Scottish accents come in many varieties and when I feel threatened, mine defaults to the one I learned as a child, one that sounds nothing like how I learned to speak at home.
My industrial-grade Scots accent wasn’t always helpful in tricky situations, sometimes I needed a more nuanced approach to making friends.
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