Originally posted by: KitKat
Cyberdude, what region of Scotland are you from? And why is your accent unique? From isolation or from outside influences? (This is assuming your accent is regional. If it's just you or your family that speaks that way, then that's different.) It still might be considered 'Scottish', but placed on the edge of the dialect continuum.
First, I'm from Edinburgh. Secondly, well I'm not sure really. Some of my family think that I watched too much American TV when I was young and hence developed one closer to that. You could call it isolation because I never really went out and socialised with many people. Personally I think it's different because it's very clear, for example I never use and am not used to using dialect specific words such as "dinnae" for "don't".

When I was in Scotland at times I didn't even understand strong Scottish accents, so that reduces the chance of me speaking in one too =P

Anyway I know that's a crap (or even biased) explaination, so apologies =P. I'll be happy to answer further.