Re: The problem with Jazzer

badriya said the following on 31/10/2007 08:04:
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:44:37 -0000, "Anne Burgess"
<anne.andesite@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I find it mildly irritating that English producers/scriptwriters/directors or whatever seem to think that all Scots speak with a Glasgow accent. It would be pleasant if sometimes they used accents from other parts of Scotland, just as they mange to use accents from different parts of England.


I forget who was reading the news on Toady earlier but her accent
seems just tinged with a scots one and was very pleasant. They do use
other ones sometimes.

Susan Rae. She used to do a fair amount of TV work in the 80s.

Colin
.

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