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BearSkins wrote:100% Scottish but been in the US for 4 years now. Not lost my accent yet though and doubt I ever will. Question I get asked the most is......"What??"

When I visited Scotland, I think they understood me OK, but I got lost at times:

"Sah'tn in or tahk-away?"

I learned that the answer to that can never be "yes."

Irn-Bru wrote:

BearSkins wrote:100% Scottish but been in the US for 4 years now. Not lost my accent yet though and doubt I ever will. Question I get asked the most is......"What??"

When I visited Scotland, I think they understood me OK, but I got lost at times:

"Sah'tn in or tahk-away?"

I learned that the answer to that can never be "yes."

You mean "aye," "nae?"

Even those are wrong. And that's what I learned, whatever I said was wrong.

BearSkins wrote:100% Scottish but been in the US for 4 years now. Not lost my accent yet though and doubt I ever will. Question I get asked the most is......"What??"

That's funny, I never noticed your accent.


I'm white btw.

My grandmother is half Cherokee. I guess I have a little.

BnGhog wrote:I guess I have a little.

None of you smarties need to finish that line ok.

BnGhog wrote:

BnGhog wrote:I guess I have a little.

None of you smarties need to finish that line ok.

BnGhog wrote:

BnGhog wrote:I guess I have a little.

None of you smarties need to finish that line ok.

I can think of a million answers to that

Aussie born and bred for 5 generations then Manx and then Norse

100% Armenian, born in Livonia Michigan, living in Southern Ontario Canada, and a citizen of the US and Canada!!

Irn-Bru wrote:Even those are wrong. And that's what I learned, whatever I said was wrong.

WRANG. Not wrong.



Actually, with a name like Irn-Bru I'd have thought you'd have been fine over there.

My grandfather and grandmother on one side immigrated from Ireland and on the other side a longer history here but again mostly Irish. That makes me 100% American.

GSPODS wrote:Wait until West Virginia and Tennessee get NFL franchises.

Ever heard of the Titans?

As for the topic: I am as American as possible, but English before that.

BearSkins wrote:

Irn-Bru wrote:Even those are wrong. And that's what I learned, whatever I said was wrong.

WRANG. Not wrong.



Actually, with a name like Irn-Bru I'd have thought you'd have been fine over there.

The name came after I returned.

Loved that stuff. I've seen a product called "Iron Brew" in a grocery store here.

Irn Bru is the perfect "morning after" hangover cure. A cold glass of that and a greasy roll n' square sausage - sorted!

BearSkins wrote:100% Scottish but been in the US for 4 years now. Not lost my accent yet though and doubt I ever will. Question I get asked the most is......"What??"

No Black? For that matter, no Grizzly or Kodiak?

KazooSkinsFan wrote:

BearSkins wrote:100% Scottish but been in the US for 4 years now. Not lost my accent yet though and doubt I ever will. Question I get asked the most is......"What??"

No Black? For that matter, no Grizzly or Kodiak?

I was thinking panda or teddy

Or even Gummi.

Interesting thread. I'm Scots-Irish, with a touch of Oglala Sioux on my maternal Grandmother's side. According to my father, who once traced our family tree, I am a distant distant (WAY distant lol) descendant of Mary Queen of Scots...

We all know how that turned out -

My heritage has been difficult for me at times, as you can imagine. The British Isles in me LOVES me whiskey (God did invent it to keep us from taking over the world, 'tis true)...but then the native American in me takes over and I have to struggle not to scalp myself...

BigRedskinDaddy wrote:Interesting thread. I'm Scots-Irish, with a touch of Oglala Sioux on my maternal Grandmother's side. According to my father, who once traced our family tree, I am a distant distant (WAY distant lol) descendant of Mary Queen of Scots...

We all know how that turned out -

My heritage has been difficult for me at times, as you can imagine. The British Isles in me LOVES me whiskey (God did invent it to keep us from taking over the world, 'tis true)...but then the native American in me takes over and I have to struggle not to scalp myself...

Another interesting angle, WHO are you descended from. I'm descended from the Adams family.

Just to clarify on that, it's as in John and John Quincy, not Gomez and Morticia. Note the ONE "d."

KazooSkinsFan wrote:

BigRedskinDaddy wrote:Interesting thread. I'm Scots-Irish, with a touch of Oglala Sioux on my maternal Grandmother's side. According to my father, who once traced our family tree, I am a distant distant (WAY distant lol) descendant of Mary Queen of Scots...

We all know how that turned out -

My heritage has been difficult for me at times, as you can imagine. The British Isles in me LOVES me whiskey (God did invent it to keep us from taking over the world, 'tis true)...but then the native American in me takes over and I have to struggle not to scalp myself...

Another interesting angle, WHO are you descended from. I'm descended from the Adams family.

John Augustine Washington, George's brother, is my 8th great grandfather.

KazooSkinsFan wrote:Just to clarify on that, it's as in John and John Quincy, not Gomez and Morticia. Note the ONE "d."

thanks....i had images of uncle fester there for a moment.

Hoss wrote:

KazooSkinsFan wrote:Just to clarify on that, it's as in John and John Quincy, not Gomez and Morticia. Note the ONE "d."

thanks....i had images of uncle fester there for a moment.

Oh, he does look just like uncle Fester, lightbulb in the mouth and all.

JSPB22 wrote:

Hoss wrote:

KazooSkinsFan wrote:Just to clarify on that, it's as in John and John Quincy, not Gomez and Morticia. Note the ONE "d."

thanks....i had images of uncle fester there for a moment.

Oh, he does look just like uncle Fester, lightbulb in the mouth and all.

KazooSkinsFan wrote:

BigRedskinDaddy wrote:Interesting thread. I'm Scots-Irish, with a touch of Oglala Sioux on my maternal Grandmother's side. According to my father, who once traced our family tree, I am a distant distant (WAY distant lol) descendant of Mary Queen of Scots...

We all know how that turned out -

My heritage has been difficult for me at times, as you can imagine. The British Isles in me LOVES me whiskey (God did invent it to keep us from taking over the world, 'tis true)...but then the native American in me takes over and I have to struggle not to scalp myself...

Another interesting angle, WHO are you descended from. I'm descended from the Adams family.

I am related to both Rob Roy MacGregor and Leif Erikson. Also, for Washingtonians, Oliver T. Carr is my grandmother's cousin.

JSPB22 wrote:

Hoss wrote:

KazooSkinsFan wrote:Just to clarify on that, it's as in John and John Quincy, not Gomez and Morticia. Note the ONE "d."

thanks....i had images of uncle fester there for a moment.

Oh, he does look just like uncle Fester, lightbulb in the mouth and all.

I do not. I mean sure, the lightbulb, but I'm not bald.