Scottish English - Billy Connolly

This series was assembled by Pieter Groenendijk, student at the University of Sussex, for the course 'Practice of New Developments in Digital Media'.

In the project 'Global Dialects of the English Language', I attempt to map the journey of the English language throughout history, and the world.
This assemblage yields the following genuine dialects of English:

English English - Hugh Grant
Scottish English - Billy Connolly
Irish English - Dara O'Briain
New York English - Woody Allen
Welsh English - Joanna Page
Australian English - Steve Irwin
New Zealand English - Flight of the Conchords
South African English - Casper de Vries
Hong Kong English - Jackie Chan
Jamaican English - Bob Marley

Every viewer is encouraged to add their own real accents and comments.

The project map will be uploaded on:
http://www.pietergroenendijk.com/dialect_project/

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Education

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• Pieter Groenendijk
• Global
• Dialects
• Dialect
• Accent
• World
• Accents
• English
• British
• Scotland
• Scottish
• Billy Connolly

[kargwain187]

@hairyscotsman2 the highlands where traditionally gaelic peoples.

[hairyscotsman2]

The Glaswegian accent has become the most familiar accent of Scotland. The person in the example played his part in making it famous. Then there's Aberdeenshire and Edinburgh. The accents in the highlands are different again. People in the far north of Scotland get confused with the Irish, even by Scots lowlanders, possibly due to the mutual viking influence.

[paulscott2410]

Glasweigans in general are hard to understand, even for Geordies I think, they speak so fast and they have their own slang too! I like northern and Scottish accents far better than down south (apart from Devon/Cornwall/Bristol way, funny accents)