I'm a nurse. I took care of a patient once who was in for suspicion of stroke. one of the main symptoms was garbled speech. I went in to meet him. His speech wasn't garbled. he was just very, very Scottish.
I remember hearing a Scottish doctor telling a tale of when he was in training, and visiting the US. He was visiting a mental health hospital, and they asked if he'd like to meet some of their patients. They said they had a british patient who seemed to be so depressed that they were about to operate on his brain. The doctor met with him and told the American doctors, "he isn't depressed he's just scottish!" They can be quite a dour people, though very witty too. :)
Similar story….I’m a nurse and once I had a nursing home patient they told me was aphasic (garbled speech) from a stroke. Nope, she was speaking FRENCH! She’d reverted to her first language before she emigrated from France to the US at 3 or 4. I happened to be living with a family that spoke French at home, and I recognized it (although I don’t speak French).
aye, me tae!!!....ah tell ye tho....if somebody pisses ye aff, a' ye huv tae dae is jist let it rip at them, and mair often than no, ye walk away the feckin winner!!!......we arra peepel!!!!
Now I know what Canadians thought about me when I first emigrated to Alberta. The first day I was working in the oil company computer room a Canadian guy came to the window asked me to put a tape on the system, I said “fine no problem, get right on it”. 5 Minutes later I get a call from the company help desk, who just happened to be “My future ex wife” who asked me what I had said to the guy at the window, she said that’s it?, I said yes. She then said to me “I THINK YOU SHOULD TRY SPEAKING SLOWER” to the Canadians lol.💂♂️🪖⛑️🏴🇨🇦
As an American that does tech support over the phone, to help with UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand calls, I watch a lot of programming on Acorn and BritBox. However one needs to be fully awake, have a cup of strong coffee, and stop multitasking when you get a call from the Glasgow region.
This was so funny and, being a Scot, I understood every word. People outside of Scotland may not know this but, on the last Census form it asked "Do you Speak/Understand/are able to Write in Scots". I wanted to write "Och, aye". I found that just as hilarious.
I'm English born and bred but I've lived near Glasgow for 7 years. I must admit for the first 12 months I pretty much just smiled and nodded when anyone said something to me. It does take a while to dial into a Glaswegian accent, especially after the pubs kick out. To be fair though, I'm reliably informed that the rest of Scotland has trouble understanding a drunk Glaswegian too 🙂
Nod n smile got me through first few months in N Ireland...quickly figured out the drunker they get the easier to understand. Total opposite fae Glaswegian. Rab C is scarily accurate 😂
I played in pipe bands since I was a kid. I'm 70+. The accent is pretty scary but eventually your brain computes. When you get folks from the off shore islands, especially in the north, good luck!
@@mlee6050 IKR, where are the itty bitty pieces of chocolate in an Oreo (so called) _Cookie'?🤣_ When a Brit buys a cookie, they expect something with chocolate bits. Not whatever an Oreo is!
Its no' Glaswegian, sounds more like a teuchter accent but it's no' bad, just fae the wrong place. Odd that James had to put on a fake scots accent though, sounds contrived
James is down to earth. He patiently took photos with our drama and art and design students at Halbeath Carnegie College Edinburgh. We proudly displayed the photos for years! Legend!
Hahaa Obviously diverted south, probably originally going to Norway or somat and turned around. Actually, I bet a thick Swedish accent is easier to understand 😁
There are Scottish accents are there is a Glasgow accent. Glaswegian is the hardest to understand. True story Liverpool and Scotland football legend Kenny Dalglish was in a lift in Spain when a woman got in. As it was going down she spoke to him about the weather, after he replied in his Glaswegian accent she said “ oh, sorry, I thought you spoke English “
Broad Aberdonian (‘the Doric’) is a fucking nightmare for the uninitiated too. I went to uni in Aberdeen and it took me about a week to realise the ladies serving our tea in the canteen weren’t foreign. And I’m Scottish! I lived there for seven years and even at the end I could be in a taxi and have absolutely no idea what the driver was rabbiting on about 😂
Aww I loved that! Hilarious, I’m from wales, I understood all of the Scottish…but when they said entering Welsh airspace I just couldn’t wait to here how they tackled that…🤣🤣🤣 they just strung a load of sounds together, brilliant 👏👏🤣
I was laughing as well, I’m German, but my husband is Welsh, so I understood the Scottish but the Welsh was hilarious. And I speak more Welsh than my husband does 😮😂❤
There used to be a Scottish comedy sketch show on British tv called ‘Absolutely’ and one of my favourite skits from it was called ‘come to Stonybridge’ it was really weird and funny.
I grew up in Canada but had Scottish parents and went to Scotland quite a few times so I understood every world lol. When I was a kid in the 70’s me and my older brothers would listen to our dads Billy Connolly records.
You can tell it's an American skit. Scotland didn't have bagpipes playing with a mouthful of shortbread and Wales didn't have random sheep noises coming from under the desk with the controller fanning himself with a drooping leek. We don't do things in half measures over this side of the Atlantic. ;)
This is my first time watching your channel. Loved this skit. I’m from Scotland (Perth) and Kate Mackinnon’s accent is a very cultured Glaswegian accent. Done very well. My Dad was welsh and yes, their accent is great too! When you go to Scotland and Wales, the signs are posted in both Scottish and Welsh Gaelic. They do love their “L’s”. Hahahaha. Great job, glad you enjoyed it .
