He’s talking about fishing at first and the perfect fish he’s looking for. Then he goes on to talk about historical monuments and Robert The Bruce’s heart. Then he goes on to talk about the Romans and their settlement in the exact area they’re standing in.
Beware everybody. A black scottish drunk man is being searched by the police. The man is armed with explosives and he has been recently seen in the streets of ullapool in scotland. If you see him call the police and hide or you'll be his next victim, his name is Tavish Degroot A.K.A Demolitions man. Pd im a fan
I live in Ohio but half my family is from E. Kentucky and have strong American Southern Accents. Just got my AncestryDNA results back and I'm over %30 Scottish. Proud of that!
Scots: that american accent isn't crazy what so ever concidering we have been brought up with it on our tvs and radios and things we watched growing up
@@christianstainazfischer Depends on what you call default. It makes more sense to call British the default while for those states they're probably just soft American accents
@@christianstainazfischer Ah right forgot that there was lots of that happening. But still over time that "accent" becomes known as the American accent, which would have been influenced by other accents. The reason why it sounds so normal and clean to you is probably because you're very used to the sound of that English. Perhaps via an abundance of TV and other media or you just grew up there. The reason why practically all English speakers can understand the standard American accent (accent-less to you) is because of their TV and media being everywhere across the globe and is often their first interaction with English
+Patrick Star I'm also spanish and what it's going through my mind is a deep and depressing feeling of not having learned anything in more than 15 years learning english and 6 months living in York. Then I sart to concentrate myself and beggining to be able to understand some words and concepts. Damn.
I think there's actually an interesting and good reason for this...many Scots Irish settled in the southern part of the United States so the southern accent is actually somewhat derived from the Scots Irish accent.
Ha - you are right buddy. What's very weird is that my NC Appalachian highland accent WAS a Scottish accent about 5 generations back. Wonder what happened?
I'm from South Eastern Kentucky in the Appalachian mountains and I have an" American Appalachian English accent" and I can understand him perfectly 😊😊😊
Its funny how Kevin is actually trying to sound more clear when talking to the American. This isn't exactly what you would hear if you where speaking to him as another Scottish guy.
@Luke Bassilious After living in England for a while, My everyday accent has been somewhat 'anglicised', I can go full conversations without having to repeat myself. However, after a few drams thats straight oot the windae.
RooFooChoo You only understood him because he is from the borders of Scotland, he is geographically closer to England than he is to me in Glasgow, the further north you go in Scotland the less you will have any clue what is being said lol
........... I'm from New York and I'm pissing my pants with laughter listening to both the Scott AND the American southern ways of talking. At one point, I didn't even understand what the fuck the American guy said. LOL !! Priceless.
Just came to listen to the accent and I can understand it when I'm intensely focused on listening, the only accent I have complete difficulty understand is Jamaican patois
Ellen Szokky whats your problem? Negativity doesn’t get you anywhere in life, it just makes ppl feel worse. I know this was a very sarcastic and light comment but still, I wrote how I felt during this time and I spoke the truth. We are all different so how can one not understand another persons perspective on something? If you have nothing nice to say, don’t go spreading negative energies on MY comment or anywhere else. Anyways I hope you’re doing well!! Spread love and light because light always wins. 🌸
Transcription of Kevin's answers: 1. My name's Kevin Patterson and I'm a guide on the River Tweed, like. We're standing here down in the Borders. We're just outside Melrose, which is a famous town. Over the back of us, here, we've got the Eildons, one of the most famous landmarks of the Borders. It's three hills, and the myth is that Merlin the magician split one hill into three, and it left the two hills at the back of us which you can see. The weather's never good... They always say, in the Borders, if the mist's on the Eildon's we never get the good weather and, as you can see today, there's no sunshine It's a typical Scottish Borders day! 2. Tweed Guides, that's just been set up...it's about in its third year now, like. And we bring people over, from all walks of life, and we bring them fishing anywhere they want to go. Um...we use the Tweed, we use all the tributaries of the Tweed, and we just want to get people thegither to have fun and enjoy fishing...together. 3, I reckon, um...to start enjoying fly-fishing if... As long as you're happy just to go out, enjoy the scenery and take in just what all happens with it, like. You can enjoy it in a day -- two days is plenty time as long as you enjoy it, like. It's very important that you put it... put it totally out your mind about catching and just enjoy the casting and enjoy the scenery around you. 4. Well, a day like today we'd be looking for a spring salmon, a late-running spring salmon. The early salmon will just be starting to come up now, which we call the summer salmon. We've got the grilse and, uh, there'll be a few sea trout beginning to come forward. This a good time of the year, like, and it's just the start of the summer fishing. The spring fishing's just coming to an end. He's doing very well at the moment, actually, He just needs to slow things down just a little bit, um, he just wants to take his time on his forward cast. We'll have him... By the end of the morning, we'll have him... All that'll be sorted out, like. But the secret is...is give the people their space. Let them fish, let them get in the river, let them enjoy the fishing -- let them feel the rods. Don't be on their case all day, like. I can soon sort it out, it just takes five minutes. There's a perfect example. Only been fishing for the last 20 minutes and look at that -- perfect anchor point, perfect looping across the river. 6. Melrose Abbey -- just across... we can't quite see it from here, but it's just through the trees on the other side there, like. You can actually just see the main tower. Just through the trees, you can just see... 7. [About the sheep crap.] Aye, I know! You can see the top of Melrose... See the top of the Abbey there? ...See it just... there's kind of...just the bit sticking up. That's Melrose Abbey, like. 8. It's... Well, one of the big points of that is, uh, Robert the Bruce's heart's buried there. ... Yeah, they brought it back after he died, and they buried his heart in the Abbey, like. And they actually dug it up, uh, a few years back, and tried to put a DNA test... Yeah, to see what was what with it, like. And then it was all put back in again. But the monks of Melrose are very famous, and they brewed the famous mead that came out the Melrose Abbey, like. The ground we're standing on at the moment was actually...was all owned by the monks. All this flat plain you see in front of you, this was all owned by the monks of Melrose, like -- and they farmed this, like. There's actually a wall runs from the bottom at the river there, comes right up here. You cannae see it but it is there. It goes right round that corner and right back up to the Abbey, like. And that was their boundary. But uh, it's a very famous, and one of the oldest abbeys that there is in Scotland, like. 9. Yeah, it's a big Roman area, like. Newstead, which was one of the biggest and earliest settlements of the Romans, is just in the village behind us. Again, we can't quite see it for the trees and the stuff that's there. But the Romans settled here. And they had a fort on the top of the hill, just on the top of that hill there, like. And there's a lot of people come for this area to look at the.. the Roman fort and all the different stuff, like. 10. Yeah, there's a lot of bits and pieces. Yeah, it's very, very steeped in history, the Roman history, this area, like. Uh, when there was just a small settlement in Newstead, like. It goes back and all -- there are books and all the writing-up, and you can look back on the history, and it's always mentioned, Newstead. [About looking it up.]...Oh, definitely, like. Aye. (Kevin's using Standard English vocabulary, "little" instead of "wee" etc, and modifying some pronunciation towards SE, to be more comprehensible to foreigners. He uses one or two structures characteristic of Scots English (eg "over the back of us": "out your mind" vs of "out of your mind" and "get the good weather" vs "get good weather"). Most Scots don't realise our syntax is a bit different from Standard English even when we're using all SE vocabulary.)
