Scottish Acccents, and my "job"...

[lawlwhatshan]

1:00 THATS MY AUNTIE!? WHAT THE HELL?  I DIDNT EVEN KNOW SHE WAS ON YOUTUBE..

[canis582]

That song makes me embarrassed to be a Merkin.

[evareidzz]

im dundonian and i have no idea what they are saying

[mitchellxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Ahhm Dundonian and i hink it's dead easy:L

[mishizzle714]

this makes me so happy

[MsSazz123]

Erm..am english and aa didnt understand aa word of that LOL!! :D



[Kanonite]

@MsSazz123 are you sure because its i am not am!

[MissLadyboy007]

We Scots should all learn Gaelic. What are beautiful and poetic language it is.

[L099Amie]

im scottish but what the fuck are they saying

[iMarc89]

@cybopath Aye, ken. Gin thay think thay can take wir leid, thay dinna ken the Scots fowk. It's aurie time thay startit teachin the Scots leid in the schuils alongside Inglish. Ane's as important as t'other.

[PAGALCOWS]

which language is this? 0.o

[cokerainbows]

@PAGALCOWS oh shut up, idiot

[PAGALCOWS]

@cokerainbows whats wrong?

[cokerainbows]

@PAGALCOWS what language do you think it is?!

[PAGALCOWS]

@cokerainbows dnt know!!! hmmm may b polksi

[raeynah]

@saffibaffi och awa and dinna talk pish! ~xXx~

[NewPaltzIndie]

i watched this video with my fellow american flatmate when we were studying abroad at U Dundee and we both reference it when we try to explain to people how hard it was sometimes to understand what people are saying. It's funny how even though everyone speaks english, once you throw in a dialect it sounds like another language. cant wait to go back for my masters!

[raeynah]

Dundonians are salt of the earth and very warm hearted but not all of them speak like this.

[scotfreak]

we need more videos of this accent I NEED TO LEARN IT!!

[wwedivasrule1]

i come from dundee now if i was saying that to one of my friends i would say.. eh come fae dundee mate, which just means i come from dundee and mate means friend, now if we were going to say yes mum can i have a drink, thanks

it would be eh mum can eh get a drink.. cheers

[gunsnrosesgirl3]

Im half scottish and i can't understand my dad, grandad, ungle, auties half the time lol

[nyamcz]

@gunsnrosesgirl3 lol, are you serious ?

[hunga224]

"Gælic" is from the old north -west language of Scotland,and it literally means ---

Gay=homosexual--and Lich=Language,or, "Local Banter" as it is known in many parts of Glasgow.

[zc642]

@hunga224 Only by ignorant people who don't know it's pronounced like "garlic".

[hunga224]

@zc642 It's now pronounced as "Alba".

[HojoOSanagi]

Scots just sounds like a dialect of middle English and did that women at the end say it's a bra briȝt bedliȝt dyȝt dedyȝt. It's a fine (bra is the Norse word for fine) bright bed-lit(?) night tonight? I have no clue.

[MrHulio1985]

@HojoOSanagi She said "It's a braw bricht moonlicht nicht the nicht" Meaning it's a nice bright moonlit night tonight.

[SantaClausHell]

I need a brolly

[scatmanwfm]

Buckle maxamuckle?!? LOOOOOOOOL I think I just found my new name.

[daveandluke]

Your nuts

[daveandluke]

Quite right

[williamwallacee]

You need to be a chav like lindsay to understand dundonian.

Please stop the slang. you get more respect that way....

[23tobymontgomery]

@williamwallacee i think theres a time an a place for it, in friendly informal situations its great! slang is part of our culture and should be respected

[Yoshemo1]

I don't think that counts as english anymore X3

[williamwallacee]

at 1:21 is that a floooor in yer hair hen lol. i'm from dundee born and bread. But i do NOT speak the slag i do hate it .... its not even real words. please try and talk properly......

[solefthanded2]

@williamwallacee

The Dundee dialect should be outlawed.  And that's from someone born and bred in the city.

