On Tuesday, June 12, 2018 at 6:39:03 PM UTC-4, S Viemeister wrote:
> On 6/12/2018 12:56 PM, Ophelia wrote:
>
> > So long as you don't ever ask them if they are English ... you might
> > have ended up a bloody mess!!!
>
> My mother was frequently mistaken for English when she was stationed at
> Bomber Command. She had Highland parents, and was educated in Edinburgh,
> so she didn't sound like Harry Lauder...

A while back we had two employees in our UK office who are Scots. One
of my U.S. co-workers wondered why he could understand one of them but
not the other. I conjectured it was social class.

Cindy Hamilton