Tony Lee Glenn Thanks! I don't upload stuff, so it's nice to be able to contribute something practical, especially to a gem of a video like this. Very nicely made. I started getting adobe flash gremlins and gave up -- I'll finish transcribing today.
***** You#re welcome! Not challenging to me at all, because I'm Scottish, I live my life among similar accents to this. Non-Scots usually think the accent of my area (industrial west of Scotland) is harder to understand than this one.
My grandfather was born in Aberdeen and came to the US at age 11. As an adult, he spoke what I would call very normal American English (no accent), but he could revert to his Scottish accent so easily. I loved it! I am 70 now, and I can still remember him saying, "Open your gibbie, and shoot out your wobbler," as he fed me a delicious spoonful of real creamery butter. (Open your mouth and stick out your tongue.) I also remember him reciting this poem: "Wee Jamie wid the curly heed (head), he, aye, sleeps next the wall. Bangs up and cries, "I wanna piece!" The rascal starts them all." I love and miss my grandfather, James T. Buchan. I am so grateful and happy that I was able to visit Scotland in 1995 with my teenage children.
What's really strange is how the combination of Scottish and Irish accents - fused in the Appalachian highlands resulted in my accent after only about 3 or 4 generations. I don't know how it came to be really. I can still remember some old-timers from my youth who still spoke with a modified Scottish accent because they'd heard their parents speak it in their childhood. Crazy.
My great grandfather was Scottish and settled in Montana. He was a fly fisherman, his son was, his son was, and I am. Its almost a requirement to know how to do this in my family. Such a pleasure to see where it all started.
Stronger to my ears. Scottish guy is easy to understand but I thought the American was disabled at first, I only realised he was American after a while.
@@jacobschmidt I’ve came to realize that northerners think slight southern accents are thick and real thick southern accents are just unintelligible to them
Husband is from scotland, when we first met, he sounded like this. Absolutely unintelligible! I had to nod and smile my way through the first date, much easier to break apart now.
Spanish here. I've learned my english in York, were I lived for a few years. I thought their accent was difficult to understand. THEN I went to Edinburgh and OMG. When I got the hang of it I went to Dublin. No words... Guess I like to challenge myself 😂
The Canadian Standard Dialect's two points of difference from the American Standard Dialect (the one you are most likely to hear on the news, in the media, in movies, etc.) are both vowel changes. These slightly different vowels in words like "about" and "ice" are holdovers from Scottish roots. I'm Canadian too. I won't say that people in my area speak this way (maybe it's more of an East Coast thing?) but we still have those two types of vowels in common with Scots English.
I was roaming in London a few years ago. At one of the tube stations, I needed to ask for directions and I ended up talking to a cop who was probably from Scotland. I asked my question and apparently he offered a reasonable answer. Trust me I was as lost as I originally was because I simply did not understand a single word of what the cop told me. With a courtesy smile and a thank you, I left him and resorted to a map of London that had much clearer information.
Everyone's saying how Scottish he sounds, but I'm fascinated by how English he sounds. I grew up in Newcastle, which is the northernmost big city in England (and 70 miles south of Melrose) - and it's really interesting how similar his accent is to mine - much more than even people from Edinburgh (who can sound a bit Geordie at times). Some of the traditional accents in rural Northumberland would be pretty much impossible to tell apart from his. Just shows that despite the political border being there for centuries, the cultural or linguistic boundary is still pretty vague.
Absolutely- I grew up not far from where they are in this video and now live in Glasgow; they all say I sound English. The intersection between Cumbria, Newcastle, Berwick and the Borders is really interesting- I think it's probably starkest around Jedburgh, Selkirk and Hawick
It's funny to see the mutual effort they have to see to understand each other :) Two equally diverse accents As a Brit, it's interesting to note that the Scottish man is the easier to understand :)
It's funny how my brain has to really re-focus when switching back and forth between the two accents. I think all accents are interesting and tell us so much about regional histories and the lives of people, and I'm really glad when people document them.
I'm from Ohio and I understood 90% of this, only when background noise came in or the mic was turned away did I lose him. I do a lot of Scottish research though and am getting very comfortable with the written form of Scots and the different dialects. He has a VERY clean accent compared to other Scots accents.
Beautiful culture, I love learning other countries history and in that way become closer to them. I was able to understand him fluently and I’m proud of that.
Both of their accents are great. I spent 3.5 years living in scotland and I find myself missing the accent now I've been back in england for six months, so I'm here after looking on youtube for some Scots to lull me to sleep tonight haha I've been missing Scotland more and more.
I think it needs to be said that Kevin is using his "foreigner compatible" best Sunday accent here. Rest assured, he doesn't speak to his wife and kids with such clear enunciation. ,-)
Ha - you are correct Ian. I had lunch with him and some of his buddies later that same day, and it was pretty tough to follow - but still very cool. I love hearing the borders accent.
Been there, spent a month in Newstead and Melrose. I even reached the top of the Eildon on a sunny day. Absolutely loved my staying. Wonderful place and wonderful people with awesome accents.
As a non-native English speaker I find Scottish and Irish both reasonbly easy to understand. Your pronunciations are quite sharp and expressive. Very enjoyable to listen to imo.
I'm an American & have been studying/listening to the Scottish accent (mainly Glaswegian as it's my favorite) for the last 2.5 years & I am proud to say I probably only missed about 6 words of what he said. I hope to be visiting Glasgow next year or the year after & cannot wait to get lost in the culture & the accents of course lol I hope I'll be able to understand nearly 98% of the people I speak to when I get there.