[23tobymontgomery]

@solefthanded2 nae luck! lol

[gaylecmful]

hahaha most of my foreign mates wouldn't have a clue what was being said without the subtitles and @OlympicScientist hahaha so true dinnae ken whether to be flattered or insulted that they need subtitles to understand Dundonian

[MiniAndo96]

Omg I was pissing myself when I watched this

[AndrewJimScott]

yes thank you

[Kaylz890]

ah, i'm scottish and i didn't even understand this, aahaha. xD

[AndrewJimScott]

ning ad naw

[RossKempOnYourMum01]

Scumdee... aye want a scotch pey.

[Alphaboo2]

When I lived in Germany, the British understood my American German, I understood the British German but the Germans did not understand either of us.

Blimey!

[OlympicScientist]

Dundee is just one of those places...that if you did a documentary on TV about it, without subtitles, 99.9% of the UK population wouldnt have a clue what was going on. "taysiders in space star trek" spoof is a example of it...if your not from dundee, your gonna miss it completely.

[michaelimk23]

wow! non native speaker suffer from it

[davidiscoolerthanu]

lol im american but damn the scottish accent is awesome!!! i actually learned it from a scottish friend, its alota fun cause i do it perfect now so i can use it whenever i like! hehe =)

[physiogirl85]

hahaha thats brilliant, especially the "braw bricht moonlicht nicht the nicht" one..I'm from Dundee and moved to Edinburgh 2 and a half years ago and agree with what someone said down the page that no matter how politely you speak people always maintain you have a "strong scottish" accent! love it :)

[xTinaReidx]

im from glasgow and i dont think people talk like that ! they wur putting on accents but i think its funny to listen too ! :) are you from scotland ?

[BillDFC]

Eh kent a'thing that wuz bein sayd.

[Focusb4ufire]

i work as a manager in a HBOS call center and im Dundonian... so you can imagine the result when someone down south calls up.

The thing about the Dundee accent is...once you have it, you have it. even if i try to use 'proper' words and a polite tone i still sound dundonian. PS: if you phone HBOS most call centers are on the north east of scotland if you want to call it to see if you can understand :P

[shugeezakiss]

haha i am scottish and i didnt get most of what they were saying, im from outside edinburgh xo

[oXoDAISYoXo]

Is your job an accent decipherer? I want that job!!

[funkrocksock]

Our weather's shite, we have our problems with antisocial behaviour and our Government is piss poor, but Scotland is the best country in the world and I'd call no other place home.

[JustinQuintos]

AHAHA I never realized how bad their accents are!

[pomstar08]

im english and trust me there is nothing hotter than a hot scottish girl with of course a scottish accent. for me its just a massive turn on. and the scottish accent is sooooo cool. love from england (londoner)

[louiseimrie]

excuse me but were not ugly

[jld19brownbomber]

maybe ur not...

[patchandfluff1]

Excuse Me I'm Scottish !

[jld19brownbomber]

and?

[patchandfluff1]

You Said Why Are Scots So Ugly

[jld19brownbomber]

i did yes,ur point being?

[IdlersArtwork]

Pure teckle video like eh.

[SeductionsMuse]

I so love this Vid! I wish I still had a job where I get to meet people from all over. Hell I wish i lived all over so that people would get to meet me and vice versa

[ElGalloDelNorte78]

I think you'll find that Scots is a language not an accent sweetheart, hence lots of different accents all over Scotland. One thing would be if I say "car" and you say "cah" in English, that's a difference in accent. If I say, say "een" and you say "eyes" or "shin" for "shoes" then we're clearly speaking different languages.

[PotatoeSmiley]

Littlemonster is right, Scottish is not a language, its an accent. Words like 'bridies' and 'tatties' are local slang words, but we still use words like pies or potatoes too.

However, Gaelic is a different language spoken in Scotland.

[ElGalloDelNorte78]

A bridie isn't a pie, mate. Scots is a language, older than modern English, and recognised as such as such even by a fucked up entity like the European Union. I say "potato" in English and "tattie" when speaking Scots and "buntàta" when speaking Gaelic and "patata" or "papa" when speaking Spanish and "batata" in Portuguese.

[ElGalloDelNorte78]

All very similar, eh? Are Gaelic, Spanish and Portuguese just English slang aswell? Do you have Gaelic? Are you even Scottish? Mas Albannach thu èirich bho do ghlùintean.

[PotatoeSmiley]

Of course I'm Scottish. Scottish people speak English but have a Scottish accent and slang words (something Ive noticed from living all my life here). Its the same way American people speak English but have an American accents (Americans have slang words like flossing). Spanish, Portuguese are completely different languages, so your reference to them as English slang is void.

