Woody Guthrie docked in Glasgow during wartime when he was in the Merchant Marine. He wrote home, "The people don't talk here. They sing to each other"

@shespeakssoftly

Жыл бұрын

:’) 🤍

@raoulduke344

Жыл бұрын

Nice profile pic

@shespeakssoftly

Жыл бұрын

@@raoulduke344 thank you! It’s from a painting by Romaine Brooks.

@krashd

Жыл бұрын

@@shespeakssoftly Why are you thanking him?

@shespeakssoftly

Жыл бұрын

@@krashd He told me he liked the painting I have set as my profile photo. I wanted to share its name in case he was interested in looking it up

It is not said enough, but Billy is a very intelligent guy.

My dad was from Bridgeton, Glasgow and my best mate is from Edinburgh. Very different accents, yet they both enjoyed a joke at us English. So they do have something in common 😆

@rogueuniversities6866

Жыл бұрын

Yet they can't even speak English

@Kopesy

Жыл бұрын

Joke's on them, brother ;)

@joannaedssay5988

Жыл бұрын

@@rogueuniversities6866 and @Kope bitter much?

@rogueuniversities6866

Жыл бұрын

@@joannaedssay5988 No, you?

@rjjcms1

Жыл бұрын

My brother-in-law's mum grew up in Aberdeenshire (having spent the first few years of her life in Ecuador!),and she spoke with a really clear accent that was easy for us Sassenachs to understand. It was unmistakably Scottish,even after half a century of living in the south of England,but a world away from some of the more impenetrable (to us) Glasgow accents. We loved watching and listening to Billy Connolly from the moment we first saw him on television in about the spring of 1975 if I remember rightly,in an interview on Parkinson and when he was doing his stand-up,and we never had the slightest difficulty understanding what he was saying.

Billy Connolly has such a distinct voice

@danw1374

6 ай бұрын

I remember Billy saying he grew up in Partick in Glasgow.

@br-jj6re

2 ай бұрын

@@danw1374that’s because… he did?

every region of scotland has a different tongue of language and i love it. thats what makes scotland great

@BadgerBotherer1

Жыл бұрын

So does Wales and England and probably every other country!

@carlworrall

Жыл бұрын

@@BadgerBotherer1 that is my point

@carlworrall

Жыл бұрын

@@BadgerBotherer1 agreed i never said otherwise

@joedwyer3297

Жыл бұрын

@joe blogs you mustve mist the comments directly above yours

@sratus

Жыл бұрын

@@carlworrall What exactly is your point Carl?

Why didn’t they interview any of the many, many thousands of working class people in Edinburgh?

@anonman3707

Жыл бұрын

yep. BBC as usual "Oh those rough Scotch in the terraces of Glasgow"

@Mhor_Al

Жыл бұрын

Cos there is nae "wurkin class" in edinburger! 😏🤣 nae peace wi the East!!! 😇🤣🤣🤣

@semperterra3235

Жыл бұрын

They didn't interview the "many, many thousands of working class people in Edinburgh" for the same reason they didn't interview the thousands of bourgeois Glaswegians in Kelvinside and Dowanhill, because they needed to keep things simple in order to produce a short piece of film.

@SpicyRikers

Жыл бұрын

@@semperterra3235 Aye but they only used wee posh guys as an example of an edinburgh accent, i mean they missed alot fs, do you think they posh guys sound anything like the accents in trainspotting?

@Tazza81

Жыл бұрын

Because they interviewed those from the majority. Yes, Edinburgh has working class people but the majority of people who live in Edinburgh (even back in 1976) are middle class and vice versa for Glasgow.

I just love listening to the Scottish. There's something so warm about their accents and dialects.

I love the Scots. Great accents and sense of humour, and tough as nails.

Bill Connolly was the original aquaman.

This is brilliant. I live in England now. My accent is pretty standard Morningside and one my best friends down here is very Glasgwegian. It’s brilliant when the locals say “you’re both Scottish but you sound different!” 😂.

@papapiers1588

Жыл бұрын

Ok… and why is it brilliant? Manchester people don’t sound like people from Birmingham. People from Yorkshire don’t sound like people from Cornwall. They are all from England. Is that brilliant too? Do you ever get out?

@duncanbick6732

Жыл бұрын

I enjoyed a report from 1976 which reminds me of my experience in the present day, I consider the experience brilliant. Scottish accents aren’t as widely discussed as English accents so it’s nice to see a report which does this. I go out plenty, often with my Glasgwegian mate.

@johncurrie6693

Жыл бұрын

@@papapiers1588 sounds like your the one who doesn't get out. Why the aggression.