I've been to Scotland for a week and for my non-native-English ears, most of the people sounded like that :) Which is absolutely fine and you get used to it rather quickly. I was already starting to think I understand Scottish accent but I happened to ask that old couple how to find a laundry...
Hi I'm an Indian .. so I don't know about these accents In UK and America .. could you plz provide me detail regarding that aspect .. is accent different everywhere in England , Scotland , NA & SA ,?
Girl, when I studied abroad in Scotland, I went on three dates with a tall ginger Glaswegian, and I understood maybe half of what he said to me on our first date. I realized that I was engaging the same parts of my brain that I used when listening to Spanish.
I really don't know, what are you all talking about. I am czech, english is my second language and I understand both of them and the scottish guy has one of the mildest accents I've heard. Try going to Aberdeen, Fort William or Perth and talking with one of the locals.
Stacy Steele This is where I'm from, and watching this video makes me want to go home!! It really, really is beautiful, especially on a sunny spring day when all the little lambs are out in the fields :) It's sad that when a lot of people think of Scotland, they immediately think of the Highlands. I'm so glad you think the lovely Lowlands are just as beautiful!
Princess Smartypants How lucky for you to be from this beautiful country, with such a rich history. I've never been there, but I hope to visit soon, one day. Half of my family tree is from both, Scotland and Ireland. I don't know much about the country, but I do love what I know.
+Princess Smartypants I really loved visiting your area. The people are so nice there. The food was great. I had an awesome time there. Yes you should go back home. You're right to miss ir.
this is awesome! I couldn't understand Mr. Patterson at first, but the more I listened, the more I understood. I went back to the beginning of the video to catch what I missed lol
English is not my mother language, and now that I know how to speak it, I find myself watching this and feeling like I'm seven again (when I started learning English)
when I was a young, I had the coolest Scottish friends, him and his brother always like to play football with me and the local kids (Solomon Islands)...I wonder what he's up to now
Thanks to Craig Ferguson I can understand most of this. It is quite jarring, though, when it goes back to the Southern American accent. It's kind of like one's mind needs to go onto a different track for the different accents. Love it.
I love both of your voices, there's a real character to them, like talking to well-traveled friends. Granted I might ask for word repeats or spellings, but it's not that hard to understand. :D
Australia, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Northern Ireland, England, Scotland, Welsh is more British English and Canada and the United States are more American-Canadian English
I'm from Tennessee, and practically all of us are of Ulster Scots ancestry; consequently, our native "South Midland" U.S. Southern accent is actually heavily derived from various incarnations of Scottish and Irish accents. (Again, I'm talking about the "South Midland" accent, not the overblown "Virginia Plantation" U.S. Southern accent--like "Whah, Ahm jes' so happeh ta be heah"; very few people here actually speak like that--I'm talking more like Channing Tatum-meets-Matthew McConaughey with some Billy Bob Thornton sprinkled in.) Consequently, I have no trouble whatsoever understanding virtually every regional Scottish accent from Stranraer to Kirkwall. (And, yes, that includes the Glaswegian accent. ;^) ) Scottish accents are my favorites of all English language accents; they're pure music to my ears!
Where in TN? My aunt is from there and she says ye (like where ye going) and very hard R sound. Her grandma said to me, hand me that paper poke. And I almost lost it laughing. Turns out a poke is a word they still use in Scotland to refer to a paper bag. Same as what she was referring to.
I grew up across the mountains in North Carolina Appalachian highlands. They still call paper bags pokes over there too. So many strange sayings by the old-timers, but it's all fading away these days.
+Inessa Sychyev I'm from Nashville; however, both my paternal and maternal relatives are from smaller towns and rural areas in the central part of the state (i.e., Smithville, McMinnville, and Livingston). Just like your aunt, my kin say "ye" for "you." They also say a variant of "aye" for "yes" (they pronounce it more like "eye-ya") and "naw" for "no"-just to name a couple of examples. My kin also use a hard rhotic "R." By the way, my missus is from Erin, Tennessee. Guess what her ancestry is? ;^)
Sad isn't it? My mom remarried a guy from Illinois and he couldn't understand her at all. Haha She told him she needed to go 'trade' and he didn't know what she meant.
I returned to this video after 3 more years of learning and listening to different English accents and I can proudly say I understand about a half of what he is saying, when before I understood only "town"
He's modifying his pronunciation for clarity a bit, towards more standard-English pronunciation. Talking to his friends, he'd sound a bit different. You can hear if he goes on for a bit he lapses more from the telephone-voice towards his more natural speech. To a Scottish ear, the (?southern) American accent in this vid is very pleasant, very clear diction, a nice lilt to it, easy to undertsand.
You would probably find the North Carolina Lumbee Indian accent very interesting. I'm a Scot-Irish Appalachian Mountain guy who is married to a native American woman from this region (although not the same tribe). I love their brand of southern accent that is highly regionalized and mashed up - sort of like mid-atlantic cajun sort of sound. Watch this video (actually the first of 4 videos in a series on a southern Pig Pickin'. Very cool to hear and analyze. ua-cam.com/video/CQo_Wqo32yI/v-deo.html
Tony Lee Glenn That IS an interesting video, though it left me kinda hungry! The speech rhythm there, and some of the vowels, hardly sound American, to a non-American, anyway.
I canna unders stahnd yah but we love your accent . Kidding we can piece it together what you talking about but listening to you it reminds us of our dear friend Effie
I've got more difficulty understanding the American. Melrose Abbey houses Robert the Bruce's heart which was taken there after coming under attack by Moors in Spain and on the way to the Holy Land by James Douglas. Bruce in common with many knights of the period wanted his heart taken to the Holy Land on death.
Actually, the interviewer's accent (southern) is related to/ descended from Scottish & Irish, as the Scots-Irish (Irish people who temporarily lived in Scotland before coming to America) who came to the Appalacians are responsible for how people from TN, KY, and other southern states talk (especially strong dialects of the Appalachian Mountains). Before I knew this as a fact, I wondered about it, due to the older generations of my family from TN having such a strong dialect that I could barely understand them, and it sounded very much like Scottish to me - and sure enough, their dialect & accents are truly linked to Scottish & Irish.
been studying english for like 14 years now, I use english-speaking media every single day and I can't remember the last time since I genuinely did not understand what someone was saying
Funny how that works. Sometimes where the accent sound is placed in a word can really throw you off, and tends to make you have to really think to understand what is being said.
Anyone got the lyrics?
