Scottish Accent Part 3
Scottish Accent Video Glaswegian – I have noticed a lot of people impersonate the Scottish accent or a lot of people that do not understand a word we are saying, purely because the Scottish dialect is very different and that our Scottish accent can come across quite strong that it may confuse people. So I came up with these serious of videos to help people better understand the Scottish accent and dialect There are various different Scottish dialects up and down the country, from Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and various other parts of Scotland like Ayrshire. The Scottish accent varies from place to place you visit in Scotland as we don’t all talk the same way. You will find despite Glasgow being one hour train distance from Edinburgh, the difference in both accent’s is pretty strong. There are certain words they perhaps may use that we Glaswegian people use different terminology, an example would be that Glaswegians say wean of a child, whereas Edinburgh, they say Bairn. Same applies for both Dundee and Aberdeen. You will however find that there is a common Scottish dialect throughout Scotland, despite the different terminology for certain things and different Scottish accent varieties. Examples of common Scottish dialect would be, ‘Cannae’, meaning ‘Cannot’, or ‘didnae’ for ‘did not’. A very common Scottish word for the word ‘know’, to ‘know’ someone, is to ‘ken’ someone. Glasgow tends to be the only part of Scotland I find that rarely if ever, uses the word ‘ken …