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[@kumasenlac5504]

2:42 Go on ! Yourself ! is a perfectly reasonable cry of encouragement. In Scots it comes out as 'Gaun Yersel'.

[@tonysutton6559]

My favourite has got to be bawbag. I used to walk into our Glasgow office to be greeted with something like "Hoo's it gaun Sutton ye bawbag". That was just the young lasses, the men were even worse. My wife first met the Scottish "ladies" at a colleagues wedding and couldn't understand a word they were saying later in the evening as they got increasingly drunk but I managed as they had dragged me out drinking every time I stopped over in Glasgow or when we all met up at the London office. I'm sure that the Scottish girls partners were thinking the same about me with my broad Black Country coming out more and more as each pint was sunk.

[@dennisbranch6920]

I'm from Denmark but lived in England 42 years. The Scottish language has a few references to Danish. Ken comes from the Danish word kenner, which means know.

[@nevermindmyname9153]

A golfer is cupping his hand to scoop water from a Highland Burn on the St Andrews course. A groundskeeper shouts: 'Dinnae drink tha waater! Et's foo ae coo's shite an pish!' The golfer replies: 'My Good fellow, I'm from England, could you repeat that for me, in English!?' The keeper replies: 'I said, use two hands - you'll spill less"

[@nathancarr3916]

ahahahaha

[@roddymcniven8734]

Dinnae gie up the day joab mate

[@davidricks7128]

This is one of my favourite sayings x - It's a braw bricht moonlit nicht the nicht means - it’s a lovely, bright moonlit night tonight.

[@AMANDARAEUK]

I never would have guessed that lol

[@joemyers5302]

A good way to get yourself used to the Scottish dialect is to watch Trainspotting, then read the book which is written in phonetic Scots. Watching the film first gets your eye in and makes the book easier.

[@nathancarr3916]

read the book when it came out years ago..was brill..read the other 2 as well and then saw the movie

[@colibri67]

Visit North East Scotland, particularly the farming communities between Aberdeen and Peterhead, where they speak the Doric dialect. Even the Aberdonians struggle to understand some of it. But one thing is certain, they have a fantastic sense of humour in amongst all of their banter. Also superb are the fishing folk along the Morayshire coast.

[@chriscoombes6751]

A Scot I used to work with many years ago (briefly!) was often out drinking round the town (& then often not making it into work after, hence 'briefly'!). When he did come in after a particularly heavy session, he'd often say -- & apologies to any Scots if I'm not typing it right! -- ''I was oot ma nut!'' or ''proper steamin!'' Anyway: better go - I can feel an air beige coming on! 😮😂

[@AMANDARAEUK]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@EmperorSmith]

"Guan Yersel" Translation "Go On Yourself". The same meaning as "Go You!" in American.

[@JUANKERR2000]

As an ex-patriot Midlander who's lived just south of Newcastle upon Tyne for some 40-odd years I am amazed at just how many of these Jockisms I know.

[@celticguy197531]

My mum used to say "Don't come running to me if you break your neck" or the ever fearsome one was "I will take my hand off of your face if you don't shut up". Still miss her to this day

[@nathancarr3916]

ahahaha..thats hilarious

[@celticguy197531]

@@nathancarr3916 it wasn't at the time lol it bloody hurt lol

[@nathancarr3916]

@@celticguy197531 "I will take my hand off of your face if you don't shut up"... had to giggle...i'm from lancs.. never heard that one before

[@celticguy197531]

@@nathancarr3916 quite was or is still quite common in Glasgow lol

[@chilicrab5047]

Ill watch your comments....... your smile and laughter....... thats it..... glad youre happy doing what you do!

[@AMANDARAEUK]

Thanks! 😊😊

[@Aswaguespack]

I’ll second that remark as well!

[@eamonnclabby7067]

@@Aswaguespack thirded...not sure if that is a real word..but here goes anyway...

[@soulmanlionheart3934]

Also in Norn Iron.

