Inverness Spoiled By Doric Speakers

[RiG]

http://news.scotsman.com/inverness.cfm?id=226022007

I lol'd at this. When has Inverness ever spoken the best English?

[Alex MacLeod]

RiG, a little piece of learning for you...When I was being educated it was well publicised that Inverness people (except the Ferry area) spoke the nearest to Queens English.

[RiG]

I've heard people speak about it but have never really found any valid backing to these claims. Two drunk Invernesians were trying to tell an old Granny on a train to Aberdeen that they spoke the best English as they were from Inverness.

It was hard to take them seriously with dribble running down their face and one of them falling into the luggage rack.

[clacher_holiday2]

always thought that was a load of pish myself, its probably more the case that in the past nobody in inverness even heard how others around the country spoke

im sure when those rumours were first started the queen was speaking in german

[Heilandee]

Best English meh erse,.......they canne even say peh properly up here!!!!

[Charles Bannerman]

Unglush longwudge.... yerjokeenmun!!!

[f*ballers wife]

oh my!!!

mayhaps, young man, they were articulating about us articulate personages in the southern parts of or the shire?  :014:

[The Mantis]

What an excuse for me to drag out that poem again about the block poodeen sapper .... :023:

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

Fit shitt mun.

[Charles Bannerman]

FW... if you reckon you're entitled to call me "young man" then you must be Footballer's Granny!

[Johnboy]

Ah dinna think the Queen's English is awfa braw...ken whit ah mean, like...?

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

Watch out FW - Bannerman has a reputation with grannies, running shoes and showers - but when he sees you he will just throw in the towel.  :014:

[f*ballers wife]

oh my!!!

i'm not QUITE sure how to take that one howdi?  :010:

throwing in the towel, is that good or bad?  :024:

and 'young man', its all the good living that keeps me so young looking.  :023:

[Heilandee]

Eh'd like to see a fottee fae Portree on Saturday night  of yer good livin!!  Gie Harry meh regards.I'll be with ya in spirits  :drinking04:

[f*ballers wife]

oh my!!!

ok babe, will send you one when i get back.  will give him your regards.

will have one for you, or a couple to be on the safe side! hick~!~!

[clacher_holiday2]

froma ferree masell like an even aye'v a hoor a time undershtandung folk up at way

[Alex MacLeod]

ach a no, seen ya doon tha paab wi yar noo woollie jaamper th other day mun.

[gerx13]

Always thought the claim was down to irony. As for the past 300 years every other accent you hear in town is English, rather than the natives command of the Queens english.  :024: