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We already know he’s used to hearing Scottish accents at home. And we already know he loves those highland, um, ‘delicacies’ of minced lamb guts and pigs’ blood — and we pass no judgment upon him for somehow enjoying haggis and black pudding.

But there were a few moments during David Norman Jr.’s loan to Scottish Championship side Queen of the South that he felt distinctly Canadian.

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“It wasn’t too bad,” the Whitecaps’ midfielder mused this week, “but there were still times when some of the boys, when they got going with their thick Scottish accents, I was struggling to keep up.”

But that was pretty much the only time he couldn’t keep pace during his three-month loan. In fact, most of the time, opposition teams saw more of his bahookie than the ball as he patrolled the centre midfield as a No. 6, making seven starts in 10 appearances.

Doonhamers assistant manager Dougie Anderson, who helped broker the move through his connection with former Whitecaps assistant Gordon Forrest, was impressed by what he saw in Norman.