9 Difficult Scottish & Irish Accents You’ll NEVER Guess

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๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Think you know your accents and you're ready for a challenge? Let's go! I've carefully selected 9 Scottish and Irish accents and dialects that I'm absolutely certain you'll NEVER Guess. Let us know in the comments what you got right.

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  • @storylearning says:

    Ready for another accent challenge? https://youtu.be/jTViP7QoW0k?si=vnJQmxHS5GF327kt

    • @gallowglass2630 says:

      The Northern irish segment was very lazy .Liam Neeson has a rural county antrim accent and Jamie dornan has a north county down accent totally different accents

    • @KGTiberius says:

      ๐Ÿ“ ๐Ÿ‡ป๐Ÿ‡ฎ Iโ€™d love to see an analysis of the Lesser Antillean Caribbean. Here in St Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands the language/dialect/accent is Crucian. While we can tell if someone is from one island to the next, much is mutually understandable. SOCA music carries us all from Trinidad through to the U.S. Virgin Islands. Sample music of Machel Montano (Mr. Fete, Happiest Man Alive), Kes (Hello, Savanna Grass), Pressure (Virgin Islands Nice), Baby Bells Riddim (Good Vibes Only), etc.

    • @KGTiberius says:

      Missed the last two, nailed the rest. Surprised Manx wasnโ€™t in the mix!

    • @storylearning says:

      Manx was not forgotten! Check it out here: https://youtu.be/atjQLPMZ4jc

  • @gavinstuart3446 says:

    I live 10 mins away from buckie, and Doric is spoken alot in the surrounding areas, keith, elgin and people speak it do varying degrees, but you just cant use it when speaking with others, i was also in school when it was discouraged this has now changed thankfully. I think even the scottish are flabbergastered when they hear doric. The causal greeting commonl used is “Fit like iday” = how are you

    • @McConnachy says:

      Look at the clues, nearly every town, city, village, farm in Scotland has a Gaelic name, thatโ€™s the origins of Scotland. Doric / Scots is a language of an English base, but itโ€™s closer to Gaelic than you might think. Example, English; I donโ€™t like potatoes. Scots / Doric; cannae tholl tatties. Gaelic; Cha toll leum buntata. Doric is kind of a mixture of 2 entirely different languages

    • @gavinstuart3446 says:

      @@McConnachy scandanavian influence to, Bairn / barn in norwegian and theres other examples also

  • @spacelab777 says:

    The difference between dialects and accents are very apparent in Dundee where I am from. The older generation, sadly dying out, speak with a very distinct Dundee dialect, whereas the younger generation it is more of an accent. Both recognisable as Dundonian but many differences. The transition from dialect to accent is from words that are distinct from English to English words said with a Dundonian tilt. In Aberdeen 60 miles further up north the Doric dialect is completely different. There is actually a comedy film fully in Doric ‘One Day removals’ available on YouTube that is worth a watch.

  • @ksrt2654 says:

    Great video!! American here. Always have had an affinity for UK and Irish accents. This was very fun. I only got Glasgow and Dublin correct!

    • @thevis5465 says:

      The UK is not a legitimate state. I am Scottish, not british.

    • @donnyrogers1445 says:

      @@thevis5465 SNP haven’t gotten that far yet mate haha.

    • @thevis5465 says:

      @@donnyrogers1445 We voted yes in 2014, it was English people living here that pushed the vote to a no as they make up 10% of the population.
      The union was never democratic, we were forced into it by our wealthy elite when England enacted the alien act and and placed multiple debilitating trade embargoes on Scotland.

      The fact you think it is somehow legitimate and decomcratic just shows how brainwashed you are by your pedo cult of a monarchy and your “government” which is in reality just a CIA lapdog (see the coup of Gough Whitlam in 1975.)

    • @ksrt2654 says:

      @@thevis5465 Humblest apologies! Shouldโ€™ve fact checked before posting.

    • @scunner6828 says:

      Don’t apologise. โ€‹@@ksrt2654 He’s talking about his feelings not facts!

  • @londongael414 says:

    15/20 I had little difficulty with most of these, but one or two of the Shetlandic clips absolutely sounded like a completely different language. Fun game, and lovely to hear all these speakers and learn a little about what languages fed into their speech. Good job, Olly!

    • @cleanthe3276 says:

      I watch the tv show “Shetland” , I don’t know if their accents are completely accurate but I can understand almost everything. I didn’t feel it was the same here ๐Ÿค”

  • @samuelazura7334 says:

    Try watching this with automatic generated subtitles ๐Ÿ˜‚

  • @peterwilding1203 says:

    Great fun! I wasn’t much good at the guessing, but I knew (and use) some of the vocab expressions you chose. (Australia)

  • @anthonyhind1308 says:

    Got them all!But I’m Irish and ma da wiz fae Glesca๐Ÿ˜

  • @deirdrebeecher3508 says:

    Yeah I’m from Cork, but I’m rural so I have a completely different set of slang from the City. Was in the pub once with a newly arrived English college and there were some Northsiders at the table next door. He would not believe me that they were Cork born and bred. He thought they were speaking some hybrid Polish/Irish accent.
    If you ever want a real laugh, get a Cork person to speak Italian words. There is something about the way we draw out our vowels which makes us absolutely mangle Italian.

