1743She’d gone for her job interview, and word got back to the current members staff that the company was about to hire “someone Scottish”. Our subject’s accent was duly discussed in the office, and eventually someone compared it to Robin Williams’s portrayal of Mrs Doubtfire.

“When I started my job they were all saying ‘oh you don’t sound like Mrs Doubtfire!” she explains in her audio clip, where you can hear her accent for yourselves.

“I was initially a little bit offended by it, because actually Mrs Doubtfire is an American man, in drag, putting on a Scottish woman’s voice. But I did find it quite amusing.”

Taken at the Merceica offices in Camden, London, UK.