Flossing means showing off (according to Ellen)

[ElGalloDelNorte78]

No, around 4 million of us speak some form of Scots on a day to day basis. My point about potatoes was that although words can be similar it doesn't mean the language is the same. I understand as much of Romanian (also a latin-based language) with speaking Spanish as an Englishman would understand me speaking Scots. Guaranteed. If you come from an upper middle class or immigrant family and don't speak Scots you can't judge what most of us learned to speak before we got to school.

[littlemonster333]

what are you on about ElGalloDelNorte78... you're brazilian aren't you? Please don't tell us Scottish people, who LIVE here and were brought up here that Scots is a separate language. We have Gaelic, and that IS a separate language, but Scots is different dialects, slang and accents!! It IS true, I think we would've been told in school if we were speaking another language altogether.

[ElGalloDelNorte78]

Brazilian? A'm as Scoattish luikin as thon Willy oaf ae Thi Simpsons. A bide in Brazil bit A'm fae Perthshire (Whaur ur you fae?) n A ken Dundee wae haein femly thair. Naeb'dy ken's how thi Dundee accent turnit sae different bit some say it hus tae dae wae Yrish immigration or even somehin tae dae wae talkin ower thi soond o thi machinery in thi mills.

[ElGalloDelNorte78]

Ma mither taught us tae read n screeve in Inglish afore A wint tae thi schale bit thae ay gied us a roo n tellt us tae talk "properly", ie Inglish. N Inglish wisnae cried Inglish thae cawed it "Language" as if it wis oor ain. "...I think we would've been told in school.." Aye 'cause thae'r really intae teachin us a loat ae Scoattish history n culture whin wi'r wee eh? Ae week o poems afore Burn's Nicht. Sweethert, if thi tellt us thi half ae it wi wid demand independence thi moarn.

[ElGalloDelNorte78]

Scoats is mair distict fae Inglish as Danish, Norwegian n Swedish ur fae ain anither. A cannae mind wha it wis thit said, "A language is a dialect with an army and navy" Dae a bit ae research n read "The Mither Tongue" bi Billy Kay . "We have Gaelic..." You dinnae hae Gaelic so dinnae gie us it. Ma grannie's generation hud Gaelic n A learnt it agane n it's no jist a seperate language like Scoats, it disnae hae a haet tae dae wae Inglish.

[Cybopath]

@ElGalloDelNorte78

Aye the mare folks sain oor tongue is a dialect o Inglish the mare they kin insense we are a region o Ingland. Keep up the tongue.

[ElGalloDelNorte78]

BTW A liked yir video n A'm soarry if A come acroass a bit aggressive in ma furst comment (n noo n aw) bit thi truth hus tae be telt.

[PaddyMacNasty]

@littlemonster333 Supposedly it technically is a seperate language because although it's most similar to english it has roots in gaelic, norse and french. If our TV and school textbooks and the like weren't all in plain english I reckon we'd have a hard time understanding plain english speakers.

[Cybopath]

@littlemonster333

Scots is not a Dialect of English, no more than Gaelic is a Dialect of Irish. Most of us don't speak either on a day to day basis though. We speak Scots-English which is a dialect which uses 'Scots' words with English. We are taught to read and write in Standard English which varies from our dialect and causes the confusion that we speak slang with accent but words like ken, tae, ben, Bairn, fae, muckle, are from the Scots language and are not slang.

[maggytou]

I love this city and I love the shop you're working in ;)

[GlesgaKnow]

Aw the Dundee lassies I've met have been fucking mental. Gtfo Dundee.

[solefthanded2]

@GlesgaKnow

Weegie skank bastard

[chu1111111]

im fae stirling an i understood everything

its a braw moon licht shicht the nicht is the 1 she wis looking 4 at the end

you dinae have to say these mad phrases to be Scottish tho, where aw Jock Tamsons bairns

[HoltyDUFC1]

Fat ride

[meandmyself83]

Kinda like the laugh at 1.13

[littlemonster333]

I think that was me laughing, if I'm not mistaken.

[anniehiggy]

I have a book from a co-worker to help me achieve the accent...so far it is only making me hungry for tatties and paaaeees...