When I’m trying to explain to Canadians WHY!!!!! I don’t use SIRI in my vehicle, or Google/Alexi? At home, I just send them the 2 Scottish guys in the elevator video now. They just nod their heads at me after that. Since I first found that video pre-Covid I started doing my eleeeeeeeeven thingy, I have a few self videos of me in a train, and an almost empty aircraft (19 + 20 March 2020) as we were trying to get out of the UK in March 2020. Arrived in Scotland on 12, partners daughter started emailing her on 14th saying truedump was closing the Canadian borders. I got an email from Air Canada and Westjet on the 14th telling me our return to Canada flights on the 27th had been cancelled. We managed to get out from Heathrow with Lufthansa to Calgary Alberta on 20th March 2020. Happy days Eleeeeeven. 😂😂😂😂😂😎😎
I can confirm that some Scots speak like this, in fact I had an odd situation at work for several years. I live near Liverpool and my manager was a Scouser, we had a lad working with us who was from Fife. The Scouser and the Scot couldn’t understand a word of what each other was saying and I had to translate, I swear it was like one was speaking Chinese and the other was speaking Klingon. You mention the Isle of Man flag, the meaning behind it is quite a good one and something that an American can appreciate. The legs on the Isle of Man are positioned the way they are because no matter how far or with how much force you push them back, they will always remain standing.
agreed lots of dialects, like Doric up in Aberdeen. i'm half scots half french and live near Perth so understand the Fifers well, but even i canny understand Dundonian (Dundee) sometimes, which only a few miles up the road! lol. Ive got Scottish Traveller neighbours who i have to slow down and repeat what they're saying. Its the same in France, i speak with a southern French Dialect which has Catalonian words mixed in that Parisians dont understand.
@@frogscotch19 Quelle Histoire... a french in France watcher here born in the states having an american accent father language my mother was german so my mother language is german my most spoken language is French ( i have quite an Titi Parisian accent when ever i like to ) i challenged myself for about a year to learn a posh british accent on youtube hahaha and listen to all the english accents through history and around the world i enjoy it a lot and have so much fun ! learning, stumbling and having great laughs Tonight was so special and funny i only understood about 30 words Hilariou kate was easier for me to understand hello to all poly linguals and Humour lovers Liberty Equality Fraternity good night
As a Scot, Kate McKinnon is class in this. Accent is a bit off but still good. You should react to Mike Myers SNL bits on Scotland - “if it’s not Scottish it’s crap” Not many Scots have seen it and it’s hilarious. His take on Scottish people is very well observed imho - shrek etc. Think one of his parents were Scottish
Reminds me of a Glaswegian joke (you probably have to be British to get it) A Glaswegian walks into a cake shop in Glasgow and says to the shopkeeper. “I want to buy that cake - is it a pavlova or a meringue? “ The shopkeeper says “no you are right , it’s a pavlova"
I'm a Scottish so a wee bit biased. I LOVE James McAvoy- so versatile funny and one hell of an actor. 'Split' is insane ,his performane was pure dead brilliant!As for flags the Scottish Lion Rampant captures our culture, history and language perfectly!
After corresponding in English with a Scot from Glasgow for quite a while he would take a holiday on the continent of Europe. We would meet up. Since we were both very sny and witty in our written English we kinda thought it would be fun to finally meet. Oh my, I really didn’t understand him at all, had to ask him to repeat everything slowly multiple times (which kills any wittiness). He thought I was taken a piss but I honestly couldn't make out what he said. His accent, the speed and the lack of articulation, it sounded nothing like any English I had ever heard. We started texting each other sitting next to each other. And proceeded with some universal language where grunting is allowed.
My family is Scottish and ny brother moved down to South Wales and settled down and I've got 5 nephews and a niece. I phoned my brother the other night. My youngest nephew answered. I just said hello and he passed the phone to his sister and just said take the phone to Daddy. They haven't a clue what I'm saying and vice versa lol My brother has developed a Welsh accent but when he speaks to me or they come up on holiday he slips right back into his thick Fife accent without thought lol
I love the Scottish people and their language, I have Irish in my ancestry and love the lands across the the wee pond between My home of Nova Scotia (New Scotland) Canada and UK! Love them.❤
Saturday Night Live was the BOMB back in the 70's. You'd have to pay me to watch it now. I think the last show I watched had Dana Carvey & Eddie Murphy. That's been a minute....🤣🤣🤣
As a Geordie, Me too. When I was younger, living in the south east of England there was a guy from Paisley, when he was drunk, I had to translate, no one else had a clue what he was saying.
I'm from near wolverhampton and I got all of it no problem. But I loved Limmys show, Chewin the Fat and Burnistoun when they were on telly, and Rab C Nesbitt as a kid, so my ears are well tuned to Scottish accents
@davebrown6552 Lmfao am directly across the Clyde fae Paisley and a still huv trouble wi their accent 😂 Ye know yer too far south when yev got a Geordie interpreter.😂👌
@daved2352 Ye might no hear this often by my favourite English accent is the Black country and Brummie. Used to go out wi a lassie fae your general neck ay the woods and loved the way she spoke "bab".😁👌
I was in Ireland for a wedding. I went to a pub for a Guinness and was laughing my ass off listening to the boys telling stories and jokes. Had a great time. Didn’t understand a word.
Apparently parts of Germany can understand Scots better than the English or the US, because The Scots accent originally comes from old Northumbrian English which was a Germanic lanuage :)
By the way James McAvoy is a brilliant actor. Did you see him in "The Last King of Scotland" If you have not seen it thoroughly recommend it. You will be able to understand his accent promise you!
I watched the SNL sketch of this before I found your reaction. The first time, I was laughing so hard I couldn't see because of the tears in my eyes. Unfortunately, that usually only happens once: the first time you listen to something. But watching your reaction, it happened all over again! Thank you so much; I needed that! ❤❤❤
This is absolutely hilarious. 😂 If you ever make it to Scotland, you will be made very welcome even if you can't understand us especially here in Glasgow. 😂 🏴
You’re most welcome in the states as well! Can’t wait to get there! I dream of getting to Scotland. Sure wish house swapping was something folks still did.
