{"id":46,"date":"2008-06-24T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T10:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freelang.wordpress.com\/2008\/06\/24\/scottish-commuters-enjoy-a-little-french-fancy\/"},"modified":"2018-09-10T13:08:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T06:08:27","slug":"scottish-commuters-enjoy-a-little-french-fancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freelang.net\/blog\/scottish-commuters-enjoy-a-little-french-fancy,2008-06\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish commuters enjoy a little French fancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=justify>A French railway station announcer is proving a hit with commuters because of his exotic accent.<\/p>\n<p align=justify>Passengers at Edinburgh&#8217;s Haymarket Station have been amused to hear Vincent Houplain announcing Scottish destinations over the Tannoy system in his French accent. The 45-year-old Frenchman, who moved to Scotland nine years ago, learned Scotland&#8217;s placenames while working onboard trains, and now enjoys his job announcing departures to towns such as Inverkeithing, North Queensferry and Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p align=justify>A First ScotRail spokesman said: &#8220;Vincent is very popular with our customers. He really connects with people. He is a superb communicator \u2013 with a wonderful accent. Vincent puts a real smile on faces \u2013 both male and female.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=justify>So what do you think, do you like English being spoken with a French accent? What accent do you love, and which one do you really hate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A French railway station announcer is proving a hit with commuters because of his exotic accent. Passengers at Edinburgh&#8217;s Haymarket Station have been amused to hear Vincent Houplain announcing Scottish &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,23,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freelang.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freelang.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freelang.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freelang.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freelang.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.freelang.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2741,"href":"https:\/\/www.freelang.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/2741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freelang.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freelang.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freelang.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freelang.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}