The Cutural Capital
Edinburgh The final blog post is on the Capital - Edinburgh, Scotland’s most traditional and iconic city. Now bombarded with tourists, Edinburgh is a pleasant and patriotic city. If you wander the main streets of Edinburgh today, you are doing so along with people and languages from all over the world - this is huge asset to the country and is credit to the city’s beauty. What’s false is the perception ‘people from Edinburgh don’t have an accent’. I think this is because Edinbronians argue to be more refined? An Edinburgh accent is less rough and hoarse but it still has its strange quirks -one of these being the exaggerated flowing movement of sentences. You can be speaking to someone as if they don’t actually want to end the sentence with their mouth hanging open. Ask someone where they're from and they say ‘Edinbruuggggh’ - a useless element of speech that is generally used whilst asking a question. Venture a little further North and this becomes ...