I thought they did the Scottish accent quite well. However, as a Welshman, the Welsh accent was below the lowest thing you can think of and then even lower! I didn’t expect them to speak Welsh but they could’ve attempted a Welsh accent speaking English. There are many Welsh accents (even when speaking English) and in South Wales there is a combined language called Wenglish. Look it up it’s amazing and yes I do speak a bit of Wenglish myself 😂
I know a lot of Americans who watch British tv shows and even some who watch BBC news. Monty Python was very popular. Most Americans understand British English as well or better than Brits understand some accents of American English.
i worked with someone for a few years and she told me she was best mates with James McAvoy at school. Didn't know that for years. Then now we're going to welsh Airports my Grandad lived in the same Village Tom Jones grew up in.
German here. I just realised, why Germans (including myself) love the fine people from Scotland so much. I understood everything James McAvoy said first time. („The brown doo-dah that looks like an Oreo cookie“) is so much more descriptive than the actual name for that knob.😅😅😅 We basically speak the same language.
True story.. I dated a very nice Scottish lad in my teens..in Australia, fresh from Glasgow. I couldn't work out why he kept saying "all over you"...realised later he was saying "I love you". 😊😊😊
I watched this clip the night when SNL aired it. I was literally in tears. When they patched over to Wales, I lost it completely, because I knew what was going to happen. When watching a movie starring Scots and sometimes Aussies on goes the subtitles
@@garymcatear822 It's been simplified down the generation's. It's now called 'the box'. Having to be a mind reader listening to your auld man, nearly everything was called "doo dah" or "hingmy". At least the big light is still the big light and going the messages is still going the messages.
There's a story (don't know if it's true or not) of an American pilot heading towards Scotland and he contacted air traffic control. They asked his location. He replied he was "Just west of ten mile island." They were puzzled by this but eventually realised on questioning him further on the map this was shown as 'IOM' which to anyone British is the Isle of Man (I.O.M.)
I grew up with my Grandmother, who was from Scotland... we lived in the US. Growing up I could always understand her, unless a telemarketer or bill collector called and she answered. She would lay the accent on so thick that we had no idea what she was saying, and she usually got hing up on.
We do speak quite fast and have different words from the rest of the UK. There may be a Scottish to English dictionary online. I have family in America who struggled when I spoke. My relatives in Northern Ireland and Australia who I met last year understood me!
And if you think this was comedy extreme, it was not. I used to be a sub-editor on a newspaper in Australia, and had a Scottish colleague usually sitting next to me, who was EXACTLY like this. I sat next to him every day for just over a year, and never once deciphered anything he said to me. He had red hair and consequently went by the nickname that all redhaired people get in Australia: "Bluey". Don't ask me why. But Bluey was a hoot. Sometimes I was sure he was just having me on. I am actually of Dutch origin, and I could give as good as I got, in Dutch, which was as much gobbledygook to him as his "English" was to me. Us trying to communicate became a bit of a comedy act in the newsroom and I have fond memories of Bluey.
I’m from Glasgow and I watched this years ago am so glad you found this I have English friend’s that couldn’t understand what he was saying until they lived hear for about a year
My mum and Grannie were Scottish and I continually had to translate for my friends what they were saying, especially my Grannie, she was a proper Glaswegian with a very thick accent. Of course I heard it all the time and could not understand why people couldn't understand them, but I was a kid and now I realise that they were very hard to understand if you weren't used to it.
Something I have noticed when travelling in Scotland that the further west you go the harder it is to understand what the hell they are saying. Example, when me and my kids travelled there in 2006 we landed in Glasgow and the guy at the car rental counter's accent was so bad I wasn't sure what I got but I think it was the extra insurance.
Her accent was nothing like a Glasgow accent. When I worked we had a Trustee from Glasgow and I could not understand a word he said. I had to keep asking him to repeat everything he said and I am from the UK.
I worked in Uk for few years and we had a Scottish wedding at hotel and I had to serve in bar. I could not understand one word they said. I said to english guys hey please help here and they said to me we dont understand them either lol
@jameshorner7816 I'm from East London so I have quite a strong accent; however my nan is Scottish and has retained her accent after all her years, so you lot would possibly struggle around ours!
@matty7474 As a native Glaswegian wi a broad accent now watered down a wee bit since moving to Norn Iron I worked in Docklands when it was being built and never had a bother wi any native Londoners accent, unless a wiz pissed, then it wiz a me problem no theirs.😂👍
I taught in Glasgow for a couple of years and had students Tharp needed an interpreter when one student came to my desk. It was a great education on the different accents in the country and I became really good at understanding and the part of the area they came from.
I used to work for a customer service centre which dealt with train complaints, compensation, inquiries etc. Any time I heard the Scottish accent through my headphones I'd be struck with fear 💥👂
I once rang customer services and an Asian lady was on the other end of the phone but she had a very strong Indian accent, few minutes in I said I am sorry I cannot understand you and she said would you like me to transfer you to a UK call handler so she did and he had a real strong Scottish accent --I hung up --lol----by the way no offense anybody
I'd say that MacAvoy's accent is more from the East Coast, probably Fife. Even other Fifers don't understand the Fife accent. As for the flags, the Scottish flag is the oldest existing national flag in the World (although it's in a bit of a dispute with Norway).
QUOTE....National flags. The flag of Denmark, the Dannebrog, is attested in 1478, and is the oldest national flag still in use. However,....When did England adopt the St George's cross? First adopted by Richard I of England during the 3rd Crusade, it was later established as part of the Royal Standard by Edward III in 1348. From then, the St. George's Cross began to be associated with England.
Many years ago I worked in tech support. I was on a call with our UK team in London with a customer in Glasgow. I had have the team in London translate for me. We all spoke English but didn't understand each other.
I'm a nurse. I took care of a patient once who was in for suspicion of stroke. one of the main symptoms was garbled speech. I went in to meet him. His speech wasn't garbled. he was just very, very Scottish.
