Edited sentence: Easton speaks with an accent which sounds very noticeably Scots to the ears of people from the US, while sounding markedly North American to people from Scotland — something that sparks criticism in her homeland.Her Scots accent is absent from her powerful singing voice.On more than one occasion she referred to 'England' when meaning Great Britain, something often done by Americans but held to be inexcusable coming from a Scot.This was compounded in an interview Easton conducted with Rantzen in 1989 reflecting on her success.To others it suggests affectation and a desire to dissociate herself from her Scottish roots.Unsurprisingly, a European accent makes her sound sophisticated and glamorous to American ears, while her hint of a North American accent is unfairly stereotyped as uncouth and barbarous by some Europeans.When she made an appearance at a concert in Glasgow in 1990, she was jeered off the stage by the audience