He’s talking about fishing at first and the perfect fish he’s looking for. Then he goes on to talk about historical monuments and Robert The Bruce’s heart. Then he goes on to talk about the Romans and their settlement in the exact area they’re standing in.
This was humourous
Kinda
Good question man... 😂
Beware everybody. A black scottish drunk man is being searched by the police. The man is armed with explosives and he has been recently seen in the streets of ullapool in scotland. If you see him call the police and hide or you'll be his next victim, his name is Tavish Degroot A.K.A Demolitions man. Pd im a fan
A Scot and a southern American talking together.... I can die now.
JAJAJAJAJA for real.
Most badass accents. This video is gold.
I live in Ohio but half my family is from E. Kentucky and have strong American Southern Accents. Just got my AncestryDNA results back and I'm over %30 Scottish. Proud of that!
I feel bad for the Scotsman
Then an Irish also join the group even more insane
Americans: "Wow that Scottish guy has a crazy accent!" Scots: "Wow that American has a crazy accent!"
Scots: that american accent isn't crazy what so ever concidering we have been brought up with it on our tvs and radios and things we watched growing up
Me as an ukrainian: "nu gde za hrenu ya sobi moyu bot-elocku poklau?"
@@christianstainazfischer Depends on what you call default. It makes more sense to call British the default while for those states they're probably just soft American accents
@@christianstainazfischer what do you man theres no accent ? everyone has an accent
@@christianstainazfischer Ah right forgot that there was lots of that happening. But still over time that "accent" becomes known as the American accent, which would have been influenced by other accents. The reason why it sounds so normal and clean to you is probably because you're very used to the sound of that English. Perhaps via an abundance of TV and other media or you just grew up there.
The reason why practically all English speakers can understand the standard American accent (accent-less to you) is because of their TV and media being everywhere across the globe and is often their first interaction with English
Damn it! Just as I thought I can understand english.
Ha! Sorry Kevin and I complicated that for you.
same feels bad man
I'm Scottish so a understand it easy
2 yeast in Uk and i understand all, and i`m not from England
4 realz...
Spaniard guy learning english here.
Wrong video.
Vaalferatus Definetly not
looooool
+Patrick Star I'm also spanish and what it's going through my mind is a deep and depressing feeling of not having learned anything in more than 15 years learning english and 6 months living in York.
Then I sart to concentrate myself and beggining to be able to understand some words and concepts. Damn.
French guy too bahahaha
I'm really fucked up, I can't even understand anything.
I love how they both somehow understand each other
😂😂😂😂😂😂 I'm pretty sure interviewer pretending to understand everything
I think there's actually an interesting and good reason for this...many Scots Irish settled in the southern part of the United States so the southern accent is actually somewhat derived from the Scots Irish accent.
Yeah it’s interesting that they can actually keep on conversation. It’s like Danish and Swedish people talking to each other.
I'm Australian and can understand... just have to concentrate!
As a scottish person i can EASILY understand both accents
Do you speak English?
*Scottish person* : Weel aye, bit actually na.
DJ Stapler JAJAJAJAJJAJAA I lost it mate.
DJ Stapler 🤣🤣🤣
Lol
Ah so we meet again
I literally can't nearly not understand what this Scottish fela is sayin! 🤣
Southern US vs Scottish... two mad accents LOL
Ha - you are right buddy. What's very weird is that my NC Appalachian highland accent WAS a Scottish accent about 5 generations back. Wonder what happened?
@@tonyleeglenn i was thinking that most folk from that region have scottish ancestry.
@@tonyleeglenn hi, been reading about this, it was seemingly Scots-Irish who settled in the appalachians. Checking their accents now.
I'm from South Eastern Kentucky in the Appalachian mountains and I have an" American Appalachian English accent" and I can understand him perfectly 😊😊😊
I can assure you all, he is really putting on his poshest accent, he won't talk like this when at home, or pub.
Its funny how Kevin is actually trying to sound more clear when talking to the American. This isn't exactly what you would hear if you where speaking to him as another Scottish guy.
Wait so it is the LIGHT version of Scottish dialect? Impressive
Correct
america doesn't have a problem understanding us
@@fraser_mr2009 They struggled when I was in Texas.
@Luke Bassilious After living in England for a while, My everyday accent has been somewhat 'anglicised', I can go full conversations without having to repeat myself. However, after a few drams thats straight oot the windae.
This accent is amazing, even tho his accent wasn't as thick as I was expecting, I still couldn't understand a lot of words he was saying lol
RooFooChoo You only understood him because he is from the borders of Scotland, he is geographically closer to England than he is to me in Glasgow, the further north you go in Scotland the less you will have any clue what is being said lol
Naw wit you on aboot his accent isna that good a mean it’s aw right
aye bu thas cus he was speakin te dem fuckin american or sume, i dinae fuckn know, so he could understan the man better, I think
well damn, I understand most of the meaning but having issues understand some words as well
Gary Mcatear shes off her trolley 🤯😂
i can listen to this guy for hours, loving the scottish accent
........... I'm from New York and I'm pissing my pants with laughter listening to both the Scott AND the American southern ways of talking. At one point, I didn't even understand what the fuck the American guy said. LOL !! Priceless.
indeed, that is fricking hilarious to hear two complete different accents xd
as do I.
Same here
i can under stand it i am from the Scottish borders i am a young farmer form the Scottish borders and hear this every day
The American's accent was strong too.
Because USA is #1 and we like it when it’s right on your face
@@bericpaye4467 , huh? Calm down, sheeeshhhhhhhhh.
@@bericpaye4467 Not really Usa Is Never Been a Very Safe Country Cause Of Its High Gun Crimes
Southern US accent we don't sound like that in other parts of the country
@@bericpaye4467 Ok Mister PhatAss.
I understood every word of that proud Scotsman here
Just came to listen to the accent and I can understand it when I'm intensely focused on listening, the only accent I have complete difficulty understand is Jamaican patois
same apart from the place names
goddamn, mate.
is it possible to learn this power?
@@kosmic100 be scottish
Im asian and i understand it fully and idk why
It’s crazy how the first thirty seconds I was like:
WHAT LANGUAGE IS THIS?
and by the end I could understand him perfectly
where u from
Same here
It was like this scene in the 13th Warrior when Antonio Banderas starts to understand the vikings lmao
Yeeeeah, sure (eyeroll)
Ellen Szokky whats your problem? Negativity doesn’t get you anywhere in life, it just makes ppl feel worse. I know this was a very sarcastic and light comment but still, I wrote how I felt during this time and I spoke the truth. We are all different so how can one not understand another persons perspective on something? If you have nothing nice to say, don’t go spreading negative energies on MY comment or anywhere else. Anyways I hope you’re doing well!! Spread love and light because light always wins. 🌸
HOWW? 😂 It’s soooo easy to understand lol
The title must be:
The CLASH of ACCENTS
Wait! I Know a game called simps!