That's hilarious 😂😂
I remember a Scottish lady telling her not-Scottish therapist she ‘couldnae stop greetin’ doctor’. He thought that was a very strange compulsion! 🤝 😂
I remember hearing a Scottish doctor telling a tale of when he was in training, and visiting the US. He was visiting a mental health hospital, and they asked if he'd like to meet some of their patients. They said they had a british patient who seemed to be so depressed that they were about to operate on his brain. The doctor met with him and told the American doctors, "he isn't depressed he's just scottish!" They can be quite a dour people, though very witty too. :)
I'm a nurse, too. I can relate to that. 🤣🤣🤣
Similar story….I’m a nurse and once I had a nursing home patient they told me was aphasic (garbled speech) from a stroke. Nope, she was speaking FRENCH! She’d reverted to her first language before she emigrated from France to the US at 3 or 4. I happened to be living with a family that spoke French at home, and I recognized it (although I don’t speak French).
As a Scottish person I understood every word James McAvoy said, which makes me realise how inaudible I must sound to Americans 😆
aye, me tae!!!....ah tell ye tho....if somebody pisses ye aff, a' ye huv tae dae is jist let it rip at them, and mair often than no, ye walk away the feckin winner!!!......we arra peepel!!!!
@@tartanrocker5926 Ummm, tae = too? 🤣🤣🤣
As a Canuck...I actually understood 80%, so I now know why friends constantly misunderstand me.
I worked for awhile with a Scott and rarely understood what he was saying, but it was so beautiful to listen to!
Now I know what Canadians thought about me when I first emigrated to Alberta. The first day I was working in the oil company computer room a Canadian guy came to the window asked me to put a tape on the system, I said “fine no problem, get right on it”. 5 Minutes later I get a call from the company help desk, who just happened to be “My future ex wife” who asked me what I had said to the guy at the window, she said that’s it?, I said yes. She then said to me “I THINK YOU SHOULD TRY SPEAKING SLOWER” to the Canadians lol.💂♂️🪖⛑️🏴🇨🇦
As a Glaswegian, i can confirm this to be inaccurate, they would have called the pilot a bawbag
He won't know what that means. It's the bag of skin that hold your balls.
@@pauljohnson1664😂😂😂😂
@@pauljohnson1664aka yer Maw
Or a tube!
@Floyd1138 As a fellow Glaswegian a wholeheartedly agree or furra wee throwback they coulda flung in a wee "fud".😂
As an American that does tech support over the phone, to help with UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand calls, I watch a lot of programming on Acorn and BritBox. However one needs to be fully awake, have a cup of strong coffee, and stop multitasking when you get a call from the Glasgow region.
Aye, if ye no concentrating, and ye dinna prepare, ye'll be up a shite creek wi'oot a paddle.
@@kc5402 lol... I think I read better than hearing it
This was so funny and, being a Scot, I understood every word. People outside of Scotland may not know this but, on the last Census form it asked "Do you Speak/Understand/are able to Write in Scots". I wanted to write "Och, aye". I found that just as hilarious.
I would have written "dinna ken"
@@marykuettner752 Or, Jings!
Crivens!
Help ma boab!
James McAvoy rewrote all the Scots dialogue in this sketch to make it more authentic 😃
It’s still all over the place.
@@David-cm4ok Scots dialogue written by Americans would have been much worse.
I'm English born and bred but I've lived near Glasgow for 7 years. I must admit for the first 12 months I pretty much just smiled and nodded when anyone said something to me. It does take a while to dial into a Glaswegian accent, especially after the pubs kick out. To be fair though, I'm reliably informed that the rest of Scotland has trouble understanding a drunk Glaswegian too 🙂
Nod n smile got me through first few months in N Ireland...quickly figured out the drunker they get the easier to understand. Total opposite fae Glaswegian. Rab C is scarily accurate 😂
Drunk Glaswegians have trouble understanding drunk Glaswegians,.
I had that problem when I first moved to Aberdeen especially when one woman asked me "Fa d'ya bide, hen?" I got the Hen part but not the rest
Dundee almost impossible scent.
I played in pipe bands since I was a kid. I'm 70+. The accent is pretty scary but eventually your brain computes. When you get folks from the off shore islands, especially in the north, good luck!
5:00 The amount of Brits screaming 'Oreo Cookie' right now... 🤷♀🤣
true!!! i was doing that
Same!
Yup.
Oregano cookie jk
I'm surprised with Oreo cookie as I'm like it's a biscuit
@@mlee6050 IKR, where are the itty bitty pieces of chocolate in an Oreo (so called) _Cookie'?🤣_
When a Brit buys a cookie, they expect something with chocolate bits. Not whatever an Oreo is!
As a Scot, I'd rate Kate McKinnons accent on a Scottish scal of "Pure shite" to "No bad" as "Awright ah suppose, ah've heard worse."
Aye me tae
Its no' Glaswegian, sounds more like a teuchter accent but it's no' bad, just fae the wrong place. Odd that James had to put on a fake scots accent though, sounds contrived
totally agree, her accent was pure pish.
Ken.
@@bobbell4461Translate to English isn’t working here. 😁
I'M CRACKING UP AS I'M SCOTTISH, WELSH AND IRISH!!!😂😂😂😂😂👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼😄😄😄😄😄😄
So am I, and 100% American.
I'm those and a few more besides!
Wow! The last time we saw three persons in one was 2000 years ago!
As a Finn who lived in the UK for almost a decade, this was effing funny. I first applied for a job in Northern Ireland. This is just hilarious!
I love listening to a Scotsman. Beautiful. I may not understand it but I love it.
James is down to earth. He patiently took photos with our drama and art and design students at Halbeath Carnegie College Edinburgh. We proudly displayed the photos for years! Legend!
Since when was Halbeath in Edinburgh? And its not even called Carnegie anymore, in like over a decade
The hardest thing to understand was how you'd leave Scottish airspace and go straight into Welsh airspace.. 😂
They somehow just skipped England 😂😂. Someone needs a Geography lesson.
They are relying on the American education system to make it plausible (as if they'd know where either country is)
Hahaa Obviously diverted south, probably originally going to Norway or somat and turned around.
