The majority of Scottish people make an effort to be understood by others, as we're mostly all aware how difficult it can be to understand our accents. I personally drop into a special "understandable" accent when I'm with anyone from another country. Not patronising, just a bit slower and more pronounced. I won't flatten my vowels, though! ;)

@Sylkenwolf

6 жыл бұрын

Billy Sangster I have Scottish pals and they say sometimes they don't understand themselves. Lol! I know most of these, only one was nae familiar wi' was 'pooch' for pocket. Ha! I love the Doric accent!

@robokill387

3 жыл бұрын

@@gr1tzlyso299 Except this is an Aberdeenshire accent, not a Glasgwegian one.

@funny_money_ad_infinitum

2 жыл бұрын

I am non-native English speaker. I visited Peterhead on the northern coast during my round trip ... a brutal accent for me to understand but so nice people living there.

@janetmackinnon3411

2 жыл бұрын

@@robokill387 Or any of the other accents...

@shorttbone4193

Жыл бұрын

I found that when I was living there (Aberdeen, yes for the University) people really take pity on you especially if English isn’t your first language. The only thing I found people had a low tolerance for was Americans really 😅 Not as bad for me I don’t think but my male American friends complained quite a bit that people weren’t nice to them, but I feel safe to assume they were either asking for it or steamin

lmao, his expressions when he said the words like they surprised even him

Thanks for this video. My father was a Torry loon from a long line of fisher-folk and he used to put an ee sound at the end of everything.

wow a lot of these words sounded danish. like when you said more (mere in danish), most (mest, now (Nu), hour ( ur (which means clock), today (i dag) tomorrow ( i morgen), one (en), child (barn), stones (sten) and had to stop the video i thought you were speaking danish. they word for a child in danish is Barn (but you pronounced the R a bit more) I guess the reason behind these similarities is because of the vikings that invaded the northern u.k. hundreds of years ago. btw great video:)

@Sara-kq8qb

8 жыл бұрын

also the way you say crying ( question 8) and question 11. sur face. Sur means grumpy. there are probably also other examples

@NaeMuckle

8 жыл бұрын

we say Driech for terrible weather, I think the Norwegians sat dreet.

@dergrammarfuhrer1901

8 жыл бұрын

Yeah we have a lot of words that descend from old Norse and have equivalents in modern Nordic languages, we also say reek for smoke (Edinburgh is known as "auld reekie", or old smoky) which is cognate with the Icelandic reykja (Reykjavik means bay of smoke) and Swedish ryka, and moving house is known as flitting, cognate with the Swedish flytta and Danish flytte

@GideonCyn

8 жыл бұрын

Ats affa rare, didna caine we wir spiking like eh danish.

@rcr76

6 жыл бұрын

deity 93 coyr min

Man, this is brilliant. I'm writing a character from Aberdeen, and I've always wanted to give the accent an accurate portrayal. I'm gonna be referring to this a lot! Thanks!

@BillySangster

6 жыл бұрын

Nae problemo, amigo. If you get stuck with any words or whatever, just gies a shout. :)

@bazzaboy1100

5 жыл бұрын

ANOTHER RESOURCE IS LEARN DORIC SCOTS, THE MAN HAS A VOICE LIKE HONEY AND A VERY DRY SENSE OF HUMOUR, MIGHT NOT TRANSLATE BUT AT TIMES VERY FUNNYoops, sorry for shouting

alwaz wanted to learn Doric biut could not even when i was in aberdeen. gud to learn something from this video. Thanks for sharing

A wasp cam crawlin up ma leg in the middle o the psalms ! And never again will I gang oot wi oot ma nicky tams !

I just love listening to this!

Wrong with the 'Someone who dresses like a mess' though ........ in Aberdeen that would be 'a ticket'🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I'll probably move to Aberdeen in the near future, but after this... I think I'll be taking antidepressants very soon if I do

I think a lot of the Scandinavian countries have a similar gutteral quality to their accents. :)

@orCane

Жыл бұрын

There were also many straight up Scandinavian (rather than Saxon) pronunciations of germanic words in there.

this is very interesting for me..I have a west Cornwall accent...glad we are not alone with this type of social problem ie "what's he talking about"

Thanks man! i learned a lot from you guys.

