Accentricity podcast, episode 15: Claire's Story

This is episode 15 of Accentricity, a podcast about sociolinguistics. In this podcast I try to narrow the gap between academic and non-academic understandings of language, by speaking to a range of people from inside and outside of academia.

Claire is learning to speak Doric, a variety of Scots that comes from the North East of Scotland. But when she speaks it, it makes her husband, who grew up with Doric, feel uncomfortable. In this episode, she tries to understand why this might be.