Actually, I bet a thick Swedish accent is easier to understand 😁
The English were on strike! Somebody had to cover it.
If you fly from #Stranraer to #Bangor directly you’ll only go over the #IsleofMan, not England itself.
There are Scottish accents are there is a Glasgow accent. Glaswegian is the hardest to understand. True story Liverpool and Scotland football legend Kenny Dalglish was in a lift in Spain when a woman got in. As it was going down she spoke to him about the weather, after he replied in his Glaswegian accent she said “ oh, sorry, I thought you spoke English “
Broad Aberdonian (‘the Doric’) is a fucking nightmare for the uninitiated too. I went to uni in Aberdeen and it took me about a week to realise the ladies serving our tea in the canteen weren’t foreign. And I’m Scottish! I lived there for seven years and even at the end I could be in a taxi and have absolutely no idea what the driver was rabbiting on about 😂
@@clothilde1623😂😂
@@clothilde1623 Doonhamer speak takes some getting used to as well!
😂
@@clothilde1623 It's e mither tongue min. Fit like?😊
I used to work for the RAF and at the Scottish Air Traffic Control Centre. This is brilliant 😂
Oh what an amazing "coincidence" ya wee fanny.
@@papalaz4444244 🤣
@papalaz4444244 Savage man 😂😂😂
@@papalaz4444244 I was an assistant air traffic controller in my youth, and by an amazing coincidence I never got to work at Prestwick.
Don't you mean ya fud? 😂
I understood every word he said, and I'm English, but I suppose we are used to it, I also used to watch Rab C Nesbitt so that helps.
I understood like ~90%... as a german I see that as a success
Das ist sehr gut mein freund.
I loved Rab C Nesbitt when I was a little kid so I've never had trouble understanding Scots.
Daes a favour an run that by me agin, didnae quite understaun ye there ma man.😁
Loved Rab C! Hilarious but definitely strong accents
I am Welsh...and even I couldn't understand the Welsh guy in this sketch!
It was gibberish
@@robertfoulkes1832 tsk they should have got Barry Welsh in for the gig...
It wasn't actual Welsh that's why!
Have you ever seen “voice activated elevator in Scotland?” It’s one of the funniest things ever 🤣😂🤣
Can confirm.
Aww cumoan, gonnae no' dae that, man!😱🥃🤪😜
Not seen that one in a while, the elevator one was brilliant.
Agreed
Eleven.
Aww I loved that! Hilarious, I’m from wales, I understood all of the Scottish…but when they said entering Welsh airspace I just couldn’t wait to here how they tackled that…🤣🤣🤣 they just strung a load of sounds together, brilliant 👏👏🤣
I was laughing as well, I’m German, but my husband is Welsh, so I understood the Scottish but the Welsh was hilarious. And I speak more Welsh than my husband does 😮😂❤
@@nadineyorke3746 that’s fantastic well done! 😊
"they just strung a load of sounds together." Isn't that what the Welsh do in real life?
"This connection's gettin' cruncher than a bag of smashed crabs" 😂😂😂
There used to be a Scottish comedy sketch show on British tv called ‘Absolutely’ and one of my favourite skits from it was called ‘come to Stonybridge’ it was really weird and funny.
I used to love that 😂
Stoneybridge with its, its...
...stoney bridge.
Stoneybridge with a piano going across a floor ❤😂🎉
It was class.😂😂😂😂
Thankyou for reminding me of that! What a brilliant programmd! Did you watch Still Game too?
James McAvoy and Kate McKinnon as two McScottish Ayr McTraffic McTrollers! At least they've got the right surnames for the job!
James McEvoy is a Scot he puts on an American accent if taking part as one otherwise he speaks with a Scottish one.
He is a Scot, and a proud Scot. Not all actooors are American.
James McAvoy is Scottish. Born in Glasgow. His accent in this is authentic.
Toned down for American audiences though..
@@davefb I think he's putting it on a bit!
It’s all over the place. Definitely not Glaswegian.
@@David-cm4okhe's from Drumchapel which is in Glasgow
The shoulder thingy's are called Epaulette's.
Without the apostrophes
Manx person here, thank you for the shout out on our awesome flag ❤
I grew up in Canada but had Scottish parents and went to Scotland quite a few times so I understood every world lol. When I was a kid in the 70’s me and my older brothers would listen to our dads Billy Connolly records.
Billy Connolly! 😃😃😃
My Dad had Billy Collony records too💜🏴🌻
That welsh accent? It was terrible....but funny..yes we can take it...💜🏴🌻
@@stephenleader-s9x😂😂😂😂
You can tell it's an American skit. Scotland didn't have bagpipes playing with a mouthful of shortbread and Wales didn't have random sheep noises coming from under the desk with the controller fanning himself with a drooping leek.
We don't do things in half measures over this side of the Atlantic. ;)
This is my first time watching your channel. Loved this skit. I’m from Scotland (Perth) and Kate Mackinnon’s accent is a very cultured Glaswegian accent. Done very well. My Dad was welsh and yes, their accent is great too! When you go to Scotland and Wales, the signs are posted in both Scottish and Welsh Gaelic. They do love their “L’s”. Hahahaha. Great job, glad you enjoyed it .
There's one of two Scotts in a voice-activated elevator that's pretty funny, too.
I love that video. ELEVEN!
Love that!! They can't say eleven !! Lol
When I’m trying to explain to Canadians WHY!!!!! I don’t use SIRI in my vehicle, or Google/Alexi? At home, I just send them the 2 Scottish guys in the elevator video now. They just nod their heads at me after that. Since I first found that video pre-Covid I started doing my eleeeeeeeeven thingy, I have a few self videos of me in a train, and an almost empty aircraft (19 + 20 March 2020) as we were trying to get out of the UK in March 2020. Arrived in Scotland on 12, partners daughter started emailing her on 14th saying truedump was closing the Canadian borders. I got an email from Air Canada and Westjet on the 14th telling me our return to Canada flights on the 27th had been cancelled. We managed to get out from Heathrow with Lufthansa to Calgary Alberta on 20th March 2020. Happy days Eleeeeeven. 😂😂😂😂😂😎😎
My two friends in Munich showed me that when I was visiting last month. "ELEVEN" "ELEVEN"
I can confirm that some Scots speak like this, in fact I had an odd situation at work for several years.
