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Actress Teaches Son Scots

5th August 2010

This week in the press (Daily Record) it was reported that Scottish actress Ashley Jensen has been teaching her son Scots. Ashley, who starred in 'Ugly Betty' and 'Accidentally on Purpose', has been living in Los Angeles in the United States and said she was was terrified her one year old son would begin speaking with an American accent. Ashley, who is a native of Annan in Dumfriesshire, has been playing her son a CD of lullabies in Scots called 'Bairn's Kiss'. Her English husband was at first quite perplexed, she said, but he now joins in the lullabies in a Scottish accent.