Do People In Orkney Talk Like Cameron ???

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zazza

09-07-2003

Here's a good link for those trying to get a handle on Cameron's dialect/accent...

http://www.orkneyjar.com/orkney/dialect/index.html

lorry

09-07-2003

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“Originally posted by zazza
Kye - meaning "cattle" ”

Zazza, your post was very interesting. But surely "kye" means cow in Irish?

Only joking.....

I like Cameron's sing-song accent (mind you it sounds very funny when he's bitching).

lulu

09-07-2003

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“Originally posted by Khayman
Agreed. A friend married a woman from the Shetlands, and sometimes I had great difficulty understanding a word she said. Cameron's accent is quite soft compared to the broader ones that exist up here. I like it, certainly much nicer than the Glaswegian I speak. ”

I too like Cameron's accent, as you say it is quite soft. I am originally from 40 miles SW of you and now live in the NE and when my neighbour starts in the 'Doric' I don't have a clue what she is on about

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lu

Schnauzer Bites

09-07-2003

Some people in Orkney talk like Cameron, he certainly has what I think of as a typical Orkney accent. To my ears a much more pleasant accent than the further north Shetland one.

Like any place they have people in Orkney with a mixture of accents as a number of people choose to move there to live for a variety of reasons, taking their own accents with them and slowly acquiring parts of the local accent and word useage.

deor

09-07-2003

Yes, Cameron's accent is a soft version of Orcadian: if you look at a map of the island group, you'll see an island called North Ronaldsay at the very top: now - that is a *very* strong accent....you'd find a lot of Orcadian on Mainland (the larger blob of land) would have trouble with an accent from there!
I find the lilt lends itself wellto drama and rhetoric - hence why Cameron sounds so 'passionate' (vocally) at times.

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