Ah, this is brilliant! I'm Aberdonian (Torry!) but moved away from there a good few years ago. This make me feel like I'm back at home!

Crazy how tomorrow sounds exactly like the danish word(s) for the same thing.

FARTSACK!!! That's hilarious and accurate!

Cool video mate

After a while in my head it went from english words to pictish language. That was trippy.

I miss that accent. Took me ages to understand it when I first moved up. Some old guy spoke to for 20 mins and I dinnae hae a clue!!!

@joshcorbett4787

3 жыл бұрын

It would be didnae not dinnae in that sentence.

The funniest thing - just before I opened this video, I also took a sip of Grants Whisky...

I have a trip planned to Aberdeen at the beginning of October... and now I'm scared... lol but I still think it'll be pretty fun. Maybe my fav sentence will be "could you write it for me please?" O_o' Thanks for this video I had a good time!

Good job billy :)

Billy, didna realise it till a watched yir vid' bit a think am bilingual.

Watch this with CC turned on!

I’ve just realised it’s the same boy! Ffs, I’m from the north east and this makes perfect sense. I’m also well on the way to being pished ( drunk )

More like germanic language for me, I know a little bit german so many vocab that he said have similarity to german

Thanks Scott, it was a real laugh making it (even though it was only me there laughing, haha). Learnt quite a few things there, so hopefully I'll make an even better job if I do another one (I forgot the shot of the professor from the back, missed out a couple of me from the back, overlapped a bit on the cropped bit sometimes and I should have put a bit more time into it and colour-corrected it a bit better.). Good fun though! Thanks for the challenge! :)

Hav ye got any link to natural aberdeen movie ? Im keen t learn more about doric accent .

@BillySangster

5 жыл бұрын

Try this: kzread.info/dash/bejne/qGyCxKqSpM_Hg5s.html :)

I'm from the North East part of Scotland, Peterhead originally.

hahahahahaha that I wasn't expecting, absolute brilliant :) I see you mastered Monochrome lol superb :) and a good few of those words I had never heard before which is quality :) and aye, love the accent Billy, well made video :)

does that gutteral stop resemble that in Danish? cuz he pronounces the words in a quite Danish way, even Barn sounds similar in Danish.

Hahaha wen a wis watchin this a wis sitten there cumin up wi the words how ti say it proper and got a migrane to the extreme. That wiz fun bit a dinnae like it when er people who arny scottish try ti dae it frys Ma nut lol

Aye us Doric accents are rough 😂 when I moved to Stirling they hadn't a clue what I was saying lol also someone who is crying can be peeking too

@jamesmacgregor4624

7 жыл бұрын

Teethgrinder 83 Hinna got a scooby doo fit we're on aboot min

@CohenMore

3 жыл бұрын

Aye I Ken tell ma about it I go tae grammar school (high school) and half o the folk there are English folk that moved here and they dinna hae a clue fit am saying and I'm like well you decided tae move here at least tak the time tae learn fit the words mean and their pronunciation because maste o them are posh like the royal femily so they hivna got a clue and even glaswegian folk sometimes Dinna Ken fit we are sayin

When he said ‘tell me your word for someone who’s dirty’, you missed your chance to say ‘A Dundonian’! 😂

@BillySangster

Жыл бұрын

😆😆

The only 2 Hasidic Celts in Scotland lol.

cannot belive this isnt a more pop channel

Sounds ideal billy, Art shops are good for that. I know one that was in town, Miller's, no sure if it's still there though. And I get what you mean in terms of hair, it's like that when I edit to cut out in Photoshop with certain images. And yeah lol I think that's what I'd probably use myself, standard lights if I could lol

I just did this one with keeping the camera exactly in one position on the tripod, doing both bits, then you layer one on top of the other and crop the top one halfway, so you can see the bottom one underneath. I was playing with green screen last week, it's great if you can get it to work properly (with the lighting and that).

