Which American Accent do you find the most appealing

[aNonnyMoose]

Rabber bampirs...

Eh ken a bunchae Stornowegians wha huv naehin bit contempt fir they Kessock fairies, as they refer tae the denizens ae Snecky... an tae be ferr eh dae prefer thir accent tae the Snecky wan.

[Polwarth]

Ur you TRYING tae insult us centril beltir, MrsP? D'ye hink we cannae unerstaun an accent like a Sneckie wan? We ur ejikatit fowk.

[aNonnyMoose]

Yi cannae insult a Centralbeltir, Pol. The mere fact ae thir existence is insultin enuff...

Haw haw haw!

[Polwarth]

Jaikit.... shoogly

[aNonnyMoose]

[keyhole kate]

Originally Posted by Polwarth

Jaikit.... shoogly

Pol, I have tae ask...whit diz "shoogly" mean? (in context) I get the jaiket bit, but ah've often wondered whit ye mean when ye add ....shoogly.
Daft questyin, ah know...

[Celyn]

Originally Posted by keyhole kate

Pol, I have tae ask...whit diz "shoogly" mean? (in context) I get the jaiket bit, but ah've often wondered whit ye mean when ye add ....shoogly.
Daft questyin, ah know...

Daring to wander in and answer for Polwarth here, I say it's all about shaky, wobbly, insecurely attached, or wobbly in the way that some transport methods - o the old trams of people's strangely beloved memory - (not mine, though, I mean, I only heard of the trams in history books* ..... oh aye, that's right ...... ) did shake, rattle and roll and wobble on the lines.

"your jacket is on a shaky nail"

= "Your position in this workplace or this organisation is now very insecure"

= "Your jaiket is on a shoogly nail"




*Admission: the shoogly trams died off in 1962, I think, so I only missed them by a wee bit. There! See me not lying about my age?