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Morningside, n.
(ˈmɔːnɪŋsaɪd, Sc. mɔrnɪŋˈsaɪd)
The name of a residential district of Edinburgh, used attrib. or absol. to designate the supposedly affected and refined accent of its residents. Cf. Kelvinside n.
1953W. Taylor Scot Free 89 The wrongly castigated Kelvinside or Morningside accents. 1973Lowland Scots (Occas. Paper Assoc. Scottish Lit. Stud. No. 2) 10 The Scottish Augustans seem to have bequeathed us an inferiority complex and the Morningside accent. 1976Scotsman 24 Dec. (Weekend Suppl.) 1/7 He talks awful tosted breed, if ye unnerstan' my Morningside accent. 1984J. Gifford et al. Edinburgh 615 Morningside is a byword for Edinburgh gentility. 1986Sunday Tel. 9 Nov. 14/2 The authors have a keen ear for accents, whether Somerset, Morningside or ‘local’. |