I am English studant. This is to me quit interesting

Aye, I got some thin green cardboard from a craft shop and stuck it on a wall. The chroma key in Final Cut Pro X is pretty good, although with hair like mine it's difficult to get it really great. I was standing there surrounded by standard lights, bedside-table lights, anything I could find!

haha video was superb and very well made :) and I honestly never noticed any mistakes or that, very well made lol I think it's done through Chroma Key or something, I'd love one of those green screens to have a white background in my videos, pretty smart :)

I say stone as stain

I am Scottish

Don't worry about it, papprolle! The majority of Scottish people will talk slowly enough so you can understand. Hope you have a great time when you come over. :)

WOAH I just realised. Is this really only one guy???

@BillySangster

4 жыл бұрын

Sure is. 😂

when he said يلا, at 1:11 i felt that

Doric is the hardest Scots dialect. Maybe cos its further away?

@BillySangster

Жыл бұрын

You could well be right. It’s quite a rhythmic dialect and I wonder if that’s the reason people who speak it start talking quite fast, making it difficult for others who can’t quite get the lilt of it yet.

mental that, I use some of those slang terms as well (backie/seatie, minging) an am from Liverpool, my Irish bf thinks am nuts when I say seatie haha

That was class min, this is the first Doric version of a Scotts accent test i've seen i thought I was going tae have tae do one myself you've saved me the bother

I love this, it's such a unique language and accent but I find comfort in it. My great grandparents were Doric. I never met them and was raised in Inverness (as was my mum) but some of the Doric has been passed down. There's phrases or pronunciations my mum and I use which I never realised were Doric. Funny though, it's did't give us much of an advantage we've both lived in Aberdeen at different points in our lives and struggled a lot with the lingo. My accent is a bit muddled, influenced by Invernesian, Doric and Skye. I thought I sounded very Sneckie but I've been asked a few times if I'm from Aberdeen.

@BillySangster

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the kind words! My Doric is fairly watered down now, having moved from Peterhead to Aberdeen quite a while back. It's a disappearing dialect, unfortunately. 😔

@meepmeep2111

4 жыл бұрын

@@BillySangster It is, I noticed there weren't many in Aberdeen that were still so broad. The outskirts have held onto it a bit more but I suppose Aberdeen is such a multi-cultural place now that, just like you and me, people had to adapt to be understood. I love the giggles when you are saying two different words the exact same way. XD

I am living in scotland for 11 years and love this place and people. As a foreign here it maybe sound strange but when English start talk to me I usually need help of my colleagues to understand what they saying. Your way of saying words are very clear, you say all the words when on the other hand English talk like they will eat half of the word..... basically they English is shite

I was reading Logan McRae novels and there were instances where Logan pin pointed a Banff accent , a Peterhead accent and an Aberdeen accent I understand the Aberdeen city vs Aberdeen Shire accent difference but Banff vs Peterhead? So, Within Aberdeen Shire are there accent variations from East to West and North to South ? because Aberdeenshire is a huge county

@BillySangster

4 жыл бұрын

There are subtle differences, but it would take a better ear than mine to pick them up. I used to notice them when younger, going to the Buchan Technical College, where students from all around the 'shire would combine.

@janetmackinnon3411

2 жыл бұрын

I first went to Aberdeen having been coached by folk from the surrounding countryside---places like Urquart. Phrases like "ma spunkies is aa deen" tripped off my tongue. But the wifie who helped my first landlady spoke pure Aiberdeen, and I could understandabour one sentence in four!

I love it!!!! So do Northern Californians have an accent to you?

@BillySangster

10 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Serena! I don't know if I could pick out a specific state, or an area of a state, but I can tell the obvious different parts of the US ie, Southern drawl, deep south, East coast etc.

@serenas9481

10 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your reply! Scots are awesome!

