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October 24 2005

We were certainly treated to a fairly comprehensive list of Jack McLean's dislikes on October 22. He doesn't like the idea of a Scottish Six, he doesn't like the Shetland accent and he doesn't like other people having bairns.

He spectacularly misses the point about the Scottish Six: there is no reason to believe it would be parochial. If he were to watch the regional news from London he would find it is just as concerned with parish-pump affairs as is the Scottish regional news. There is every reason to think that British and international news from a Scottish perspective would be high quality and possibly less parochial than the present "national" news.
The accent he objects to is presumably that of Cameron Stout, a genial young man from Orkney with little artifice. His accent is perfectly genuine and preferable to some of the "pit oan" offerings with which the broadcasting media abound.

Rest of the story Herald

Yeh - cos I have SUCH a Shetland accent.

(Not read the whole article yet, so better had before I rant lol)

Gosh, the Shetland Accent; room 101 with you Cameron.


Actually, I kind of like the Orcadian burr; its a lot nicer than some of the accents out there.

I think he speaks for us all on that one!

Who's Jack McLean?

blimey you aint arf got a monk on about this one

Heeey! My friend from Shetland actually has a very nice accent.

Some of them are stronger than others Jezi, like anywhere else I guess, my friends accent isn't too bad either I have to say.

exactly

he's just a jumped up feature journilist with the herald who does a weekly article about himself he's been talking shite about all manner of things for decades

LOL - thanks hippooo. Wasn't meant to be a sarky question, really.

According to some other paper last week, I am the 'ludicrous' Cameron Stout. No bad eh...