Why do people think that scousers are from scotland or irland?{i am a scouser lol i come from liverpool!}?

scouser talk!

First time I hear something like that
john

I don't!!

never heard of anyone saying scousers are from scotland or ireland everone knows scousers are from liverpool

Do they? I wasn't aware of that fact.

I didn't know anyone did think that!

Who on earth have you been talking to? I have never heard of scousers being mistaken for Scottish or Irish in my life. Occasionally as a manc but never anywhere else.

i don't know what your on about, everyone knows scousers are from Liverpool

people often get accents mixed up, i am from cumbria and people often ask me if I'm from tyneside or newcastle. although to me the scouse accent is fairly distinctive....

erm i dont think people do think that and if they do they musnt come from the uk!
x

They are actually very closely linked.
It comes from the irish immigrants who worked on the docks. Belfast and Dublin had direct routes to Liverpool and Glasgow. These were the first port of calls to England for irish immigrants. This is why Celtic (irish club) are in glasgow, and Liverpool and Everton have routes with catholic (liverpool and celtic) and Protestant (rangers and everton - both blue) This is why the souse accent is unique to england, and the glaswegian different to the rest of scotland.

I don't think that and I don't know anyone who does

Who thinks this?? Everyone knows a Scouse is from Liverpool...

Everyone in the WHOLE world knows the people in Lpool are called Scousers because they used to eat some stuff called 'Lob Scouse'.

Lob Scouse may have been a legendary animal - now extinct of course - possibly related to the famous and legendary Liver Bird (Which is principally famous because it sits on a building and never moves.)

But more likely it was a kind of stew (though what went in it is consigned to the rubbish bin of history I expect - haven't heard of it in AGES - but it could have been anything from burgers to bananas and probably was given the cosmopolitan nature of the port).

Scots eat a dreadful animal called a Haggis and also they deep fry Mars bars (such healthy-living people the Scots) but they don't have much to do with the Lob Scouse unless Lob Scouse is in fact an animal.

The Irish eat a stew too and so Lob Scouse could well be descended from Irish stew which is of course possible there being so many LPudlians of Irish descent.

Maybe people are confusing their stews.

Tis a simple mistake made by people who are generally not from the UK and are unable to tell the difference in our regional accents. I am Scottish and have been mistaken for Swedish, German and Dutch by people in the Southern US states, and English IS my native language :o)

Who does?
You are from England.

I can honestly say in thirty five years of life I have never heard such a thing. Have you been talking to people from the states?

Never heard of that ? Scouser`s a scouser ......

I've been in Ireland, and talked to the locals there in my Liverpool accent, and they've asked me whereabouts in Ireland I'm from. Maybe the Liverpool accent has been influenced by the large influx of Irish in the past.

I wasn't aware they did. I have always associated scousers with Liverpool & Merseyside myself. I suspect I speak on behalf of all, or most, of my fellow Scots!
:)

I'm a scouser too and I always end up being either Scottish or Dutch =S Think it might have somethin to do with the speed we talk at lol

It is because we speak fast though we don't think so, i have often been mistaken for irish and i have a strong scouse accent i've heard myself.

never heard that one b4. lol

I know exactly what you mean - I used to live in Italy and people thought my Scouse accent was Irish!

because of the migrants from ireland who settled in liverpool.
im in lancs so i don't mix it up with irish,but my australian friends thought my scouse mates were irish.

Beacause like the Irish and the Scots you go on about how hard done by you all feel and never get off your lazy 'rses to do anything about it.