I live near Liverpool and my manager was a Scouser, we had a lad working with us who was from Fife. The Scouser and the Scot couldn’t understand a word of what each other was saying and I had to translate, I swear it was like one was speaking Chinese and the other was speaking Klingon.
You mention the Isle of Man flag, the meaning behind it is quite a good one and something that an American can appreciate. The legs on the Isle of Man are positioned the way they are because no matter how far or with how much force you push them back, they will always remain standing.
haha ive seen you post this before. years ago
@@VeritySnatch yes it's another racist English troll shite
agreed lots of dialects, like Doric up in Aberdeen. i'm half scots half french and live near Perth so understand the Fifers well, but even i canny understand Dundonian (Dundee) sometimes, which only a few miles up the road! lol. Ive got Scottish Traveller neighbours who i have to slow down and repeat what they're saying. Its the same in France, i speak with a southern French Dialect which has Catalonian words mixed in that Parisians dont understand.
@@frogscotch19 Quelle Histoire... a french in France watcher here born in the states having an american accent father language my mother was german so my mother language is german my most spoken language is French ( i have quite an Titi Parisian accent when ever i like to ) i challenged myself for about a year to learn a posh british accent on youtube hahaha and listen to all the english accents through history and around the world i enjoy it a lot and have so much fun ! learning, stumbling and having great laughs Tonight was so special and funny i only understood about 30 words Hilariou kate was easier for me to understand hello to all poly linguals and Humour lovers Liberty Equality Fraternity good night
As a Scot, Kate McKinnon is class in this. Accent is a bit off but still good. You should react to Mike Myers SNL bits on Scotland - “if it’s not Scottish it’s crap” Not many Scots have seen it and it’s hilarious. His take on Scottish people is very well observed imho - shrek etc. Think one of his parents were Scottish
He went to uni in Edinburgh. That's why he can do the accent so well.
"The High Life" (Scottish sitcom about an airline) starred Alan Cumming before he became Nightcrawler in X-Men (X2/X-Men 2).
@avaggdu1 And a pure ball a shite it wiz an aw. "Oh dearrie me"💩😷😂
@@themoderntemplar1567it wasn’t that bad, wasn’t that good but seen worse 😂
Ooo deary me!
"This is Rosanna, Rosanna Danna, and this is " Not Necessarily The News".. who remember thi from early SNL front 1982
" Now my little Rosanne Rosanna Danna..."
I miss Gilda Radner. 😢
@@philjones3824 Gene Wilder too.
Hu Boomer Shout out from Wales! It wasn't an authentic looking Welsh traffic control centre - there were no sheep.
They keep them in the recreation room.
Baaad analogy 😂
@@jeremyhares979 I see what you did there! 😁
"Rheoli Traffig awyr Cymru yw hyn."
"WHAAAAT!!????" 😂
Reminds me of a Glaswegian joke (you probably have to be British to get it)
A Glaswegian walks into a cake shop in Glasgow and says to the shopkeeper.
“I want to buy that cake - is it a pavlova or a meringue? “
The shopkeeper says “no you are right , it’s a pavlova"
The brown doo-dah that looks like an Oreo cookie. That part I got after about the third repetition. LOL!
I'm a Scottish so a wee bit biased. I LOVE James McAvoy- so versatile funny and one hell of an actor. 'Split' is insane ,his performane was pure dead brilliant!As for flags the Scottish Lion Rampant captures our culture, history and language perfectly!
After corresponding in English with a Scot from Glasgow for quite a while he would take a holiday on the continent of Europe. We would meet up. Since we were both very sny and witty in our written English we kinda thought it would be fun to finally meet. Oh my, I really didn’t understand him at all, had to ask him to repeat everything slowly multiple times (which kills any wittiness). He thought I was taken a piss but I honestly couldn't make out what he said. His accent, the speed and the lack of articulation, it sounded nothing like any English I had ever heard. We started texting each other sitting next to each other. And proceeded with some universal language where grunting is allowed.
My family is Scottish and ny brother moved down to South Wales and settled down and I've got 5 nephews and a niece.
I phoned my brother the other night. My youngest nephew answered. I just said hello and he passed the phone to his sister and just said take the phone to Daddy. They haven't a clue what I'm saying and vice versa lol
My brother has developed a Welsh accent but when he speaks to me or they come up on holiday he slips right back into his thick Fife accent without thought lol
I love the Scottish people and their language, I have Irish in my ancestry and love the lands across the the wee pond between My home of Nova Scotia (New Scotland) Canada and UK! Love them.❤
Saturday Night Live was the BOMB back in the 70's. You'd have to pay me to watch it now. I think the last show I watched had Dana Carvey & Eddie Murphy. That's been a minute....🤣🤣🤣
It's crazy how cc closed caption can understand every word their saying. Check it out. It makes it ever funnier.
As a Scot (born in Glasgow), her accent was "bowfin" (stinking) 😂😂
Watch "Rab C Nesbitt". 👍😄
LOL, he'd be lost!
Now try Scottish Star Trek on Chewin' the Fat.
"Set phasers tae malky"
@alisonrodger3360 A forgot about that, Dundonians in space, quality sketches.😂
Chewing' the Fat.. "Taysiders in space". If Taysiders came from Glesgae 😂
Plus Two Doors Down on BBC I player.
omg, I forgot all about that sketch....I nearly hurt myself when I heard that!!😅🤣😅🤣😅
As a Scot I understood it perfectly 😂😂
As a Geordie, Me too. When I was younger, living in the south east of England there was a guy from Paisley, when he was drunk, I had to translate, no one else had a clue what he was saying.
