13 APRIL 1991, Page 22

Accent abuse

Sir: Can any reader answer the question why, when listening to residents of South Ronaldsay in television interviews, we only ever hear the accents of southern England and never the voice of an Orcadian?

Were only the offspring of English émig- rés removed from the island to Inverness? Deryk Wakem

59, Bridge Street, Deeping St James, Lincolnshire