@MultiOpolis

Жыл бұрын

@@papapiers1588 sounds like you need to get out

@gaycha6589

Жыл бұрын

@@papapiers1588 It's good not lumping everyone from one country together. They can be and often are, different in manner, word, outlook and deed! It to be celebrated

My Grandmother and her best friend had proper middle-class Edinburgh accents and sounded exactly like Sadie Aitken. My Grandfather was more working class and sounded like Sean Connery without the lisp. Was pretty funny when they had an argument.

Wasn’t it nice to get a wee quick snapshot of the houses next to celtic park , all demolished now , and getting to eavesdrop on their conversations before going in.

Morningside: All fur coat and no knickers, even us in Edinburgh use this expression lol.

I can understand Billy Connolly a lot easier than Kevin Bridges.

@joannaedssay5988

Жыл бұрын

Depends what part of Glasgow you were brought up in that affects the strength of your accent. Plus KB keeps his accent strong when he is doing home gigs as most folk do understand him or get the gist of it atleast. When he is away on tour he waters down his accent a lot.

Thank goodness for closed captioning

@20thCenturyPox

Жыл бұрын

Daft racist. If you can't understand every single person in this video you must be thick.

I've lived in Edinburgh for 50 years, and never heard an accent like the one on here 😳

@fioredeutchmark

Жыл бұрын

You’ve never been to court I take it…

@philipknight3270

Жыл бұрын

@@fioredeutchmark ha ha...all rise

@joannaedssay5988

Жыл бұрын

I am Edinburgh born and bred and I agree that the "Edinburgh accent" represented in this video is not representative of the actual Edinburgh accent.

@leeriches8841

Жыл бұрын

@@joannaedssay5988 haha, I used to have that Edinburgh accent- I grew up in Morningside and went to school there! It’s really wearing off now luckily.

@baronmeduse

Жыл бұрын

@@joannaedssay5988 The video is after all 46 years old.

Brilliant!!!

Surprised they didn't just interview a few of the Hearts fans. They would have got a few 'working class Edinburgh accents'. Having lived in Midlothian for all my life, I have rarely heard the stereotypical 'Morningside accent', so for it to be pitted against the working-class Glasgow accents in strange. The majority of the population of Edinburgh live in the outskirts or suburban towns around the city. Most of these areas are historically working-class, with the outskirt areas being places for masses of people to live, and the towns being historical areas with industries like mining and fishing providing employment for working class people. All these areas have distinct accents and, in my opinion are the true Edinburgh accents. Go to Pilton, Liberton, Craigmillar, Dalkeith or Musselburgh, and you'll find that the majority of accents are just as 'broad' as those Glasgow accents, but completely different.

There is a lot of wealth in both cities and a lot of poverty. It’s the fools or politicians that try and divide us.

The kid asking for a lift over the turnstiles good old days

@duncanmcewan1024

Жыл бұрын

Into Hampden ower the turnstile age 5 1948!

@ewanmacfarlane9195

Жыл бұрын

Class mate must of been a big crowd

Billy C has the best voice, accent!

Billy Connolly and Sean Connery are iconic Glasgow and Edinburgh representatives, although from their surnames, I'd guess both are of Irish descent!

@Eire_Go_Deo

6 күн бұрын

I know Sean had Irish blood on his Father's side for sure. Sean even referred to his father as an "Irish Tinker" in an 80s interview with Barbara Walters. As an Irishman myself who loves the Scots, I always makes me proud when I find out great Scots have some Irish blood

Most glaswegians can speak the queens english ......tho we mostly choose not tae bother our arse😂

As a Londoner I liked the phrase 'Nae tea leafing', it reminded me of the cockney rhyming slang term 'tea leaf' for 'thief' and I'm guessing the meaning is the same. Maybe we are all more alike than we thought.

@jennifergirling6850

Жыл бұрын

Celtic influence maybe!

@hrvsmart

Жыл бұрын

Yes you're right it means the same

@synthdude

Жыл бұрын

I think it's part of the "10 Commandments" at 2:28

@kevinruddy448

Жыл бұрын

It's no joke, being a jock 😒?, if ya ken ma meaning 😯?

I used to have the Edinburgh Morningside accent as that is where I literally grew up. It’s been wearing off over the last few decades (luckily- nobody likes a toff lol)

I'm the product of a mixed marriage-my dad is from Morningside Edinburgh,my mum from Garrowhill Glasgow.I spend about the same amount of time in both places and my accent changes according to where I am.

4:21 "That's ma wee bra". Now that's Glasgow

@papapiers1588

Жыл бұрын

It might be your glesga but it’s not my Glasgow. Slang and bam talk is not a sign of Glasgow… it’s a sign of … bam slang

@viewer.123

Жыл бұрын

Papa Piers How's it bam talk?

