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Glasgow Live
National
Sophie Buchan

Glasgow accent the 'most perplexing' in UK but apparently we sound 'intelligent'

We've all been told at least once in our lives that someone, who isn't from Scotland, can't understand us with many giving us a baffled look.

Now according to a new study the Glaswegian accent is officially a tough one to understand.

A survey of two thousand UK adults, conducted by language learning platform Preply, has revealed that our city comes out on top with the majority of those living in the UK, who took part in the survey, finding our accent the 'most perplexing' with almost two-in-five people (39.46 per cent) agreeing.

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