[@AMANDARAEUK]

👍🏻

[@jeanlongsden1696]

Billy Connelly made up his own PC swearing that you could say in front of children .... gettyfa ya bassa, I bet you can guess the translation. lol

[@cuthbert246]

Never heard of most of these but they are brilliant, really funny, thanks for the upload.

[@AMANDARAEUK]

Welcome 😊👍🏻

[@davidgreene805]

Gaun yersel = 'go on yourself' squashed up and with a bit of Scottish flavour added

[@iancomputerscomputerrepair8944]

Amanda, I loved the snort reaction to "Air Beige" it was hilarious! Keep us laughing at your reactions

[@AMANDARAEUK]

Will do 😊😊

[@MikeSmith-ye9ho]

I’ve got some Scottish friends which have lived here in the west of England for quite a few years So you can understand them until they’ve had a few beers. The more beers the more becomes a foreign language and they don’t even notice that they’re doing it

[@AMANDARAEUK]

Haha I bet it’s fun though

[@eamonnclabby7067]

Here on Merseyside ,Kenny Dalglish ( ex LFC) was always getting booked by the ref...due to language difficulties sounding like Rab C Nesbitt, Graeme Souness ( also ex LFC) was always able to charm refs with his Edinburgh accent sounding like Sean Connery....

[@garymcatear822]

Gerard Butler, Jamie McAvoy and any Scot for that matter who is speaking to none Scots change how they speak dramatically in order to be understood, but as soon as we are drunk we say to hell with that shit and revert straight back to our own tongue.

[@GarryGri]

@@eamonnclabby7067 Sean Connery doesn't sound like anybody I've ever heard from Edinburgh, and I originate from Fife and have worked in Edinburgh for years.

[@wilson6177]

Love your videos so much look forward to everyone Amanda love Wilson from Scotland

[@campbellgraham1979]

I’ve lived in Scotland all my days and I’ve never heard of an air beige in my life 🤣🤣 I’m saying it from now on tho 👍

[@AMANDARAEUK]

Haha it’s great!

[@douglastodd1947]

i think an air biege is one he made up him self. i'm 70 and never heard a ripper or fart described or called an air biege

[@GarryGri]

Nether have I... Maybe it's yet another Glasgow thing!?

[@morry27jd24]

Glad you enjoyed this Rae. Gaun yersel can be translated as go-on-yourself. Meaning you can do this on your own (not in a condescending way though) . As Gerrard says a lot of these words/phrases are used in different parts of Scotland, particularly there is an east/ west split in the slang language- this is often oversimplified as Edinburgh/Glasgow. The vast majority of Scotland population stays in what we call the ‘central belt’ incorporating the two cities which is in the southern area of the country. Confused yet 😂 I don’t want to turn it into a geography lesson but these phrases are very specific to different regions. I’m in the ‘east’ we don’t use a lot of this stuff.

[@GarryGri]

In the East we use more SCOTS words (or derivatives) it's the west that uses more actual slang phrases.

[@tarquinbullocks1703]

Amanda. Best voice.

[@matthewesney2629]

Brilliant vid lady..I was laughing with both of you

[@AMANDARAEUK]

🤣😊

[@insidiousbeatz48]

Im from Edinburgh and I'll teach you Scottish in 5 words. Can't, don't, won't, shouldn't wouldn't. Cannae, dinnae, winnae shouldnae wouldnae 🤣

[@AMANDARAEUK]

Hahaha thank you!

[@Aswaguespack]

Cool

[@GenialHarryGrout]

I learnt to speak Scottish by watching Still Game

[@davidpage4005]

Everyone will probably tell you to check out Billy Connolly, but you really should look up anything to do with "Rab C Nesbitt", one of Gregor Fisher's characters. Don't ever lose that gorgeous chuckle of yours.!!

[@MyBigMouth]

My favorite is probably "fud", it means fanny, and no the American fanny. So I pure pished mysel laughing when I went to America and saw a resturant called Fudruckers, which now makes fud even better.... "Oh you, ya fudrucker"

[@cosimodemedici1530]

Some of these are slang used all over the UK not just Scotland

[@DavidSmith-cx8dg]

Gerrard Butler did a great job and the expressions are really funny and witty . I've worked with contractors who came down from Glasgow and only understood about half of what they said .I expect they think most English people are deaf .

