctor: Scottish girl in an English village, and you've still got that accent? Yeah, you're coming!