These simps are speaking that! That speak your talking about! Its the simps
Wait! I Know a game called simps!
These simps are speaking that! That speak your talking about! Its the simps
LOL. True.
This video is testament to how diverse the English language is; an American deep south accent and a broad Scottish accent. Wonderful! lol
Go to northern country Straya and you'll be bamboozled
@@sebbyh9764 northern??
Joshua Freer Straya stands for Australia mate. Greetings from switzerland👋🏼
All languages develop accents.there is a famous Chinese rule that after a certain distance every people's accents and features change
Transcription of Kevin's answers:
1. My name's Kevin Patterson and I'm a guide on the River Tweed, like. We're standing here down in the Borders. We're just outside Melrose, which is a famous town. Over the back of us, here, we've got the Eildons, one of the most famous landmarks of the Borders. It's three hills, and the myth is that Merlin the magician split one hill into three, and it left the two hills at the back of us which you can see. The weather's never good... They always say, in the Borders, if the mist's on the Eildon's we never get the good weather and, as you can see today, there's no sunshine It's a typical Scottish Borders day!
2. Tweed Guides, that's just been set up...it's about in its third year now, like. And we bring people over, from all walks of life, and we bring them fishing anywhere they want to go. Um...we use the Tweed, we use all the tributaries of the Tweed, and we just want to get people thegither to have fun and enjoy fishing...together.
3, I reckon, um...to start enjoying fly-fishing if... As long as you're happy just to go out, enjoy the scenery and take in just what all happens with it, like. You can enjoy it in a day -- two days is plenty time as long as you enjoy it, like. It's very important that you put it... put it totally out your mind about catching and just enjoy the casting and enjoy the scenery around you.
4. Well, a day like today we'd be looking for a spring salmon, a late-running spring salmon. The early salmon will just be starting to come up now, which we call the summer salmon. We've got the grilse and, uh, there'll be a few sea trout beginning to come forward. This a good time of the year, like, and it's just the start of the summer fishing. The spring fishing's just coming to an end.
He's doing very well at the moment, actually, He just needs to slow things down just a little bit, um, he just wants to take his time on his forward cast. We'll have him... By the end of the morning, we'll have him... All that'll be sorted out, like. But the secret is...is give the people their space. Let them fish, let them get in the river, let them enjoy the fishing -- let them feel the rods. Don't be on their case all day, like. I can soon sort it out, it just takes five minutes. There's a perfect example. Only been fishing for the last 20 minutes and look at that -- perfect anchor point, perfect looping across the river.
6. Melrose Abbey -- just across... we can't quite see it from here, but it's just through the trees on the other side there, like. You can actually just see the main tower. Just through the trees, you can just see...
7. [About the sheep crap.] Aye, I know! You can see the top of Melrose... See the top of the Abbey there? ...See it just... there's kind of...just the bit sticking up. That's Melrose Abbey, like.
8. It's... Well, one of the big points of that is, uh, Robert the Bruce's heart's buried there. ... Yeah, they brought it back after he died, and they buried his heart in the Abbey, like. And they actually dug it up, uh, a few years back, and tried to put a DNA test... Yeah, to see what was what with it, like. And then it was all put back in again. But the monks of Melrose are very famous, and they brewed the famous mead that came out the Melrose Abbey, like. The ground we're standing on at the moment was actually...was all owned by the monks. All this flat plain you see in front of you, this was all owned by the monks of Melrose, like -- and they farmed this, like. There's actually a wall runs from the bottom at the river there, comes right up here. You cannae see it but it is there. It goes right round that corner and right back up to the Abbey, like. And that was their boundary. But uh, it's a very famous, and one of the oldest abbeys that there is in Scotland, like.
9. Yeah, it's a big Roman area, like. Newstead, which was one of the biggest and earliest settlements of the Romans, is just in the village behind us. Again, we can't quite see it for the trees and the stuff that's there. But the Romans settled here. And they had a fort on the top of the hill, just on the top of that hill there, like. And there's a lot of people come for this area to look at the.. the Roman fort and all the different stuff, like.
10. Yeah, there's a lot of bits and pieces. Yeah, it's very, very steeped in history, the Roman history, this area, like. Uh, when there was just a small settlement in Newstead, like. It goes back and all -- there are books and all the writing-up, and you can look back on the history, and it's always mentioned, Newstead. [About looking it up.]...Oh, definitely, like. Aye.
(Kevin's using Standard English vocabulary, "little" instead of "wee" etc, and modifying some pronunciation towards SE, to be more comprehensible to foreigners. He uses one or two structures characteristic of Scots English (eg "over the back of us": "out your mind" vs of "out of your mind" and "get the good weather" vs "get good weather"). Most Scots don't realise our syntax is a bit different from Standard English even when we're using all SE vocabulary.)
Fantastic transcription. Thank you for this contribution to the thread. Just a great job. Tony
Tony Lee Glenn
Thanks! I don't upload stuff, so it's nice to be able to contribute something practical, especially to a gem of a video like this. Very nicely made.
I started getting adobe flash gremlins and gave up -- I'll finish transcribing today.
Jeez!!! This looks like a very challenging job. Thank you for this. I really-really appreciate it.
*****
You#re welcome! Not challenging to me at all, because I'm Scottish, I live my life among similar accents to this. Non-Scots usually think the accent of my area (industrial west of Scotland) is harder to understand than this one.
jistaface thanks a lot ,from the land of earthquake CHILE
My grandfather was born in Aberdeen and came to the US at age 11. As an adult, he spoke what I would call very normal American English (no accent), but he could revert to his Scottish accent so easily. I loved it! I am 70 now, and I can still remember him saying, "Open your gibbie, and shoot out your wobbler," as he fed me a delicious spoonful of real creamery butter. (Open your mouth and stick out your tongue.)
I also remember him reciting this poem:
"Wee Jamie wid the curly heed (head), he, aye, sleeps next the wall. Bangs up and cries, "I wanna piece!" The rascal starts them all."
I love and miss my grandfather, James T. Buchan.
I am so grateful and happy that I was able to visit Scotland in 1995 with my teenage children.
