Ye canna beat a Scotsman who likes a wee dram before his bedtime! 
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Mr. Scotts natural voice
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What's interesting is the lengths directors would go to to hide his missing finger. When he was on Hotel, the staging was such that one character introducing him to another held her hand just so that when he shook hands with the other, her hand was between the his and the camera. In a low budget film he played a county sheriff in, he spent the entire scene sitting at his desk with his hand in his lap, hidden from view. Sometimes, as in the Hotel example, it got to be really awkward.
I've been reading Jimmy Doohan's autobiography recently, and in it he says his initial read with the accent was more accurate (he got the accent from a fellow soldier he'd fought with in WW2), but the producers asked him to tone it back because they felt it'd be just a little too hard for people to understand. So he ended up deliberately doing a kind of 'faux' Scottish.
Thanks, that’s right; I'd forgotten that. But in any case there ARE Scots who sound like Scotty. There really are. Today. Right now.
They probably just didn't want to distract audiences. You don't want them thinking about an actor's missing finger when you want them to be engrossed in your story.
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I like to think it haunts the engineering room of every ship that bears the name Enterprise. On quiet nights, when the warp drive is humming low, they say you can hear its lone nail scratching...scratching...as it drags it's way through the Jefferies tubes.
The Scottish accent is a British accent.....I have visited Scotland once upon a time and I can tell you that while it may be a good deal smaller than say the US, accents there vary by where you live, just like they do in the States. I spent most of my time in Edinburgh and their accents were no where near as thick, to my unpracticed ear, as they were in say Northern Scotland. The British accent is the same way. I took a weekend trip to Wales too, and man, this older gentleman we met I could barely understand. The thing that amused me the most, being American, was one morning in Edinburgh being ask 'What time do you want to be knocked up?' I was likeExcussee Me? Means something totally different over there...
Anyway, point being, Scotty's genuineness as far as his Scottish accent goes depends on the location of the Scot judging him I imagine.
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Great Britain is the name of the island comprised of England, Wales and Scotland. Just as North America comprises USA , Canada and any other surrounding places. So no need to hide lol<backs away slowly before Scots friends see this>
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Well, there's fact, and then there's the heart !
I read an interesting article vis Brexit, where Uk citizens really think of themselves as English or Scottish, not in their heart of hearts as "British."
ring true with any British citizenz oot theirrr? (Rolling my r there)
I read an interesting article vis Brexit, where Uk citizens really think of themselves as English or Scottish, not in their heart of hearts as "British."
ring true with any British citizenz oot theirrr? (Rolling my r there)
This is true of nationalists on both sides of Hadrians Wall, and some welsh. Many of us are more...family like in the approach. Especially as there is probably actually family involved, and you can probably throw Ireland into that too. They are other countries...but not as other as other other countries. We also mix with everyone else who ends up here, so you are gonna have every mix imaginable. Of the Scots people I knew well and worked with, two were Chinese Scots, one was Indian Scots, in terms of family past. They were Scots though, more so that Scotty. Amusingly, I worked with two welsh actors, and another welsh,an coming in declared my Welsh accent the most convincing. Welsh is probably the only local bit of Ancestry I don’t have a claim to as far as I am aware. But I do really really like Cheese on toast.
Unless you're talking about Kevin Costner. He is objectively bad at accents.
I do remember reading somewhere a story from the early days of US-UK cooperation in WW2: Two ships in heavy fog near a US harbor, an American sailor hails "Is that an English vessel?" The Scots burr of the captain booms back across the water "BRITISH!"
As we say in the American South, I don't have an accent, ya'll have an accent.Including his own?
As a Nebraska native, I can proudly say that I have absolutely no accent of any kind. 
As the brother in law of a Nebraska native, I say you do.As a Nebraska native, I can proudly say that I have absolutely no accent of any kind.
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