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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, my sister-in-law's family are from Dundee. I can definitely confirm that.

They clearly meant to get Edinburgh (although that also implies they've never been to Edinburgh) but went too wide.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My mum was born in Dundee. When she went to work on the switchboard at the gas company as a teenager, the very first thing they did was send her to an elocution class to get rid of the Dundee accent ๐Ÿ˜‚

To her dying day, she still answered the phone like Hyacinth Bucket

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I once answered the phone when "Granny" rang, scared the life out of me.