@McCann22

Жыл бұрын

@@papapiers1588 it is Glesga talk thats not even ned talk thats Glaswegian ya numpty

My ancestors came from anywhere from Roxbourgh to the highlands then down the west coast then over to the east coast from Aaberdeen to Edinburgh.

Damn at the beginning I was like that dude looks just like Billy Connolly

A Glaswegian would never say “I dinnae ken” unless they were in Wishaw.

@IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou

Жыл бұрын

‘no true Scotsman…’

@krashd

Жыл бұрын

@@IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou No true Scotsman would speak Doric? That's good to ken, I must be English then for speaking an actual Scottish dialect instead of your Queen's English.

@stoobie94

Жыл бұрын

@@IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou Not quite. "Ken" isn't in the words that Glaswegians tend to say. "Ken" is part of certain dialects. Glaswegian isn't one of then

@wishawweather5421

Жыл бұрын

The cross over point is the village of Cleland just outside Wishaw. Where toon becomes town, doon becomes down and know becomes ken.

@krashd

Жыл бұрын

@@stoobie94 No, his point was that "no true Scotsman" would say "I dinnae ken", meaning that he is a prat who doesn't know a thing about the various dialects of our country. I'd bet my life savings he's a London-worshipping Rangers supporter.

Check out the great Stanley Baxter's "Parliamo Glasgow" videos. Absolutely pure gold.

Great t-shirt by the way. Mick Ronson!!

That vicar going to the celtic v hearts match looks like he could be Grant Morrisons dad.

Glasgow people don't say,"I dinna ken"!🤣😂

I knew that was Billy Connolly as soon as I heard his voice. Didn't even recognize him but I knew that was Billy.

damn, young billy 😂

8:24 Glaswegians don't use the word "ken" ("know"), it's one way to tell them apart from Fifers or those from Edinburgh or even Ayrshire who do all use the word.

Isn't many of the Scottish people, descendants of Norwegian voyagers (vikingrs)??

Planning to rewatch in hopes of understanding a single spoken word.

@joannaedssay5988

Жыл бұрын

Put on subtitles, that will really give you a laugh.

1:54 you wouldn't want to mess with that vicar, looks like one of the Mob undercover.

Wester hailes, sighthill and other areas on the outskirts of edinburgh having working class folk that live there and some of there accents can be a lot stronger then glasow accent.

What's the number plate on the blue Ford (Cortina? Taunus?). Northern Irish? It's 4 numbers 2 letters "2788 ZL" I think.

The ironic thing is that none of Glaswegians in the vid going on about being working class actually talk like normal everyday Glaswegians. They're putting on the "pan loaf" voice. Billy Connolly has never sounded like a "proper Glaswegian" to me, even though he is one. Great comedian though.

@lauramcquade924

Жыл бұрын

Aye, but remember that Billy Connolly is a totally different generation of Glaswegian. My grandad says that, he and Billy are roughly the same age. Modern day working class Glaswegians, I honestly cannot understand. I don't mean that in a bad way but it's so thick I just can't hear the English they are speaking.

@raoulduke344

Жыл бұрын

@@lauramcquade924 No offence taken. I've got a really thick accent a d when I see people faxes just gloss over, I realise they can't understand me and I adjust appropriately.

Tee shirt graphics have come a long way.

The guy playing pool is an actor, right?? He’s been in recent films but I can’t place him. Wait! Wasn’t he a ghost in Harry Potter?!? Edit: ok found out it’s Billy Connolly. He’s fun.

That bizzare accent Kevin Bridges always takes the piss out of is something that wasn't really there 30 years ago.

I'm from Greenock when growing up me and my brother thought my great ant and uncle who live Edinburgh were English because how proper they speak we would be given into trouble for specking scots, is there a Greenock accent i can tell someone form port glasgow by there accent

It depends where in Edinburgh you're from!

Someone show this to Limmy

@craighicksartwork

Жыл бұрын

Haha I thought that very thing too

Will ye go lassie go And we`ll all go together

Billy Connolly was so young then!

@williamdonnelly8532

Жыл бұрын

Have a 💓 heart,Hart.So were we!😀

@delilahhart4398

Жыл бұрын

@@williamdonnelly8532 Yes, you were. 😊💟

Every body has an accent. What can be deemed a 'nice accent' is highly prescriptive :)

HELP HELP HELP - Does anyone know the poem read by Tom Leonard here? - 2:28 Scoured the Googles and cannot find it anywhere...

