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There's a cartoon from 1947 or so in which Donald changes his voice thanks to some kind of miracle tonic, because even Daisy can't understand what he's saying. I've always thought he has a speech impediment that's rare even for ducks. Similarly, there's another cartoon from that era where he hires a physical double, and he has a suave human voice.
Of course, you could also subscribe to the theory that cartoon!Donald is a character portrayed by actor!Donald, but that gets a bit complicated when you pull comics!Donald into the mix.

Okay, so we've gotten off topic...but we're still discussing Scrooge. That makes everything okay, right? For those who are unfamiliar with Alan Young, he was born Agnus Young in 1919 in North Shields, northeast England. From age 1 to age 6, he lived in Scotland, then moved with his family to Canada. He had several radio and television series in the United States and Canada. From 1961 to 1966, he starred on Mr. Ed as Wilbur Post, the owner of a horse who could talk...but wouldn't talk to anyone but Wilbur. Young has voiced Scrooge since 1983. He was also the voice of a similar character, Haggis McHaggis, on several 1990s Ren & Stimpy cartoons and he voiced Farmer Smurf in the 1980s Smurfs series. Young, still living at 95, wrote an autobiography in 1995. It was titled Mr. Ed & Me. In 2007, an updated version, Mr. Ed & Me & More, was released. Unfortunately, both editions are now out of print but the newer one is available on Kindle.
http://www.amazon.com/Mister-Ed-More-Alan-Young/dp/0979740401
dkenny mentioned Scrooge's "Bless me bagpipes" excalamation. Does anyone know the origin and exact meaning of "Cushlamachree," the word that Scrooge has uttered in several comic stories of the 1990s and 2000s? I searched for answers and couldn't find any references connecting the word with Scrooge. A woman named Cushla Machree emigrated from Galway to New York in 1849. There was also a ship with that name. The word means "joy of my heart" in Gaelic. Is that what it means when Scrooge says it?

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I just thought of something. (Yes, I do think of things sometimes.) Donald Duck made his first appearance in the 1934 short The Wise Little Hen. He often appeared in the Mickey Mouse comic strips before getting his own comic strip in 1938. Comic books featuring Donald originated in Italy and the UK in 1937 and began publication in the US in 1940. Even though we had heard Donald's voice in dozens of animated shorts, did any of us have that voice in mind when we were reading the comic strips and comic books in the 1960s? And, if so, did we also try to imagine what kind of voice Scrooge and Gladstone and the Beagle Boys might have had? Nowadays, when I read Simpsons comics, my little brain hears all the voices from the animated tv show. But when I read Disney comics, I hear Scrooge's Scottish accent but I never hear Donald's duck voice. Is Donald's voice so unusual that our imagination doesn't try to re-create it when we read? This is a mystery that possibly only a psychologist could explain!

I "hear" all speaking characters in a monotone "reading voice". But, at least, if the words are spelt differently for young children, and foreign accents, I hear the monotone voice speaking in that accent. That is why I use extremely heavy foreign accents for foreigners, knowing that my editors will cut the "heaviness" (variation from proper spelling) down to the bone. Ha! Ha! You'd have to be a Highlander who speaks "Scots" rather than English with a "Scottish accent" (as most Scots do today) or a reader of Old English from the 9th Century, to understand the dialogues of my Scottish characters if I were to use them in a story. If I had my way, I'd slip in foreign phrases in the foreign languages. But the editors would almost always reject those, and translate them back into Dutch or Danish, or the language of the printing country.

I generally don't 'hear' a character's voice while reading, barring some exceptions.
When I read Hellboy comics I don't hear Ron Perlman's voice as Hellboy, even though I can't imagine any other person playing the character, but, strangely, when I read those same comics I do hear John Hurt's voice for Professor Broom! Weird, huh?

I've tried reading sans voices, but I feel like it is not as immersive of an experience.
I read a lot of non-fiction and history. I can breeze through those. But I always take longer with fiction because I really try and create a movie in my head.

Donald's animated voice is simply too iconic to change without alienating the vast majority of the audience, folks who've never heard of Barks but have known what Donald Duck sounds like since they were two years old.

Quote from user: AngilasmanDonald's animated voice is simply too iconic to change without alienating the vast majority of the audience, folks who've never heard of Barks but have known what Donald Duck sounds like since they were two years old.
This is only true in countries were animated Donald is more famous than comics Donald.