Oor Wullie picks up an English accent

Help ma Boab, and keech like that....Oor Wullie is becoming anglicised according to this report in the Scotsman.

I can't help thinking that the dialect issue is secondary here to the news that German academics get a PhD for reading Oor Wullie cartoons.

...or that Edinburgh University can afford to fund an entire Institute for Historical Dialectology.