I grew up in East Kilbride. We definitely did have an accent … I’m not so sure anymore. I now live in Kirkintilloch and it’s a harsher Glasgow accent so within a few miles accents can change 😂

@standenberg

Жыл бұрын

I love it...Kirkintilloch sounds the most Scottish place-name ever 😁 even I sound Scottish when I say it (& I’m originally from South Africa)...but the Scots accent is the best ever IMO

@JohnSmith-nx2bl

Жыл бұрын

Kirkintilloch just has a normal Glasgow accent. It’s when you get to Falkirk it changes.

@gingerfellah5665

2 ай бұрын

@@JohnSmith-nx2blIt definitely changes in Falkirk but it actually changes in Croy. When I moved to Lenzie (very close to Kirkie) I picked up the accent, the dialect the lot. It was very distinctive, a sing song accent but I guess over the years it has become more Glasgow generic.

I came here thinking we'd finally get to hear those working class east coast accents and how they actually sound so different to the west coast. But English TV presenters never seem interested in this

@jamolotl

Жыл бұрын

Yup, none of that was how normal Edinburgh folk speak, it was all pretty upper class.

@DSQueenie

3 ай бұрын

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie really warped peoples view of the Edinburgh accent.

M8, accents now 🤯

What do you know, Billy ended up with the kelvin side Westend of Glasgow accent

@papapiers1588

Жыл бұрын

He did… to be fair

@acksawblack

Ай бұрын

He went to school in partick so makes sense

@sookmajoaby

Ай бұрын

Partick boys didn't speak with wanky West end accents 50 years ago It came about after the gentrification of the area.

I always thought Billy's aren't became more Aberdeen the older he got.

@K_-_-_-_K

Жыл бұрын

mon the dorich

@krashd

Жыл бұрын

@@K_-_-_-_K Fit like?

If you got Scottish accent and come to America All people will look at you lije Youre special

Glasgow and Edinburgh are about 45 miles apart (city center to city center)... To those of us in the US, the idea that you could have two noticeably different accents by traveling that short of a distance is absurd... Where I live, 45 miles is about half way across town and driving the entire length of the country would not even put me out of my home state, much less encounter a significantly different accent...

@yootaobe5536

Жыл бұрын

Its like this across the UK with accents changing noticeably between short distances. I wonder why its like this in the UK but not as significant elsewhere?

@Support-your-local-team

Жыл бұрын

@@yootaobe5536 It is like that in most countries. It maybe doesn't feel like that to us because it's not the case in the US, Canada and Australia for some reason.

@atomictraveller

Жыл бұрын

we moved to arizona in 1980. i remember before that, noticing when people were from the next county by their accents.

@joannaedssay5988

Жыл бұрын

I think some Glasgow accents are Irish influenced quite a bit. I might be wrong, I don't live in Glasgow I'm in Edinburgh. I only think this as some of the west coast accents have an Irish twang, to my ear anyway.

@baronmeduse

Жыл бұрын

@@joannaedssay5988 Absolutely, there was a huge migration from Ireland a very long time ago. After the Romans Dál Riata comprised south-west Scotland and what is now Northern Ireland. Specific language similarities between the both. When that fellow in the video with the dark shirt is giving examples of 'top of the league' the third one is very 'Irish'.

The big question about the difference between the two accents is 'Where does the glottal stop?'... presumably somewhere around Harthill: So what happens there?

Nay nookie huntin' nextdoor, nor covetin' her Ox. 😂

The Edinburgh accent just makes me think of Maggie Smith in Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 😂

6:28~7:13

Classic "real" Edinburgh accent: Norman MacCaig - kzread.info/dash/bejne/nnmM09mDZ5OfqLA.html

Is it comparing like with like though? They Glasgow people on this are all working class and the Edinburgh people are all middle class. It would be interesting to hear someone more lower class from Edinburgh.

@djedd23

2 ай бұрын

They actually show a posh Glasgow accent from Kelvinside just before they switch over to Edinburgh. But yeah they should have shown more working class Edinburgh accents.

@acksawblack

Ай бұрын

Feel like I’m going mad, only people in the video with a working class glasgow accent are the few snippets at the football. The rest are all either academics or professionals speaking with a broad glasgow accent. Don’t know what you mean like for like?

My head's hurting fter watching this.

Parents from just outside Glasgow. I was raised in Leicester. I’ve got the weirdest accent. Most ppl think I’m from Yorkshire or Manchester 😂

Oh! Bring back Rab C Nesbitt... So brilliant...

@haraldtheyounger5504

9 күн бұрын

Have you seen any of Scot Squad, had me on the floor splitting my sides.

