For the last five years, it has never ceased to amaze me how many English-accent people I meet at meetings and events I attend.  I have periodically commented on what has felt a disporprtionate number of English-born people speaking in Baptist or charitable fora. 

The reality is, I'm just a bit thick!  The data shows that there are around 400,000 English-born adults living in Scotland out of a population of roughly 5,000,000 (I've rounded to make the sums easy).  Which means roughly 1 in 12 adults are English-born, so it's pretty inevitable, overall, that I will hear quite a lot of English accents.

What intrigues me is my sense that in the charitable organisations in which I move, the proportion is possibly higher, which gives me pause for thought. 

And if anyone is interested, there are roughly twice as many Scottish-born people living in England but with an overall population ten times that of Scotland, the dilution effect is huge, with less than 1 in 60 people being Scots.