🔴 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 **Are Scottish accents really more aggressive? A linguist explains**

Amanda Cole

_“Many presume that Scottish accents sound harsh or, as they are often unfortunately characterised, gruff because of some inherent property: the throaty, fricative sound in loch, the striking glottal stop for “t” as in Fern Brady’s pronunciation of Scottish and the audible r’s in words like car.”_

🔗 https://theconversation.com/are-scottish-accents-really-more-aggressive-a-linguist-explains-253375.

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