Out of step

South of England speech inflections are ridiculed by Irvine Inglis (Letters, 5 September).

This is so reminiscent of the blinkered thinking of those 
Scottish football pundits who lambast English commentators and press for being “fans with laptops or microphones”.

While the tendency to lose all composure and sense of balance for supposedly neutral commentators and pundits is most irritating, the Scots are even more prone to this than others. You cannot have it both ways.

In the case of Mr Inglis and those who think in this way, the old chestnut about the mother watching her uncoordinated soldier son at a passing out parade and remarking that: “They’re all out of step but our Jock” comes immediately to mind.

Alexander McKay

New Cut Rigg

Edinburgh