| Comment | Yeah as others have said I think we'd normally call it someone doing their "telephone voice". Purposely affecting a cleaner accent to be understood.
I'd really recommend watching this video by LangFocus on Scots and Scottish English.
https://youtu.be/8X5zX3yVoiQ
He explains it pretty well. In Scotland we speak on a bit of a spectrum, ranging from Scots at one end and Scottish English at the other. Next to no one at all speaks in total Scots (it's mostly dead as a full language), but most people sit somewhere in the middle of the spectrum and are capable of sliding a little up or down depending on the situation and company they're in. |
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