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Janet

In article >,
says...
>
> 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.

Not necessarily. There are different regional accents and dialects in
Scotland.

Janet UK