I was married to a glaswegian and I understood every word he said the moaning twat lol
I'm from near wolverhampton and I got all of it no problem. But I loved Limmys show, Chewin the Fat and Burnistoun when they were on telly, and Rab C Nesbitt as a kid, so my ears are well tuned to Scottish accents
@davebrown6552 Lmfao am directly across the Clyde fae Paisley and a still huv trouble wi their accent 😂 Ye know yer too far south when yev got a Geordie interpreter.😂👌
@daved2352 Ye might no hear this often by my favourite English accent is the Black country and Brummie. Used to go out wi a lassie fae your general neck ay the woods and loved the way she spoke "bab".😁👌
I go to Scotland often I love there accent,I understood them quite well x it’s the best accent.
My grandmother is Welsh with a hard accent, and I can not stop laughing, lol 😆 🤣 😂
I was in Ireland for a wedding. I went to a pub for a Guinness and was laughing my ass off listening to the boys telling stories and jokes. Had a great time. Didn’t understand a word.
The translation power of Guinness is legendary. Drunkese is a universal language.
That was a good sketch…the heightened tension of the emergency situation only to get slammed with those accents….great
This was terrific in every way. The Scottish accent is difficult for everyone, even the Scottish as there are differences throughout.
A ken at! I spik Doric
Apparently parts of Germany can understand Scots better than the English or the US, because The Scots accent originally comes from old Northumbrian English which was a Germanic lanuage :)
By the way James McAvoy is a brilliant actor. Did you see him in "The Last King of Scotland" If you have not seen it thoroughly recommend it. You will be able to understand his accent promise you!
Loved that movie! Have the CD. Brilliant James and whole cast!
@@Joyce-bp6tn Agreed
I watched the SNL sketch of this before I found your reaction. The first time, I was laughing so hard I couldn't see because of the tears in my eyes. Unfortunately, that usually only happens once: the first time you listen to something. But watching your reaction, it happened all over again! Thank you so much; I needed that! ❤❤❤
This is absolutely hilarious. 😂 If you ever make it to Scotland, you will be made very welcome even if you can't understand us especially here in Glasgow. 😂 🏴
You’re most welcome in the states as well! Can’t wait to get there! I dream of getting to Scotland. Sure wish house swapping was something folks still did.
After he said looking oot the windy at the grun he lost me. 😂😂😂 Hilarious. 😂😂😂
Im from Belfast Norn Iron, our accent can be quite strong and similar to the scotts. Oh and our wee fleg is nice too 😉
Auchentoshan is a distillery. Their whisky must be selling well if they have their own 'plane station' 😂
i thought that too lol
That's hysterical as I work right beside the distillery at top of Dalmuir
I thought they did the Scottish accent quite well. However, as a Welshman, the Welsh accent was below the lowest thing you can think of and then even lower!
I didn’t expect them to speak Welsh but they could’ve attempted a Welsh accent speaking English. There are many Welsh accents (even when speaking English) and in South Wales there is a combined language called Wenglish. Look it up it’s amazing and yes I do speak a bit of Wenglish myself 😂
They had to make the welsh accent much worse to make the joke I think
Btw I like the thought of Wenglish😊
@@auntieannie983: I’m Welsh and have to agree. It was just a joke
Draig dwi. That's Welsh for "I am a dragon". In case you ever need to say that in Welsh.
Most Americans don't even understand English, so they've got no chance with a Scottish accent.
@101steel4 - I'm an American and I understood it.
@@reindeer7752 most 😉
As an Australian who grew up with a lot of UK telly it wasn't too hard to understand until they hit wales😅
I know a lot of Americans who watch British tv shows and even some who watch BBC news. Monty Python was very popular. Most Americans understand British English as well or better than Brits understand some accents of American English.
@@matthewcullen1298” lister open all communication channels and translate in all known languages…….including Welsh “🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂
I'm Irish and I understood every word.
i worked with someone for a few years and she told me she was best mates with James McAvoy at school. Didn't know that for years.
Then now we're going to welsh Airports my Grandad lived in the same Village Tom Jones grew up in.
German here. I just realised, why Germans (including myself) love the fine people from Scotland so much. I understood everything James McAvoy said first time. („The brown doo-dah that looks like an Oreo cookie“) is so much more descriptive than the actual name for that knob.😅😅😅 We basically speak the same language.
I was born in Canada my parents are Scottish, this video is exactly how my future husband and my dad sounded trying to communicate just hilarious
Kenan's first, "NO." was my favorite part.
True story.. I dated a very nice Scottish lad in my teens..in Australia, fresh from Glasgow. I couldn't work out why he kept saying "all over you"...realised later he was saying "I love you". 😊😊😊
I watched this clip the night when SNL aired it. I was literally in tears. When they patched over to Wales, I lost it completely, because I knew what was going to happen. When watching a movie starring Scots and sometimes Aussies on goes the subtitles
The brown doo dah that looks like an Oreo cookie. lol. Anything's a doo dah. Like your remote control - pass me the doo dah.
Or in the West Country everything be 'e or 'im
Crazy talk, everyone knows the remotes called the doofah.
@@donmongoose Naw it iiznae, it's called a 'hing'. Everyhing is called a hing in Glezga.
F***ing hingmy 😂@@garymcatear822
@@garymcatear822
It's been simplified down the generation's. It's now called 'the box'.
Having to be a mind reader listening to your auld man, nearly everything was called "doo dah" or "hingmy".
At least the big light is still the big light and going the messages is still going the messages.
"Scotsmen stuck in a voice recognition lift" a sketch from years ago...much funnier
There's a story (don't know if it's true or not) of an American pilot heading towards Scotland and he contacted air traffic control. They asked his location. He replied he was "Just west of ten mile island." They were puzzled by this but eventually realised on questioning him further on the map this was shown as 'IOM' which to anyone British is the Isle of Man (I.O.M.)