[ca20277]

Heres one for ya WHOPPER

[BlackCatCadillac]

there's a line in the film "For Love of the Game," from the baseball catcher when he finds his friend the pitcher drank all the little hotel bottles of liquor in the mini bar. he says, "hey Chappy, you know all these little bottles make a big one, right?"

a.k.a. "many a little thing..."

[1800super]

what the hell is jim hutch daein shoutin aboot ben? Eh thought he wiz loked up in liff years ago!

[dbett9802]

lol im from the smallest part of scotland.. nice wee clackmananshire, forgot how to spell it

[nutellajunkie]

did you get your spongebob t-shirt?

[RelentlessVampire]

XD yay nickelback!!!

[jpmetz]

hahahahaha ohhhhhhh my god this is amaze!!

[ChronicProdigy]

Fuck Scumdee!!!!!!

Perth aw the way!!!!!!!!!!!!

[solefthanded2]

@ChronicProdigy

Prodigal Arsehole from a Shitehole

[nickidee15]

Yeah i live in glasgow and my friend is from dundee and sometimes when shes not thinking or is drunk she starts talking like this and im like ohh and nod along. I know some of it though

[666lam666]

Thankfully, this lingo is unique to Scumdee, so please don`t think all Scottish people talk like this.

[steven10messi10]

well id rather stay here ;)

[mcdougalld]

been many of times, much rather stay in aberdeen.

[littlemonster333]

Yeah, I'd rather you stayed there too ;)

[solefthanded2]

@littlemonster333

I'd second that.

[solefthanded2]

@mcdougalld

'many of time'

Have you ever attended school?

[steven10messi10]

lol have you ever been?

[mcdougalld]

scumdee, the people talk as bad as the place

[steven10messi10]

the dundonians ken ?

we are all bra hehe

[DJMight]

That's not an accent, that's a completely different language! lol!

[Azlak0507]

You look really fun to hang about with by the way!

[Azlak0507]

Gies a plen peh in an ingin in anaw!

[siddharth77777]

Oh wow... heading to Scotland for 4 months.... their accent is WOW!

[msjanedoe09]

love the scotish accent great video

[kintakintyea]

Haha!! Verra Gweed!!

[Orelus18]

i'm just 2 months left to go to dundee, and that got me scared, could understand less than 40% ._. eek

[Staffyno1]

Ha ha .... i'm from fife an i don't understand those mad Dundonians, i mean c'mon who asks for an ingininanaw .... lol

[NancyToday]

Were those regular English words just said with a real accent, or their words for stuff? Good video. You're great, I'm subscribing.

[fudge1monkey]

some words and phrases are said differently, for example "umbrella" is "brolly" so an entire phrase can be made by words youve never heard before lol XD

[KN0MAAD]

They say Brolly in Australia too =)

Kewl vid =D

*****

[nickidee15]

Yeah hese people are speaking english but we have like little "code words" i guess u could say . lol!

[19seejay89]

haha awesome vid, im from glasgow..even somethings they were sayin i was like huh? lol

p.s nickelback are awesome! goin to see them at the SECC on  may 23rd!

[sunnyatscot]

im scottish and i just dont get dundee

[Jodhy123]

hahaha if yae wana hear proper scots ya gotta gan aer tae the west coast to the weegies...iv never heard a scot say a sentence wi out at least wan swear word in it hahaaha...Mon the Fifers haha

[xomeghanxox]

By speaking normal i mean i don't realise i speak like that .x

[darknessdaisy]

That was great =) Loved the wee granny! I'm in Dundee too x

[Focusb4ufire]

im from lochee, we seem to have a totally different accent from anywhere else in dundee. i sound more like those people at the start, although i dont use some of the words lol

peh, meh, teh etc is all par though. i say it without even thinking, it is asking alot of me to say a sentance without it.

[xomeghanxox]

I'm from dundee but i dont speak like that... i'm not posh but i speak normal i proberly just not realise it.

[littlemonster333]

That's what's amazing. Dundee is such a small place, but there's a real variety of accents... Just out of interest what is speaking 'normal'? there really is no such thing. X

[churba1]

It was Puckle = little. And Muckle = a lot.

[ROBwithaB]

Many a buckle?

Sorry, I understood fuckle.

Gobbldegook. Gibberish.

"Dundonian"?

