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The myth of the ‘trustworthy’ Scottish accent

8 September 2018

9:00 AM

8 September 2018

9:00 AM

There was once a belief that for TV and radio commercials, a Scottish voice was more ‘trustworthy’. This was particularly the case for financial services ads. It was, however, a belief entirely without foundation. ‘We made it up,’ a banking executive once told me. ‘We’d moved our call centres up to Scotland, so we decided to use Scottish voices on our adverts.

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