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Does Simon Pegg do an accurate Scottish accent?

jamestyler said:
Pegg does a better Scottish accent than I do. And I'm Scottish.

There's always some protective madness when someone does the accent, but Pegg's not playing a guy wandering through the Barra's looking for dodgy DVD's. He's a professional aboard a mixed crew. He sounds pretty much like the people I know in the navy and army who's accent tends to loosen up to communicate, or artists/actors who've had to adjust to reach a wider audience.

I had to adjust my accent just to tour England and have lost my regional tones for something a bit more 'generic' (BBC Scottish-ish) over time.

Compared to my dad (who's been living in the US for around ten years and who's voice has become a strange blend) that Scotty's accent's held up fairly strong.
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How dare you, i have never walked roon the barra's looking for DVD's, it was Atari St 520 games, £2:50 each, don't hate me. lol

But yeah,i doubt most people around the world would pick up everything Pegg said if he had went full Glaswegian, but he has a very good mix of both a Glasgow accent like mine,(aye, naw, kertoons, watter, gress, mulk, doon), and a actors version of a Glasgow accent, (Yes, No, Cartoons, Water, Grass, Milk, Down), which it think works out very well.
 
When he picks up the phone to answer Kirk while he is drowning his sorrows, he does a very good "Whit?" (All three sounds being particularly non-standard English - the initial wh (not w), the centralised vowel and the glottal stop). He obviously has some comedic value in the film - a Scotsman playing a Scotsman with a similar remit would sound like Pegg. As has been pointed out here - he is essentially doing a parody of Scotty, but with a real Scottish accent which Doohan could only dream of.
 
I couldn't disagree more. As a Scotsman I find Doohan's accent realistic and Pegg's to be cartoonish. OIt's my only bug bear with NuTrek.
 
Macruic said:
To any Scottish people here (or people who claim to be Scottish) - if you think Doohan's accent is more Scottish than Pegg's, I have no adequate words to express my bemusement! Go to Glasgow, they speak like Pegg there...
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Well I don't think either are particulary authentic. Being Edinburgh born and bred the slightest hint of a Glaswegian accent immediatly gets my ears pricking. I just don't hear it in Pegg's accent.

What's with the "claiming to be Scottish" swipe for?
 
But wasn't that his intention? Scotty is supposed to be from Aberdeen.

I live in Aberdeen and Pegg's softer lilt is much closer to what I hear than Doohan's. But as has already been said, both actors are doing TV friendly Scottish accents. When I speak to my neighbour, I haven't got a fucking Scooby Doo what he's saying.

I just nod and assume it's probably about haggis or porridge.
 
He also mentions the marvelous fogs WE have in Aberdeen. For a Glaswegian, he sure reminisces about Aberdeen a lot.

And didn't Doohan say he based the accent on an Aberdonian he met in England during the war?
 
JKM said:
That's one way to look at it. Guess the same can be said for Spock, but to me that's what makes it work.To me he wouldn't be McCoy without that personality.
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Totally disagree, Urban could put his own personality to the role without aping DeForest Kelley; when he mimics Kelley's beats and tone it's close to parody and destroys the importants of the character. Bones is more than just, "Damn it, Jim..." or "Are you out of your Vulcan mind?" or "Im a Doctor, not a..." he's a perfectionist surgeon who sees the world rationally. Urban's McCoy is another form of comic relief in the JJTrek films, which has become another element of redundancy.
 
STEPhon IT said:
Totally disagree, Urban could put his own personality to the role without aping DeForest Kelley; when he mimics Kelley's beats and tone it's close to parody and destroys the importants of the character. Bones is more than just, "Damn it, Jim..." or "Are you out of your Vulcan mind?" or "Im a Doctor, not a..." he's a perfectionist surgeon who sees the world rationally. Urban's McCoy is another form of comic relief in the JJTrek films, which has become another element of redundancy.
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I'm gonna pretend you didn't say that. ;)
 
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I've never heard a scotsman who sounds anything like Doohan. Pegg's sounds more familiar to me.
 
jamestyler said:
Pegg does a better Scottish accent than I do. And I'm Scottish.

There's always some protective madness when someone does the accent, but Pegg's not playing a guy wandering through the Barra's looking for dodgy DVD's. He's a professional aboard a mixed crew. He sounds pretty much like the people I know in the navy and army who's accent tends to loosen up to communicate, or artists/actors who've had to adjust to reach a wider audience.

I had to adjust my accent just to tour England and have lost my regional tones for something a bit more 'generic' (BBC Scottish-ish) over time.

Compared to my dad (who's been living in the US for around ten years and who's voice has become a strange blend) that Scotty's accent's held up fairly strong.
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I'm a Scot as well and I most definatly don't have a Scottish accent but's thats due to having grown up mostly in England.
 
Doohan's accent wasn't necessarily accurate. It wasn't bad at conveying Scottish, but it wasn't fooling anyone either. Pegg's does actually sound more like the real thing. It helps that Pegg's real-life wife is Scottish, so he's exposed to the accent a lot at home.
 
hux said:
And didn't Doohan say he based the accent on an Aberdonian he met in England during the war?
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Yes he did. So, Doohan based his accent on a guy from Aberdeen, yet the people of Linlithgow claimed Scotty as their own (much as Riverside, Iowa did with Jim Kirk), and Pegg is doing something vaguely Glaswegian... I guess Scotty did a lot of travelling around Scotland.
 
Iamnotspock said:
Yes he did. So, Doohan based his accent on a guy from Aberdeen, yet the people of Linlithgow claimed Scotty as their own (much as Riverside, Iowa did with Jim Kirk), and Pegg is doing something vaguely Glaswegian... I guess Scotty did a lot of travelling around Scotland.
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The search for a perfect pint was a long one.
 
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