I grew up with my Grandmother, who was from Scotland... we lived in the US. Growing up I could always understand her, unless a telemarketer or bill collector called and she answered. She would lay the accent on so thick that we had no idea what she was saying, and she usually got hing up on.
Brilliant laugh, well done.....there are so many different accents within short distances in UK
I'd give Cate McKinnon an 7 outta 10. She sounds like a Tueskster! Bhahahaha 😂
We do speak quite fast and have different words from the rest of the UK. There may be a Scottish to English dictionary online. I have family in America who struggled when I spoke. My relatives in Northern Ireland and Australia who I met last year understood me!
There's a Dundonian for beginners book
And if you think this was comedy extreme, it was not. I used to be a sub-editor on a newspaper in Australia, and had a Scottish colleague usually sitting next to me, who was EXACTLY like this. I sat next to him every day for just over a year, and never once deciphered anything he said to me. He had red hair and consequently went by the nickname that all redhaired people get in Australia: "Bluey". Don't ask me why. But Bluey was a hoot. Sometimes I was sure he was just having me on. I am actually of Dutch origin, and I could give as good as I got, in Dutch, which was as much gobbledygook to him as his "English" was to me. Us trying to communicate became a bit of a comedy act in the newsroom and I have fond memories of Bluey.
Wales was supposedly the Welsh language not an accent so more of that wouldve been pointless
It certainly wasn't Welsh, it was just gibberish. Didn't even sound slightly like Welsh.
Probably should have just started singing considering the Welsh choral tradition.
I’m from Glasgow and I watched this years ago am so glad you found this I have English friend’s that couldn’t understand what he was saying until they lived hear for about a year
My mum and Grannie were Scottish and I continually had to translate for my friends what they were saying, especially my Grannie, she was a proper Glaswegian with a very thick accent. Of course I heard it all the time and could not understand why people couldn't understand them, but I was a kid and now I realise that they were very hard to understand if you weren't used to it.
When i lived in England my first job was working in Insurance for car scheme in Scotland.....it was a nightmare for snotty nosed 16 year.
3:18 The word you were needing to use was epaulettes.
Something I have noticed when travelling in Scotland that the further west you go the harder it is to understand what the hell they are saying. Example, when me and my kids travelled there in 2006 we landed in Glasgow and the guy at the car rental counter's accent was so bad I wasn't sure what I got but I think it was the extra insurance.
Her accent was nothing like a Glasgow accent. When I worked we had a Trustee from Glasgow and I could not understand a word he said. I had to keep asking him to repeat everything he said and I am from the UK.
Not a bad Edinburgh accent though.
@@davebox588yeah but that's a kind of gay English accent
@@papalaz4444244LOL, a Glaswegian workmate used to say Edinburgh was "All fur coat and no knickers". I couldn't possibly comment.
Several years ago I went to England and Scotland to visit friends. I couldn't even understand a lot of people in England (Bolton area).
I worked in Uk for few years and we had a Scottish wedding at hotel and I had to serve in bar. I could not understand one word they said. I said to english guys hey please help here and they said to me we dont understand them either lol
Really? I'm English and I have never had a problem understanding Scottish people. Now cocknies on the other hand are a completely different matter.
@jameshorner7816 I'm from East London so I have quite a strong accent; however my nan is Scottish and has retained her accent after all her years, so you lot would possibly struggle around ours!
Yes I suspect the english guys was just being funny and left me t struggle.@@jameshorner7816
@matty7474 As a native Glaswegian wi a broad accent now watered down a wee bit since moving to Norn Iron I worked in Docklands when it was being built and never had a bother wi any native Londoners accent, unless a wiz pissed, then it wiz a me problem no theirs.😂👍
"The burgundy thingummyjig..give ot a wee tug! " 😅
As a Kiwi working on a campsite near Glasgow, i dreaded every day having to deal with the locals.😅
@DomingoDeSantaClara A campsite near Glesga...? You meaning Blackhill?😂😂😂
I taught in Glasgow for a couple of years and had students Tharp needed an interpreter when one student came to my desk. It was a great education on the different accents in the country and I became really good at understanding and the part of the area they came from.
I used to work for a customer service centre which dealt with train complaints, compensation, inquiries etc. Any time I heard the Scottish accent through my headphones I'd be struck with fear 💥👂
Awesome. You’re right: “it sums up American ears”.😂 James McAvoy is brilliant in this.
I once rang customer services and an Asian lady was on the other end of the phone but she had a very strong Indian accent, few minutes in I said I am sorry I cannot understand you and she said would you like me to transfer you to a UK call handler so she did and he had a real strong Scottish accent --I hung up --lol----by the way no offense anybody
I don't know how or why your channel came up on my feed...but I'm glad it did.🤣 Great stuff.🤟🇺🇸💙💯
That's why call centres employ Scottish ,no one understands them ,they never get a resolution 😂
aye very good you racist Nazi GB News shite
@roymillsjnr5172 Watch oot boys we've a bona fide comedian here.🙄
DooDad that looks like an OREO cookie! LOL
I'd say that MacAvoy's accent is more from the East Coast, probably Fife. Even other Fifers don't understand the Fife accent. As for the flags, the Scottish flag is the oldest existing national flag in the World (although it's in a bit of a dispute with Norway).
QUOTE....National flags. The flag of Denmark, the Dannebrog, is attested in 1478, and is the oldest national flag still in use.
However,....When did England adopt the St George's cross?
First adopted by Richard I of England during the 3rd Crusade, it was later established as part of the Royal Standard by Edward III in 1348. From then, the St. George's Cross began to be associated with England.
I used to live in Scotland and I still miss the way they speak. I loved learning the patter.
Ok that was freakin hilarious. This, and Robin Williams bit about Scottish and you die laughing
Many years ago I worked in tech support. I was on a call with our UK team in London with a customer in Glasgow. I had have the team in London translate for me. We all spoke English but didn't understand each other.