THE Scottish accent is problematic. Mocked worldwide, if occasionally found sexy (Shir Sean etc), it doesn’t seem to fit anywhere, not even ...

People from Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin and the north-east of England are better at detecting someone imitating their accent than people from London and Essex, new research has found. People from Belfast ...

Scottish accents in Hollywood aren’t just limited to Sean Connery’s masculine rolling r’s or the late James Doohan’s faux-brogue anymore. After Pixar set its latest computer-animated extravaganza ...

They rose to fame by disguising their Scots accents. But James McAvoy says he chose to direct a film based on the tale of a pair of Dundee rappers who fooled the music industry into believing they ...

Don’t try to bamboozle people from Scotland and Ireland by imitating their brogue—it likely won’t work. Residents of Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin and northeast England are better at detecting fake ...

Russell Crowe has vowed not to use a Scots accent when he plays the role made famous by the late Sir Sean Connery in the remake of cult-classic movie Highlander. Connery raised eyebrows in 1986 when ...

Harry Potter star ­Miriam Margolyes hasn’t forgotten her Scottish roots thanks to her dad, a GP brought up in the Gorbals in Glasgow. Dr Joseph Margolyes was loved by his daughter but unlike the ...

People from Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin and the north-east of England are better at detecting someone imitating their accent than people from London and Essex, new research from the University of ...