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I'm not convinced it's relevant to say Fred Goodwin's residence is in nearby Marchmont(although I'd have palced it in The Grange). Suggest removing this as it adds nothing in relation to Mornignside. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cronoz ( talk • contribs) 09:07, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
Can we decide on a section format to apply to all areas of edinburgh - the info in each is in a different order and it looks bad. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jamesx12345 ( talk • contribs) 19:00, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Surely, the purportedly Anglified ACCENT is worth an entry. It is a partly mythical, hypothetical, social accent, famously embodied in the performance in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. There are jokes that show social awareness AND how this concept is in the past. (Q: what's sex in Morningside? A: what coal comes in). There is even a PhD thesis and continued reference in dialectology. and a dictionary definition. It's like Kelvinside in Glasgow. Brodie is characterised by non-rhoticity, careful enunciation, and TRAP-raising. In research, Johnston’s (1984) study of the Morningside accent in Edinburgh, some variables (and particularly the FACE and GOAT vowels) were shown to anglicise strongly in upper middle-class speech.
Johnston, Paul (1984). Variation in the Standard Scottish English of Morningside. English World-Wide, 4 (2): 133–85.
Johnston, Paul (1985). The rise and fall of the Morningside/Kelvinside accent. In Manfred Görlach (ed.), Focus on Scotland, 37–56. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Schützler O. (2014) Vowel Variation in Scottish Standard English: Accent-Internal Differentiation or Anglicisation?. In: Lawson R. (eds) Sociolinguistics in Scotland. Palgrave Macmillan, London
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/morningside - "an affected, refined accent associated with some residents of Morningside".
and in the Scottish National Dictionary - http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/sndns2606
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We could add living people like
I have substantially edited this article, as follows:
Mike Marchmont ( talk) 14:59, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
Just to add some other points:
Mike Marchmont ( talk) 15:09, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
I have now added the sub-section on the origin of street names. Mike Marchmont ( talk) 09:55, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
At 16:28, 12 November 2021, an IP editor added a statement to the effect that the clock was temporarily moved because of a large number of car crashes. I can find no evidence for this assertion, which I have flagged as "citation needed". Can someone provide a reference for this? If not, I intend to delete it. Thank you. Mike Marchmont ( talk) 09:50, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
UPDATE: Having now searched the relevant media, I can find no references to any car crashes, or any other kind of accidents, in connection with the clock. So I have removed the relevant statement. If any other editor has information to the contrary, by all means re-instate the sentence in question. Thank you. Mike Marchmont ( talk) 13:07, 16 November 2021 (UTC)