God bless you and your family Sir
I almost choke to death when i turned the captions on...
THANK YOU!!
its a chemical squash board or they're dead 0:29
all about fly fashion :-)
OMFG. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Beyond hilarious. "It's three hills and the method at maryland ejection..."
DYING. My dog walked over to make sure I was okay.
Benur Anouk lmao I just turned it on fml 😂you basically need to turn on your imagination rather than the fucking caption lol
Two beautiful accents! I hope TV and the internet don't cause regional accents to disappear. So interesting to listen to.
😂😂 don't be ridiculous 😂😂
The nicest sweetest people i met ever. God bless Scotland. Love from pakistan 🇵🇰
I love the clash of accents here: the Scottish and the American southern.
What's really strange is how the combination of Scottish and Irish accents - fused in the Appalachian highlands resulted in my accent after only about 3 or 4 generations. I don't know how it came to be really. I can still remember some old-timers from my youth who still spoke with a modified Scottish accent because they'd heard their parents speak it in their childhood. Crazy.
@@tonyleeglenn that's pretty cool I'm from Scotland and never knew that. You learn something new everyday
@@tonyleeglenn lol Appalachian highlands. “MOM, IM A HIGHLANDER. THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!!!!”
"As you can see today, there's no sunshine". I did my best.
I love hearing that accent. When I visited a couple distilleries in Scotland. I had a blast, and the people are so friendly.
The interviewer's accent is one of the nicest American accents I've ever heard.
+CPE LANGUES God bless you. Usually everyone talks about how unpleasant my Appalachian accent is. Nice to get a kind comment. TLG
+CPE LANGUES Surely that wasn't American? He didn't sound American to me.
John Simpson Hey John - Yes, I'm American from the Scot-Irish Appalachian Highlands of Western North Carolina. Thanks for watching and commenting.
+CPE LANGUES Yeah. Hot to Aussie ears for sure.
No way man it was so annoying to me. I think us northerners have the best accents. (Northeast)
Love it! It's like a poem. His accent has a flow.
She should be a famous poet
My great grandfather was Scottish and settled in Montana. He was a fly fisherman, his son was, his son was, and I am. Its almost a requirement to know how to do this in my family. Such a pleasure to see where it all started.
I've spoken English for all my life and I only understood like 20% of that
Sam Hidalgo same
I’ve spokenn english all my life too, I can understand him
I understand 80
What country do you from?
lmao I've spoken English for 2 years and I only understood 5% of that
Oh my word! What a combination! A Scottish gentleman and a Southern American. I can't believe they could understand each other!
The southern guys accent is just as strong 💀
I just said that in my head lol
Stronger to my ears. Scottish guy is easy to understand but I thought the American was disabled at first, I only realised he was American after a while.
yeah, that's a pretty strong southern American accent lol
that's not strong at all, bit surprised that y'all think that's strong
@@jacobschmidt I’ve came to realize that northerners think slight southern accents are thick and real thick southern accents are just unintelligible to them
Two of my favourite accents speaking to eachother. Rare treat.
Husband is from scotland, when we first met, he sounded like this. Absolutely unintelligible! I had to nod and smile my way through the first date, much easier to break apart now.
is it supposed to be funny or sad?
same with my best friend chris except im the scottish one
Spanish here. I've learned my english in York, were I lived for a few years. I thought their accent was difficult to understand. THEN I went to Edinburgh and OMG. When I got the hang of it I went to Dublin. No words... Guess I like to challenge myself 😂
Hahahahahaha 🤣
I am from Canada and I understood everything, we have a lot of people who sound like him here.
The Canadian Standard Dialect's two points of difference from the American Standard Dialect (the one you are most likely to hear on the news, in the media, in movies, etc.) are both vowel changes. These slightly different vowels in words like "about" and "ice" are holdovers from Scottish roots.
I'm Canadian too. I won't say that people in my area speak this way (maybe it's more of an East Coast thing?) but we still have those two types of vowels in common with Scots English.
Yeah, I don't have trouble understanding him either.
Virginia says oot and aboot and hoos, etc. I thought it was Southern, not Canadian.
I don't where you live in Canada but we don't speak like that. Our accent is closer our southern neighbor.
Really? Where exactly?
I was roaming in London a few years ago. At one of the tube stations, I needed to ask for directions and I ended up talking to a cop who was probably from Scotland. I asked my question and apparently he offered a reasonable answer. Trust me I was as lost as I originally was because I simply did not understand a single word of what the cop told me. With a courtesy smile and a thank you, I left him and resorted to a map of London that had much clearer information.
Tbf you couldve been talking to anyone from the Midlands up because half of Britain accents will be hard to understand at first
You probably should've used a map to begin with.
Everyone's saying how Scottish he sounds, but I'm fascinated by how English he sounds. I grew up in Newcastle, which is the northernmost big city in England (and 70 miles south of Melrose) - and it's really interesting how similar his accent is to mine - much more than even people from Edinburgh (who can sound a bit Geordie at times). Some of the traditional accents in rural Northumberland would be pretty much impossible to tell apart from his.
Just shows that despite the political border being there for centuries, the cultural or linguistic boundary is still pretty vague.
Absolutely- I grew up not far from where they are in this video and now live in Glasgow; they all say I sound English. The intersection between Cumbria, Newcastle, Berwick and the Borders is really interesting- I think it's probably starkest around Jedburgh, Selkirk and Hawick
Lol I just checked on fb and we have mutual friends
i'm Norwegian and this is easy to understand
Hello cuz
Yeah you Scandinavians know our native languages so much more better than us :( lol
Silje Scottish accent reminds me of Norwegian or Swedish one, they are like 'singing' a bit
The truth
Silje for the first few seconds i actually thought it was Norwegian
I'll be studying in Scotland.. I decided to check Scottish accent out.. I thought I knew English.. X.X
AkitenV we'll slow down for you 😂
AkitenV no we don’t all talk like that lol
I didn't understand a damn thing but I love the accent 😂
Same lmao💀
Cringey Americans. 😂 how come we can understand you but you can't understand us? 😂😂
It's funny to see the mutual effort they have to see to understand each other :) Two equally diverse accents
As a Brit, it's interesting to note that the Scottish man is the easier to understand :)
It's funny how my brain has to really re-focus when switching back and forth between the two accents. I think all accents are interesting and tell us so much about regional histories and the lives of people, and I'm really glad when people document them.