[@AMANDARAEUK]

Haha I really enjoyed it 👍🏻

[@paulbellingham3948]

Deef

[@georgegard.aka.currymonste1498]

KZbin wants to translate your reply to English 😆

[@eamonnclabby7067]

@@AMANDARAEUK canny hear ye....

[@kevinfroude8679]

@@eamonnclabby7067 😂

[@richardhood1337]

If you return to Scotland, Please, please go to the Orkney Islands AND the Shetland Islands. Both have lots of history, beauty, culture and two really interesting dialects.

[@AMANDARAEUK]

I’ll keep that in mind 👍🏻

[@AMANDARAEUK]

Thank you 😊

[@dscott1392]

I'm from Dundee, Amanda and I have used all of these apart from pure barry, which of course I know but it tends to be more west coast...we sometimes use ,"floating air biscuit "as slang for a fart too....love the channel

[@AMANDARAEUK]

Lol 🤣that’s great!

[@marmac7483]

Also from Dundee and have never heard air beige in my life apart from this video

[@jezfield8547]

Hi Amanda.Hope you enjoyed that, quite interesting. Im Northumbrian and some of the words are quite similar. Have you had the chance to visit Northumberland? you would get some bonny photographs, great coastline, castles and rolling hills and Hadrians wall of course! Thanks Amanda, Hope your having a great week

[@stuartrawson5057]

Air beige 🤣🤣🤣i need to remember this one ive not heard of some of these they are brilliant this was fun to watch thank you Amanda 😀😆😆❤❤

[@AMANDARAEUK]

Haha I’m so glad ! 🤣😊

[@andrewward2010]

Air beige and Jobby. Yes I will add those to the vocabulary LOL! 😂

[@AMANDARAEUK]

🤣

[@graemehossack7401]

Ah Dinnae Ken = I Don't know. The word "know" is one of the many words that comes from old Norse, left to us by the Vikings. The "K" was not silent (as in King Knute) but over time the English have drop pronouncing (but we still spell it with a k) it while the Scots dropped the end of the word to leave kn which has become ken. Nobody called Ken was involved.

[@AMANDARAEUK]

Thanks for explaining 😊👍🏻

[@dennisbranch6920]

Also, you call kids barn which comes from the Danish word barne. Also hus is the same .

[@janiyawest7023]

Check out the Scotchish comedian Billy Connally. Absolutely hilarious.

[@cwftft4273]

whit the fuck is “Scotchish?” Scottish…. a wee bit?? And it’s SCOTS when describing a person who is SCOTTISH……. ya bawbag 🤦‍♂️

[@johnwaga3702]

A great reaction! Air beige was brilliant!

[@AMANDARAEUK]

🤣🤣

[@davidmcintyre6444]

Amanda, you’re sensational in all ways. ❤️

[@charlienairn783]

My favourite is when the wonderful Janey Godley - go find on KZbin - said of Nadine Dorries - or rather spluttered in rage at her , “Nadine … you Clackwanker you”.

[@daffyduk77]

bevvy is also scouse for drink. Baccy (as in wacky backy - cannabis) is UK wide for tobacco. "Dinnae" is just Scot variant of "dunno" (UK)

[@AMANDARAEUK]

👍🏻👍🏻

[@markockwell]

: tatties and neeps was always ma favourite dish when on the Isle of Skye..... = means potatoes and parsnips usually served with Haggis (sheep's bladder full of minced meat and cereals).... Tasty 🍻🍻

[@stevenlewis3100]

Haha gaun yersel Amanda!!! Boaby (a man's private part) & jobby are def my faves. One suggestion for a reaction video for you to watch which also incorporates Scottish slang, would be to watch an audience with Billy Connolly. Particularly the incontinence pants sketch. Don't know how many times I've seen it but I still 'greet' (means to cry) with laughter when I watch it. Great vid as always! x

[@AMANDARAEUK]

🤣😊

[@Aussiedave54]

Greetings from Australia , Amanda, come visit so time, I'm sure you'll love itl 🇦🇺

[@333Saffie]

"Rank" works in Australia too.

