Maybe living in Scotland has changed his accent.

@Marionville He had a north american sound to my ears.

@rogerbenham. I thought he sounded Canadian, which of course is North American. How does a Nova Scotian usually sound?

@Marionville Depends where they are. Cape Breton has a definite Scottish lilt as opposed to Newfoundland which is a grand mixture of all of it settlers, pretty well all of whom came from the British Isles and were very poor. So regional accents married together with unique words. I can hear Cornish in it. As you know, there are at least 4 accents in Belfast, Glasgow etc. Each old port had a special accent. Newcastle had a dock accent and a Tynesider and a Geordie though Durham claimed to be true Geordies. Nova Scotia proper and the accent becomes far less Scottish away from Cape Breton and St Annes. That said it is a much more pleasant accent than working class Ontario. BC has several accents and one soft one is nearly as pleasant to hear as a Stirling accent. The longer a family has been in one area so the more distinct the accent though after 47 years here I have largely lost my ability to pinpoint an English accent other than the growth of the Thames Estuary replacing my toffee nosed Oxford accent. I arrived here at 27 - too late to lose my educated ruling f-ing class accent.

@rogerbenham I have lived here in Northern Ireland for almost 50 years and still have the Edinburgh accent I arrived with...although I have assumed most of the local NI colloquialisms I’m sure!

Yes...it’s a tower which commemorates one of Scotland’s best known heroes William Wallace....remember Braveheart?

@Marionville I'm descended from Graham of Menteith (in part). Graham betrayed Wallace. My mother's side.
From Robert Bruce from my father's side but around 1650 there was a Sir John de Bentham from whom I'm a closer descendant.
On my mother's side there was one who sided with the king at Bosworth field and a later on who sided with the king at Edge Hill. Unlucky choices.

@Marionville It's all like the fact that Queenie descends from King Harold and Dukey descends from William at the battle of hastings.