@brentwoodbay

6 жыл бұрын

I know I'm very late to the party, but EVERYONE has an accent. There is NO such thing as NO accent. As a Welshman now living in Canada, I would think that you would have an American accent to me, but only after you said a few distinctive words like 'out' 'about' and 'house' as to me, these words by an American sound almost like how a Cockney would say them. Otherwise the accent sounds quite similar to Western Canada.

@Sylkenwolf

6 жыл бұрын

Billy Sangster he he. I'm in the deep south but don't have that drawl. Lol! I love my Scottish heritage and learning aboot it!

Q4 a. "whit braw" of course. Q9 "clarty".

Very dirty- Boggin (Dumbarton)

I think I seen some tutorial a long while back, it's really good, because you don't really notice any line that separates. And aye, the Green Screen is quality, I'd love to get a hold of something like that. Was thinking of trying large sheets of light green paper, although it's like you say Billy, it's the right lighting you need for that.

lol lol use most of these words

Interesting. As a Glaswegian my accent is different but my answers to the 12 questions would have been pretty similar. A little surprised that somebody from the NE doesn't have a lot more words for 'losing badly at a game.'

@foolofhearts8126

7 жыл бұрын

atthebridge getting a skelpin or that game was an arse wipe

@janetmackinnon3411

2 жыл бұрын

The ba's on the slates...

@markmanderson

9 күн бұрын

humped or pumped for that but reamed yep hahah has made it past Angus :)

I understand the Abderdonian lingo, but don't understand why they speak "Tory" lingo at the ballot box. That's more complicated than a second order partial differential equation.

@BillySangster

2 жыл бұрын

No Aberdeen Tory MPs nor MSPs last time I looked. You're maybe meaning the 'Shire.

Brill! Meh wee Bairn speas th'beast "Scottish"!!! Meaks us all la!

Cheers Kel, glad you liked it. Or glaid ye liked it. :)

Why the white coat generally associated with medical -this is I trust portraying [mimicking] an academic (linguistics?) survey or research project... would be enough to show questioner in tweed jacket.... lab coat not convincing

@BillySangster

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment. I'll take it on board and keep it in mind for my next video.

Cheers Davie, thanks for the kind words! :)

Dirty is clatty. Brilliant is bra.

Braw !!!!!

Another word for bed is PIT

doesn't even sound like english to me! im from the states!

@BillySangster

7 жыл бұрын

A few of the words don't even originate from English, apparently - some seem to come from Norwegian, or Dutch, Danish, German etc.

@88maddiemartin

7 жыл бұрын

Billy Sangster ohhh interesting🤔

@jamileighruncie3834

6 жыл бұрын

Maddie Martin Its nae English its Dorik a mix o Scott's English and Gaelic 😂👍

@thanksforthacheese5977

6 жыл бұрын

@@jamileighruncie3834 yep doric and alot of people actually class it as a language not an accent due to the amount of words not in the English dictionary and doric mainly derived from the picts who mostly lived in the North East of Scotland.

@thanksforthacheese5977

5 жыл бұрын

@@Spr1ggan87 lmao no and no.. Don't try talk to a doric speaker about where our language is derived from.. All that nonsense you just typed isn't fact,more theory.

Is the accent of Doric in Buchan different from the accent of Doric in Mearns?

@BillySangster

5 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing there will be variations from coast to inland versions, but it's probably basically the same.

@shaneblake8310

5 жыл бұрын

@@BillySangster ah gotcha thanks

@markmanderson

9 күн бұрын

by the time it gets past howe o the mearns its still there in parts watered down a touch laurenkirk downards across to the east coast, we just have diff words for some things but most are the same too in Angus (Alba of the Picts country) doric is better imo.

Reekin

Funny=))

@BillySangster

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Irina! :)

Fan I wiz in i army I spoke like is and half i folk couldnae understand mi. Asking me to say “furry boots yi fae” aw the time

Amazing! I understand now what Scotty meant by different parts of Scotland has different accents. There were a words here that I would never understand if I didn't know the word like, showed on the screen, Would a Scottish person be insulted if an American said I am sorry I didn't understand you? I would worry so much about not being liked by the Scottish people, there have been different post on some web sites where they don't like americans to start with, and I love Scotland and it's people.

