As with "Oor Wullie", Watkins left the location of the strips un-named, although the Broons' tenement is located on Glebe Street, a commonly used name in many Scottish towns. However as originally written, Watkins' use of words and phrases more commonly associated with the east coast of Scotland, such as "bairn" for "child", as opposed to the west-central "wean", suggests he was using his own immediate environment (he lived in Broughty Ferry().He worked in Dundee and the Broons' dialect is mainly Dundonian. Watkins however was the artist and not the writer, and he was not Scottish so unlikely to have this level of grasp of the Dundee dialect. Paw Broon worked in the Dockyards, and lived in an urban tenement on the East coast of Scotland - this and his accent,and the location of D.C. Thomson's publishing firm can only lead to Dundee.