If one truly knows the southern Appalachian dialect, and listen to this fine gentleman's dialect, there are so many similarities. Love it.
I'm from Ohio and I understood 90% of this, only when background noise came in or the mic was turned away did I lose him. I do a lot of Scottish research though and am getting very comfortable with the written form of Scots and the different dialects. He has a VERY clean accent compared to other Scots accents.
this isn't quite scots, just english with scottish slang
"there's no shunSHANE"
lol i cant stop laughing
The Irish Farmers Lose Their Sheep, Mad Accent is weirder than this guy's accent.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@randomvidios09 if you make a video trying to imitate his accent... we'll love you
What?
@@weelewism8442 The video, I should've said 'The Irish Farmers Lose Their Sheep...' it's a must watch after this video
Yea defo I this guy is clear and we'll spoken
Wow, I can actually understand him! And English isn't even my native language :D I feel that I've passed the ultimate test...
that's amazing because I can't understand a word he has said..are there subtitles to this?
Stacy Steele Here's my translation video - ua-cam.com/video/g7kQK2KTt_4/v-deo.html
Same here and I'm dutch
English is my first language I'm from Oklahoma I can't understand a word this guy has
Says
Beautiful culture, I love learning other countries history and in that way become closer to them. I was able to understand him fluently and I’m proud of that.
Both of their accents are great. I spent 3.5 years living in scotland and I find myself missing the accent now I've been back in england for six months, so I'm here after looking on youtube for some Scots to lull me to sleep tonight haha
I've been missing Scotland more and more.
When he zoomed in, it look like a painting on a wall, the Scottish Abbey is a stunner!
I think it needs to be said that Kevin is using his "foreigner compatible" best Sunday accent here. Rest assured, he doesn't speak to his wife and kids with such clear enunciation. ,-)
Ha - you are correct Ian. I had lunch with him and some of his buddies later that same day, and it was pretty tough to follow - but still very cool. I love hearing the borders accent.
True. He probably speaks with more of a Scottish tounge.
Been there, spent a month in Newstead and Melrose. I even reached the top of the Eildon on a sunny day. Absolutely loved my staying. Wonderful place and wonderful people with awesome accents.
As a non-native English speaker I find Scottish and Irish both reasonbly easy to understand. Your pronunciations are quite sharp and expressive. Very enjoyable to listen to imo.
Indeed. If you want to hear the English language truly butchered, come to England! Lol
I'm an American & have been studying/listening to the Scottish accent (mainly Glaswegian as it's my favorite) for the last 2.5 years & I am proud to say I probably only missed about 6 words of what he said. I hope to be visiting Glasgow next year or the year after & cannot wait to get lost in the culture & the accents of course lol I hope I'll be able to understand nearly 98% of the people I speak to when I get there.
How about you now?
THAT was so awesome! I couldn’t stop smiling, listening to these guys!
I've been to Scotland for a week and for my non-native-English ears, most of the people sounded like that :) Which is absolutely fine and you get used to it rather quickly. I was already starting to think I understand Scottish accent but I happened to ask that old couple how to find a laundry...
Hi I'm an Indian .. so I don't know about these accents In UK and America .. could you plz provide me detail regarding that aspect .. is accent different everywhere in England , Scotland , NA & SA ,?
why does he look like "little Finger"????
Ikr :3
Little Finger is much hotter lol
omg ikr
I thought so too.
+Archer Zhang He is not lol.
Yes, i agree with him...Messi is better than Ronaldo
:=D
😂😂😂😂
He just said what the messiah goes around
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
lmao
I could just listen to him all day
If this man was the last Scot alive, he'd be the blueprint for his language. Beautiful!
This guy is great !! Big smile, and just wants people to enjoy and have fun... great video..
I am proud to say that I understood 5 words. "Water, People, All, yeah, no".
I am very proud of myself. So proud of myself.
I’m actually surprised the two are having a conversation
Ahhahahahaahhaha
You are one step ahead of us.
I really proud of you. I understand less
The meeting of two mountain accents...
take time and admire how beautiful that landscape is!
Wow - I think you're right.
Everybody's gangsta till you turn on the closed captioning.
😂😂
Not sure captions eould hel a lot here. They barely track CNN news announcers 🤣
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I'm actually really proud that I have no problem understanding this guys anymore, after nearly 7 years living in Scotland though 😂
It’s just so funny how they’re both two extreme accents of the English language 😁
hd camera in 2007, wow
Yes - I still have the cam, a Canon HV20. It was brand new on the market when I took this trip.
Wait, what 😲
The fact that I’m here because I matched with a Scottish guy on tinder and need to learn to understand a Scottish accent😂
Girl, when I studied abroad in Scotland, I went on three dates with a tall ginger Glaswegian, and I understood maybe half of what he said to me on our first date. I realized that I was engaging the same parts of my brain that I used when listening to Spanish.
I really don't know, what are you all talking about. I am czech, english is my second language and I understand both of them and the scottish guy has one of the mildest accents I've heard. Try going to Aberdeen, Fort William or Perth and talking with one of the locals.
haha 🤣😂
SAME
@@mrkv4k Přesně! :'-D
I just listened to The Proclaimers song "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)". Love the Scottish accents!
I only understood maybe 3 percent but how great it would be to live there?! Such a beautiful piece of country.
His voice is beautiful!
Stacy Steele This is where I'm from, and watching this video makes me want to go home!! It really, really is beautiful, especially on a sunny spring day when all the little lambs are out in the fields :) It's sad that when a lot of people think of Scotland, they immediately think of the Highlands. I'm so glad you think the lovely Lowlands are just as beautiful!
Princess Smartypants How lucky for you to be from this beautiful country, with such a rich history. I've never been there, but I hope to visit soon, one day. Half of my family tree is from both, Scotland and Ireland. I don't know much about the country, but I do love what I know.
It's all incredible
+Princess Smartypants I really loved visiting your area. The people are so nice there. The food was great. I had an awesome time there. Yes you should go back home. You're right to miss ir.
English is my second language and I managed to undertand the Scottish guy.
This is a milestone to be proud of.
this is awesome! I couldn't understand Mr. Patterson at first, but the more I listened, the more I understood. I went back to the beginning of the video to catch what I missed lol
Ha - you get the hang of it. It's an awesome and charming kind of accent!
I’m proud to say that thanks to the fact that I love many scottish actors, I was able to understand 40% of this video ✌🏻
English is not my mother language, and now that I know how to speak it, I find myself watching this and feeling like I'm seven again (when I started learning English)
English is my mother language and I didn't understand shit 🤦🏿♂️😂😂😂
Wonderful.