@weehenjen9544

6 жыл бұрын

Maria Lynn about accent. No such thing. It's called Dilect.......

@janetmackinnon3411

2 жыл бұрын

Nobody would be offended! Don't worry--most of us have family in the US!

Nice video 😊👍

@BillySangster

Жыл бұрын

Thank you 👍

aye, nae bad LOL

Really interesting and quite funny. But with the initial word list what you were doing for a lot of the words was not "pronouncing" them but something closer to translating them into dialect (e.g. turning "toilet" into "lavvy"). While that's interesting in itself, and raises lots of questions about linguistic identity and the relationships between dialects, it's not particularly helpful in the context of the accent tag challenge. The purpose of the challenge is to show how identical phonemes are realized across different accents, not to show how a native speaker would naturally express a given concept (i.e. phonological, not semantic).

@BillySangster

2 жыл бұрын

I can only apologise.

Edinburgh = Ed$%"#&%&/&

@amacuro

5 жыл бұрын

hahaha foreigners never know how to pronounce that one

@Virpatrick

5 жыл бұрын

Edin-b`ro

@Sabbathissaturday

5 жыл бұрын

I’m a Texan and I’ve been to Edinburgh many times. I pronounce it correctly and people here always try to “correct me”! 😂

@Virpatrick

5 жыл бұрын

@@amacuro I`m from Edinburgh .

@amacuro

5 жыл бұрын

@@Virpatrick I've lived in Aberdeen since 2010 and been to Edinburgh many times. I was just pointing out that foreigners don't know the correct pronunciation.

=) you are welcome///

today and tomorrow are more like swedish idag and imorgon.

I love being Scottish oh me

I speak exactly like this and I had scottish people askin me if I was actually scottish. Lol

that was BEEZER!!!!!!!

That’s German dude

lol the closed caption are completely gone.

@BillySangster

4 жыл бұрын

I'd never switched them on before - hilarious! 😂

Whale Oil Beef Hooked' Ye ken?

I could die in Scotland....

@jakemacallan9277

8 жыл бұрын

+Fredrik Chang i will....the country bares no resemblance to our ideas

Ask him about lousin time and yokin time mids and feerins Rascal Friday Widna hae a clue

@BillySangster

Жыл бұрын

Lousin n yokin times are obvious, but nivver heard o mids, feerins or Rascal Friday. Does that make me daft? Please enlighten me, sir.

in a few days im gonna go visit Edimburgh and now im bit scared: i think i wont understand anything of what people wuold say to me :/

@BillySangster

9 жыл бұрын

Don't be daft. The people of Edinburgh are wonderful and everyone is fully capable of understanding/being understood by tourists from all over the globe. :)

@giuseppeabbate5735

9 жыл бұрын

Billy Sangster i was just kiddin ofc, i've been there and actually had great time

@jakemacallan9277

8 жыл бұрын

+Billy Sangster terrorists or tourist ? yer wordings nae clear??

@joragarner7011

7 жыл бұрын

Giuseppe Abbate they talk really fast

@foolofhearts8126

7 жыл бұрын

Giuseppe Abbate Edinburgh accent is affa posh you'd understand em fine

Does he honestly find American films understandable?

@BillySangster

9 жыл бұрын

Yes, he does.

@foolofhearts8126

7 жыл бұрын

HighLevelPlayer of course scots can find US films and TV shows its like the easiest accent to understand ever

@Sylkenwolf

6 жыл бұрын

ScottishUnderTaleDude 26 don't be so sure. There's people here even I do not understand! It's the thick southern drawl and thick northern brogues that get me

A lot of this sounds oddly enough very Dutch

@th8257

5 жыл бұрын

It has retained a lot of old English pronunciation, which is a lot more similar to languages like Dutch

KEN

No such thing as a Scottish accent!! It's Dilect People honestly! Born and bred in Scotland And this isn't way all us Scots speak. We all have different Dialects

@BillySangster

6 жыл бұрын

Hahahahahahahaha

dude, you pretended to be?