Programming Quote by Ken MacLeod

“This is the Southland burr, the only distinctive regional accent in the country. It's a soft appealing noise, deriving, I presume, from the Sottish…

— Joe Bennett

“I want to forewarn you,” Bryon says seriously. “It’s very possible that I may start talking with a southern accent.” “That’s all right as…

— Dark Calling

Apparently when I went to school, I had a Glasgow accent.

— Annalena McAfee

Scotland's voice has to be heard

— Nicola Sturgeon

“I was thinking in a Scottish brogue, because I'd just heard this guy interviewed on NPR, Lonnie McSomething.”

— Patricia Gaffney

I know in London a Welsh hairdresser who has striven so vehemently to abolish his accent that he sounds like a man speaking with…

— Dylan Thomas

My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour…

— John Oliver

“The way he talked sounded part Yankee, part foreign, like one of those friendly Irish policeman in the old movies: "Ouch, mind you!”

— Barbara Kingsolver

Those English and Scottish know how to do accents.

— Joey McIntyre

“In Scotland, there is a rapid loss of all grandeur of mien and manners; a provincial eagerness and acuteness appear; the poverty of the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As a Scotsman, my accent can sometimes be difficult for people to understand.

— Robert Snodgrass

It's quite telling that the really big comedians - like John Bishop from Liverpool, Kevin Bridges from Glasgow, Peter Kay from Bolton - stand…

— Ardal O'Hanlon