| Comment | Yeah we'd tend to call it doing your "telephone voice". Affecting a clearer accent (and changing your word choice) to be understood.
LangFocus has a great video on Scots and Scottish English that's worth worth watching.
https://youtu.be/8X5zX3yVoiQ
He explains it pretty well. Most people in Scotland sit on a sort of language spectrum, with Scots at one end and Scottish English at the other end (our variant of Modern English, like you get Canadian/Australian/American English).
While almost no one speaks in full blown Scots anymore (it's a mostly dead language, spoken in bits and pieces and absorbed into Scottish English), everyone tends to sit somewhere in the middle of this spectrum. We can usually slide up or down this spectrum depending on the situation and company we're in. |
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