“Golf in the Kingdom” with Shivas Irons comes alive.
when I was a young, I had the coolest Scottish friends, him and his brother always like to play football with me and the local kids (Solomon Islands)...I wonder what he's up to now
Thanks to Craig Ferguson I can understand most of this. It is quite jarring, though, when it goes back to the Southern American accent. It's kind of like one's mind needs to go onto a different track for the different accents. Love it.
You make me proud to carry this last name. Thank you Mr Patterson and God bless you!
I can't belive, before coming to Scotland, I couldn't understand a word. I came here after 4 years and I understand every word 😂 #goals
Whoever put CC in this video, bless em'!
Great video. Love the accents. Thanks for sharing.
I love both of your voices, there's a real character to them, like talking to well-traveled friends. Granted I might ask for word repeats or spellings, but it's not that hard to understand. :D
England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales - the historical homeland of most Americans, Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders
Yes
Australia, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Northern Ireland, England, Scotland, Welsh is more British English and Canada and the United States are more American-Canadian English
Good video! I love Scottish accents. Cheers from Clayton, NC!
I'm from Tennessee, and practically all of us are of Ulster Scots ancestry; consequently, our native "South Midland" U.S. Southern accent is actually heavily derived from various incarnations of Scottish and Irish accents. (Again, I'm talking about the "South Midland" accent, not the overblown "Virginia Plantation" U.S. Southern accent--like "Whah, Ahm jes' so happeh ta be heah"; very few people here actually speak like that--I'm talking more like Channing Tatum-meets-Matthew McConaughey with some Billy Bob Thornton sprinkled in.)
Consequently, I have no trouble whatsoever understanding virtually every regional Scottish accent from Stranraer to Kirkwall. (And, yes, that includes the Glaswegian accent. ;^) )
Scottish accents are my favorites of all English language accents; they're pure music to my ears!
Where in TN? My aunt is from there and she says ye (like where ye going) and very hard R sound. Her grandma said to me, hand me that paper poke. And I almost lost it laughing. Turns out a poke is a word they still use in Scotland to refer to a paper bag. Same as what she was referring to.
I grew up across the mountains in North Carolina Appalachian highlands. They still call paper bags pokes over there too. So many strange sayings by the old-timers, but it's all fading away these days.
+Inessa Sychyev I'm from Nashville; however, both my paternal and maternal relatives are from smaller towns and rural areas in the central part of the state (i.e., Smithville, McMinnville, and Livingston). Just like your aunt, my kin say "ye" for "you." They also say a variant of "aye" for "yes" (they pronounce it more like "eye-ya") and "naw" for "no"-just to name a couple of examples. My kin also use a hard rhotic "R."
By the way, my missus is from Erin, Tennessee. Guess what her ancestry is? ;^)
Sad isn't it? My mom remarried a guy from Illinois and he couldn't understand her at all. Haha She told him she needed to go 'trade' and he didn't know what she meant.
Iconic , a southern American and a Scottish accent together
I returned to this video after 3 more years of learning and listening to different English accents and I can proudly say I understand about a half of what he is saying, when before I understood only "town"
Hey that is pretty good progress though. Very cool that you came back to watch again!
He's modifying his pronunciation for clarity a bit, towards more standard-English pronunciation. Talking to his friends, he'd sound a bit different. You can hear if he goes on for a bit he lapses more from the telephone-voice towards his more natural speech.
To a Scottish ear, the (?southern) American accent in this vid is very pleasant, very clear diction, a nice lilt to it, easy to undertsand.
You would probably find the North Carolina Lumbee Indian accent very interesting. I'm a Scot-Irish Appalachian Mountain guy who is married to a native American woman from this region (although not the same tribe). I love their brand of southern accent that is highly regionalized and mashed up - sort of like mid-atlantic cajun sort of sound. Watch this video (actually the first of 4 videos in a series on a southern Pig Pickin'. Very cool to hear and analyze. ua-cam.com/video/CQo_Wqo32yI/v-deo.html
Tony Lee Glenn That IS an interesting video, though it left me kinda hungry! The speech rhythm there, and some of the vowels, hardly sound American, to a non-American, anyway.
I love a good Appalachian accent. Alabama and Florida panhandle accents are all nasally and ugly.
Yes, Southern. Beautifully Southern.
At first I thought he was really speaking Scottish
Natalia he was speaking scottish😂 do you mean you thought he was speaking Gaelic.
*Gaelic mate
Are you American?
offzany __0 yes
@@danarasworld nothing wrong with that but I can't say I'm surprised
I canna unders stahnd yah but we love your accent . Kidding we can piece it together what you talking about but listening to you it reminds us of our dear friend Effie
I've got more difficulty understanding the American.
Melrose Abbey houses Robert the Bruce's heart which was taken there after coming under attack by Moors in Spain and on the way to the Holy Land by James Douglas. Bruce in common with many knights of the period wanted his heart taken to the Holy Land on death.
Wow what a special person.
I watched this video when i was in italy and I didn’t understand anything, now i live in Scotland since 3 month and i can understand what he said
I just love this accent. I could listen to this guy for hours, just talking about anything :)
How they understand each other ??
Scottish accent is wonderful
Living in west Virginia and being around thick accents I can honestly understand everything he says lol
West Virginia and most of Appalachia was settled primarily by Scots-Irish and people from the border country where this fella is from
But the face of pore Scot when American started talking at 0:55...he was like: "wtf is this now"...priceless
Actually, the interviewer's accent (southern) is related to/ descended from Scottish & Irish, as the Scots-Irish (Irish people who temporarily lived in Scotland before coming to America) who came to the Appalacians are responsible for how people from TN, KY, and other southern states talk (especially strong dialects of the Appalachian Mountains). Before I knew this as a fact, I wondered about it, due to the older generations of my family from TN having such a strong dialect that I could barely understand them, and it sounded very much like Scottish to me - and sure enough, their dialect & accents are truly linked to Scottish & Irish.
been studying english for like 14 years now, I use english-speaking media every single day and I can't remember the last time since I genuinely did not understand what someone was saying
Funny how that works. Sometimes where the accent sound is placed in a word can really throw you off, and tends to make you have to really think to understand what is being said.
My wife is from west Virginia she's Scottish and Ulster Scot heritage she understood alot of this guy's speaking. Awesome 👌
Every word I read in the comments sounds Scottish to me now
Ye just type how ye speak here nae messin