Okay.......

Funny old folk, though.

And the ending was (ahem) sooo like RANDOM.

[iamlinzie]

I wanna come and work with you looks fun x

[Shideh8]

that was cooool! :)

[roscopk]

Bravo. That was brilliant.

[littlemonster333]

Thank you very much! X

[Morgancee]

"Taw plen bridies and in iggin ane in ah" that's how you pronouce it and it means "two plain bridies (pies) and a onion one as well".

The second one I couldn't really get because that's really old dundionian and I'm only thirteen.

"Peh, skey, deh,

[littlemonster333]

I have subtitles! lol. X

[Morgancee]

I understood every word! I'm from Dundee!

Morgan xx

[MisterSirKenny]

Yer fae Dundee!

[illuminata01]

So cute...love your video and your hat..

[stuboy19]

im scottish and i have no idea what these teauchters (sp?) are saying

[Paolusmaximus45]

i am scottish and i love the accent, i was once in schotland and well its amazing there. my cousin is the drummer of the fire and i so i recommend you to hear some songs of them and buy the cd!!!! where in scotland do u live???

[girlydisturbed]

lol nice :-P

[mofoexpo]

haha, i love this vid...

the rockstar bit is soo random, haha

im scottish btw...lol

[frosiniv]

that's hilarious. I lied in Glasgow for 13 years and can put the accent on...reminds me of home! :D

[LaughingLeaf]

I see you live around very energetic people :D Awesome video!

[littlemonster333]

why thank you honey!!

[vally1978]

lol- those are some amazing accents, haha!

[tabloidjunk]

This is so funny.. i have absolutely no idea what they are saying!

your accent is a LOT more mild than theirs!

oh and PS - your earlier advice - SOOO helpful and it SOOO worked!

[2bsirius]

Loved this video! I've been in the UK for a while now, and this video captures some of the difficult communication problems. To be fair, UK residents often have an equally difficult time understanding some of my relatives who come from the southern states of the US. This was hilarious!

[HuggableFanatic92]

iv lived in dundee all my life and i don't speak like that

[shweetiepie121]

FUNNY

faved

[BlondeCurlsBlueEyes]

lol that bit with the massive ... er ... thing in your hair was funny! XD 'Rockstar!' I've neva heard Scottish like that before :) I just hear people with the accent!

[littlemonster333]

I think that thing is meant for weddings... I dunno who would wear that to someone else's wedding. You don't wanna upstage the bride!! Yes, this is a very special kind of Scottish! X

[mouimen]

lmfto ಠ_ಠ

[littlemonster333]

haha! Confused? That's what the subtitles are for! lol. X

[jennykts]

um..i love you! btw.. i am an INFJ. pretty close.

[littlemonster333]

oooooh so close! You're an introverted version of me then?? lol. X

[EmLost]

Hmm, I don't talk like that and I'm from Dundee... However I have had NORMAL mic conversation with people and they don't understand me, so I guess it's fair to say we're the least understood city in Britain maybe even Europe.

Peace,

EmLost (Em Meaning I am, By the way)

[Yanaaboo]

wow! thats like a whole nother language not an accent lol

[littlemonster333]

haha, exactly! I've been here for 4 years and I'm still like 'whhhaaat?' Thanks for watching sweetie, love ya! X

[mouimen]

rofl. i like scottish peoples,they r cool and friendly

im algerian

[DavidCasserly]

Looks like fun. Sometimes when I'm down the country I just have to smile and nod when some of the older people speak to me. I have no idea what they're saying

[nightie82]

WHAT,... i did not understand a word of that :D crazy stuff....

[MewMew015]

Hehe.

Your funny!

[sewardsteve]

Great that you enjoy your job, I once spent a whole day sitting in the Renault dealer in Dundee waiting for a car to take me back home!

[littlemonster333]

Is that the one on the River Front? X

[CookieDundee1982]

Oh. I recognise the charity shop in the background of some of this video. used to live above it :D

[CherryBullet4]

wow, I would not last a day in Dundee,lol. Plus I'm deaf in my right ear so I'd probably be like "Huh?" all day,lol.

[JaffaSam]

hehehe Loveee it!! Looks more fun than my job! haha

[saujiM]

Cam what i mean?

I want big bek dundonian tities!

[littlemonster333]

say whaat?