Dr. Frank. Jones—says,—I have often been asked to express am opinion as to where the best English is spoken in Britain. if, by this, is vacant freedom from colloquialism and dialect, then i am inclined to award the palm to the folks of Inverness, who speak beautiful English. Further, a Scotsman applying for an important starting life in an English city starts with a decided advantage over his English confreres in this respect. An Englishman with a decided dialect is handicapped in applying for an important appointment; it is regarded as due to lack of education. A man from over the Horder, however, is not handicapped, his accent is accepted as not due to any lack of education, but as peculiarly natural to him. In fact, pronounced accent is a great asset to a Scotsman, for it proclaims that he is a Scot.
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