I should have said that I explained to Dick Gaughan, the folk
singer and a very intelligent man and a friend of mine, this
problem as to whether I was Scottish or not cos I am definiely
not English. And he said 'You think SCottish so you are Scottish'
after talking for an hour with me re Calton, Matt McGinn etc.
His rendish of Hamish's 'Banks of Sicily' is wonderful.
Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask]
Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Robin Hamilton wrote:
> Douglas:
>
>
> > I did correspond with Robert Crawford when he was at Oxford
> > but that is 15 years ago. I dont think he was pleased that
> > I didnt appreciate Bill Herbert's poetry.
>
> It's the _Akros_ syndrome. Baffles me. Mibe we're both just too old.
>
> > I heard him on the radio and got a great shock cos his
> > Oxford Bellshill accent seemed identical to mine on the
> > answerphone.
>
> His accent is Cambuslang [the Duncan Glenn lash] crossed with Oxford: mine
> is Darvel/Denniston/Cambuslang crossed with 20 years of English East
> Midlands.
>
> > My cousins say if I have a Scots accent then
> > it is very refined. The English get very puzzled as to where
> > I am from.
>
> Well, we all sound the same to them. And to Belfast bartenders.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Robin.
>
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