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I enjoyed Fordyce Maxwell making fun of Dominic Watt's research suggesting that devolution is causing speakers in Berwick on Tweed to lose their Scottish accents. He responds to the suggestion that their /r/ sound is becoming a bit labial in the style of Jonathan Ross by saying:

'Show me the Jonathan Ross sound-alike in Berwick and I'll show you a man afraid to enter a pub...'

B-)

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