@lynnalborough9672

9 күн бұрын

@@haraldtheyounger5504 .. no. Is he the same as Rab?

@haraldtheyounger5504

9 күн бұрын

@@lynnalborough9672 Based on policing in Scotland and the characters they have to deal with on a daily basis. There are episodes on KZread.

@lynnalborough9672

9 күн бұрын

@@haraldtheyounger5504 .thank you .

Scottish accent overall is one of the best accent ever

Edinburgh south and Edinburgh north have two different accents . And they haven't got the same accent as central Edinburgh . I am south and I might be typing in English but you would probably say that I am Glaswegian as the area of Edinburgh the souths accent is made up of Irish Glaswegian and travelling community . As well as borders and fife . we could have our own dictionary and I speak the same accent as king James the 3rd . Barry fir yer naggins . Good for you . Ah ken whit yeh mean gadgie . I know what you mean my friend . used to go out with a lassie from Manchester . What a hoot ,, God knows If we ever understood each other lol

How do you understand it?) Eleven lift😀

I attended a training course in Glasgow and the minute the Edinburgh delegate discovered I was from Glasgow he blanked me.

Glesga - More than a dash of gallus swagger with a slight undertone of imminent danger. Edinburgh - All fur coat and no nickers.

@ChesterPerry187

Жыл бұрын

CCS

2:28 The 10 Commandments...?

Limmy should watch this

What pool hall is that

Bet I can tops yes all: My dad's from Dundee...

on which planet are these cities and dielects to find? I need go there.

Billy Connolly.

Sure I heard a Mrs Doubtfire in there somewhere...

@gingerfellah5665

2 ай бұрын

Robin Williams used Bill Forsyth’s accent for inspiration.

❤️❤️❤️

Billy Connolly sounds EXACTLY the same as when he made this video. lol

" “Choose life.Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a f**king big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance."

We left Scotland in 1967 and I went back in 1982 and didn't notice any change in accents. I didn't go back again till 2017 and I thought the accents people had were different than what they had been 35+ years before. They seemed somehow softer and more "Americanized." I notice people throughout the UK now use a lot more "American" words than they used to. Probably the internet.

@hughjass8430

10 ай бұрын

It is the Internet. I'm in Ireland and the phenomenon of young kids with mid Atlantic Americanized accents is very real. It's all the KZread they watch. Very odd.

The guy at 8:36 sounds almost like the Glaswegian actor Gordon Jackson (The Great Escape, The Professionals). Listen here: vuxo2HcGoz0

There’s far more accents in Scotland than these two, though 😂 The boy at 2.44 (approx) sounds more Dundonian than Glaswegian, tbh.

❤

Accent in Scotland changes just a 30 minute drive away

@JM-hc1pf

Жыл бұрын

Accents in England can change just a couple of miles away. People in Aldridge just 2 miles out from Walsall town centre sound like Brummies whilst Walsall folks sound Black country.

@joedwyer3297

Жыл бұрын

@@JM-hc1pf thats the same accent

@JM-hc1pf

Жыл бұрын

@@joedwyer3297 black country and Brummie is NOT the same accent lol

It takes some of the heat off us English though 😂

Oki-dokee

Never knew Jason Momoa was Scottish.

@QiaoKeKit

Жыл бұрын

I thought I was the only one who saw it hahahaha

Feel like could have done with some Mounty Python in there

My feeling is that the Glasgow accent is scots mixed with a Donegal accent and in Edinburgh it's scots mixed with received pronunciation

@alicemilne1444

Жыл бұрын

There are many different Glasgow accents. There is a large Irish influence, but there is also a huge Highlander/Gaelic influence as well. Regarding Edinburgh, all you heard here were two people speaking "pan loafy" (posh) accents. There are many working class accents in Edinburgh as well. They were just not represented here at all.

@trebleking1641

Жыл бұрын

The influences on the Glasgow accent are mainly from Lanarkshire, Ayrshire and the Highlands.

@gingerfellah5665

2 ай бұрын

I read that at one time 18 different dialects could be recorded in Glasgow.

Edinburgh accent is like if Greeks, Italians spoke English at their best and Glasgow accent is like literally a different language.

Am yer das da,set rite aboot ye come ahead ya dafty,glesga language

What's the poem I'm your gaffa's gaffa?

I'm a terrible Sassenach, but I have to say that the posh Edinburgh accent has more than a touch of the poshest English accent. They could be naturally occurring. Just saying.

We always live rent free in Glaswegians heads

Glaswegians think they are the most Scottish people in the country, until they meet someone that’s not from Edinburgh. Billy’s got a point about the weddings, they do have the slosh!