Imagine coming to a Scottish uni and mocking Scottish accents. Get fucked, good to see some action on this. Also hilarious when this was raised a few months ago and it was shot down on here by the usual suspects.

by SaltTyre

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  1. Having worked at the Uni, I experienced this firsthand. Not only making fun of Scottish folk and their accents, but alluding to Scotland being a shithole.

    It amazed me the hate for Scotland I witnessed from people going to Uni IN SCOTLAND! I figured a lot of this is from bitterness of not getting into their first few Uni choices down in England.

  3. > I had a tutor in my first year who said he could tell who was privately educated based on people’s writing, and we had a Scottish student who had her accent mocked back to her by a member of staff.

    I know plenty people that went to private school and had atrocious handwriting.

    And as for mocking the Scottish accent, would they do the same to Chinese or Indian students? They wouldn’t dare (and rightly so).

  4. > Third-year English literature student Holly Longman-Bradfield says she’s often mocked for her accent in class.
    > “I’m from Ayrshire originally, so for that reason I say ‘po-yum’ and not ‘poem’. That has been kind of the main thing on my actual course, being giggled at in seminars for the way that I pronounce different things,” she said.

    Well how the fuck else are people expecting it to be pronounced ? It’s a two-syllable word for fucks sake.

    Are they pronouncing it like pome, or what.

  5. It wasn’t as bad when I was a PhD student, and thus teaching part time, but we got 1 or 2.

    They are usually Oxbridge rejects, so I used to share a quote from the Senior Tutor my undergrad interview in England …

    “If you receive an offer it will be 3 A’s and a 1, sorry no margin for error. (turns to me) … we are aware standatds are higher in Scotland and your offer will reflect this”.

    Jaws. Floor.

  6. When I did a masters in Edinburgh ten years ago it was rather the entitled asian students (with horrible English!) who used to giggle every time our Scottish lecturer spoke. Might be a general posh uni thing – they attract entitled jerks.

  7. It’s not just an issue of accents; it’s about class.

    Classism is a rampant disease in, particularly ancient, Scottish Universities and my entire University experience was defined by it. Every single day my impoverished upbringing was very apparent to those around me and folks loved to remind me of it.

    I’ll never forget being lectured about how irresponsible I am for taking maintenance loans or how lucky I am and how jealous everyone was that I got grants and subsidised housing.

  8. One of the cringiest events I’ve ever witnessed was the then Chancellor of St Andrews with her clipped RP accent delivering an online ‘Auld Lang Syne’ during Covid

    I held it together until she murdered,

    And there’s a haun ma trusty fiere,

    And gie’s a hand o thine,

    And we’ll tak a richt guid-willie waught.

    At that stage camera off and mute, with tears and snot streaming with the giggles.

    At least she tried…

  10. That was a pretty wonky sounding Shetland accent, it was almost as if the speaker overthought her own accent in the process of recording. That said, she could be from Whalsay

  11. This post is fucking hilarious.

    The point of the article is that making fun of people for how they speak is bad. And the r/Scotland response is to mock “poshos”, “oxbridge rejects”, “toffs” and anyone else whose voice is different to a very small section of 20-something central belt Scots.

    Gie your fucking heads a wobble you idiots.

  13. Yeah. A lot of English posho and their judas Scottish “pick me pick me I want to be a sloaney knob too!” mates did this when I went there.

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