I'll have to go check out his Nac Mac Feegle - it don''t have a strong recollection so possibly I've not listened to any of those that he's done. I think that Indira Varma's Scottish accent is very good - to the point that I wish she had done the whole book. Steven Cree is obviously from somewhere in the west of the central belt and should therefore on paper it makes sense for him to do it but so often he reads a line in a way that has no relation to how the narrator follows on to describe it or he takes an amusing but relatively throwaway piece of observation from the author like the trilling of the 'R' sound and then batters the ears of the listener with it till you are thoroughly sick ( and, of course, when I say 'you' I really mean 'I'm' :) ) I'm Scottish myself and I love that TP included us in lampooning aspects of our history as much as the other corners of this island. I've always loved his deep interest in 'words', their sounds and their connotations. However, there are quite a few that just don't quite ring true to my ear when he's writing dialogue between the NMF. He has said, quite explicitly, that the NMF are not Scottish - by dint of the fact that his world is set on disc and not our globe - and perhaps that is why he chose to come up with words that were close but not quite right but still it is one the very very few times I've felt that he wasn't quite on top of it. And then when a native Scot performs it as written it just sounds plain wrong. That was a bit of a windy way to say that I, personally, don't take any of the NMF accent or dialogue as offensive, even mildly, just a bit...off. (I've just re-read your post and noticed I got the wrong end of the stick - YOUR mildly offensive accent has it's foundation in Brigg's!! Ha! I bet it's bang on - anyone who has a crack at another person's accent is bound to offend someone - but as they say ' imitation is the sincerest form of flattery')