“When my grandmother makes a mistake, she says 'Ah tell a leh'... But I feel the same whenever I use conversational English picked up after fourteen years at Oxford. Or whenever I lapse into a full-throated Dundonian Scots at home and someone announces, 'Ye've no lost yir accent'. Herbert speak with forked tongue.” Scots LanguageOxford UniversityDundeeSpeak With Forked Tongue Book:Don't Ask Me What I Mean: Modern Poets in their Own Words Source: Don't Ask Me What I Mean: Modern Poets in their Own Words