    • @mikesavage8793 says:

      Yep, rural Cork myself, different slang and the farther west you go a completely different accent. I’m about as south and west as you can go.

  • @user-hu6lr3vr7g says:

    I am Scottish and I don’t understand how anyone could mistake an Irish for a Scottish accent vice vera even when talking in a strong dialect! It honestly baffles me! You can hear the distinct Scottish accent despite the dialect.

    • @coreyc1685 says:

      I agree but with one exception. I’m from the north of Ireland and I confuse north Antrim accents for Scottish sometimes. Lots of Scots moved to that area during the plantation of Ulster and completely changed the accent. They have a dialect they call Ulster Scots. I can usually pinpoint it after a sentence or two but at first it can be difficult.

    • @cleanthe3276 says:

      Do you mean for a native English speaker ? I’m not and it wasn’t easy at all ! Considering the number of accents in both countries, it can be easily confusing ๐Ÿ™‚

    • @geordiewishart1683 says:

      Corey, how come you meet Antrim folk in the north of Ireland?

      Are they on holiday in Donegal?

      Unless you mean you are in Northern Ireland?

      If so, just say so.

    • @bumarse6667 says:

      โ€‹@@geordiewishart1683Gimp

    • @edenjay406 says:

      If your from the UK and a native speaker it’s easy but people from further afield often get them confused, similarly with Americans thinking Welsh people or Liverpudlians are from Australia lol

  • @Guildofarcanelore says:

    Here’s a story for you. Its 2010, I’m in Kandahar Afghanistan in a line to get into a DFAC.(Dining FACility) Behind me two soldiers are having a conversation and I’m trying to figure out where they are from without looking. Estonia..? Belgium..? When we get to the door, to satisfy my curiosity I hold it open and let them go it.
    Two Scottish soldiers…speaking English.

  • @TheUffeess says:

    It’s funny that as a Swede, I understood most of the Scottish dialects.๐Ÿ™‚

  • @rsfaeges5298 says:

    LOVED this! Intriguing & Delightful.

  • @steviebrd1065 says:

    I’m from Northern Ireland and my wife is from Aberdeen. Her grandmother had a strong doric accent, which I couldn’t understand. To be fair, she had no idea what I was saying either.

  • @ballybunion9 says:

    “Go ‘way outta that!” is a Dublin expression? ๐Ÿคจ I’ve heard it plenty of times in Kerry.

  • @0KeepRockin0 says:

    The Scots Leid is a language. NOT a dialect of English. Both Scots and English developed from the same ancestor “Old English”. So they are sister languages. Doric and Glaswegian are Scots dialects.

  • @James-hy8zs says:

    The influence of Yiddish upon American English is quite profound too: Schmutz (stain or dirt) Frech (cheeky or rude) …the list goes on

  • @w33burd says:

    I LOVE that you included Caithness- many fellow Scots donโ€™t even recognise us as being Scottish and were frequently confused with Irish. The man in the video sounded exactly as I remember my old Granda used to sound, definitely from the West of the county Iโ€™d say- losh, yeโ€™ll want til wash yer loogs oot if ye hear a Weeker (someone from Wick) speak, now โ€˜atโ€™s a foosum accent! ๐Ÿคฃ

    Whilst the accent has sadly become somewhat diluted since the 50โ€™s, especially in the West of the county due to a huge influx of settlers when the fast reactor was built, many people do still encourage their kids to learn Caithness dialect, and it is the cutest thing ever, to hear a wee bairnie speaking it. ๐Ÿฅฐ

    Iโ€™m from Caithness and my husband is Glaswegian and Iโ€™d say our accents have definitely rubbed off on each other over time. As for the kids- the oldest spoke Caithness with a slight Glasgow twang on some words, more-so now sheโ€™s studying in Glasgow; the youngest was and still is pure Caithness. ๐Ÿ˜„

  • @CezTV says:

    As an Irish person I can tell you that banjaxed is not exclusively Northern Irish, it’s used in the republic as well. Does my head in as well

  • @davidmiller3709 says:

    We went from Belfast on a holiday to Lake Garda with the blue rinse brigade back in 2014, the tour manager on the coach trips was Misha from Napoli. Returning to the coach parked outside the walls of Verona after a guided walk, the halt and the lame were strung out behind. โ€œYou know, I pride myself on the regional accents of Britain,โ€ she said turning and looking back. โ€œBut do you see the man with the walking stick, I cannot follow what he is saying at all.โ€ โ€œOh heโ€™s from Greenock, we donโ€™t understand him either.โ€

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