[@tonybaker55]

I had maternal Scottish grandparents, so I had heard a lot of these before, but never heard my grandfather use any of them. Think he was too anglicised to have done so and originated from Aberdeen! Billy Connolly was my source of Glaswegian slang in the 70s. That air beige was rank!

[@AMANDARAEUK]

Lol 🤣

[@Aswaguespack]

Two Snorts -a funny video. Thanks for sharing! 😂😂👍🏻👍🏻

[@AMANDARAEUK]

Welcome 😊

[@aviationphotographer3905]

Technically, the phrase "Ah Dinnae Ken" is not slang, but a phrase from the Scots language. The Scots language evolved from the Early Middle English language that existed from 1150 AD to 1300 AD. Also, due to the Viking invasion of Scotland and the north of England, many Norse loan words made their way into Early Middle English. When you look at "Ah Dinnae" you can see the basis for "I do not" or "Don't". The word "Ken" is a Viking loan word meaning "To know".

[@denniswilliams160]

Not just Scots - "D'ye ken John Peel?" - which translates to "Do you know John Peel?" - is a famous Cumberland hunting song written around 1824 by John Woodcock Graves (1795-1886) in celebration of his friend John Peel (1776-1854), an English fox hunter from the Lake District.

[@GarryGri]

"Wi a wee bit ow French!" My Granny never had a 'serving dish' in her life, she had a fair few 'ashitts' though!

[@annother3350]

If you went to Scotland you'd get the gist of most of the language.

[@AMANDARAEUK]

😊

[@seanhopton.]

"It's great to laugh"😃😀😉👍l was surprised that some l had Never heard of, let alone hearing or trying too say these words is hard enough.Best wishes😀🙂from England🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@craigstewart1029]

LOVE your mic! Your voice is IN MY HEAD lol

[@jackthelad8182]

I din a Ken is my favourite, my brother Keith lives in Inverness and when I phone him he says some of these phrases,great stream amanda,take care bonnie lassie!

[@AMANDARAEUK]

Thank you 😊

[@AlBarzUK]

To ‘ken’ is to know. There’s a common expression from my youth, and the title of an old radio programme - “Beyond Our Ken” = outside of our knowledge. “Bevvy” is short for beverage (drink).

[@AMANDARAEUK]

😊👍🏻

[@denismoore7598]

I'm surprised that sleekit and glaikit didn't get a mention!

[@AMANDARAEUK]

I’m not sure what they mean haha

[@dunconya2176]

@@AMANDARAEUK Sleekit basically means untrustworthy and glaikit means a bit idiotic or stupid looking. So "mah workmate's a sleekit bam, he keeps reporting me to mah boss" and "Private Pike (from Dad's Army) is pure glaikit". Incidentally, while mentioning Dad's Army, have you seen any episodes of it? Classic British comedy!

[@robertfoulkes1832]

They're not slang words, they're Scots words.

[@par576]

We had a B & B in Dumbarton. People stayed before they went to Glasgow Airport. An American and family came in so I knew I'd have to speak clearly. The guy said ' Oh thank God. I can understand you. I was in a shop down the road. I knew they were speaking English but I didn't understand a word'!

[@AMANDARAEUK]

Lol

[@dunconya2176]

I'm from the Dear Green Place (Glasgow) and we certainly have our fair share of slang. As the video says, we have a million words for getting drunk, the classic pure pished is probably the one I use the most! I'd definitely agree about always being sarcastic as well, I lived in Canada for a while and, other than the 'you're alright for a Scot' chat, the most comments I got were about my completely sarcastic nature!

[@mothmagic1]

I think the British in general are a pretty sarcastic bunch. I think it we wouldn't properly be us without the sarcasm.

[@chrissharp6733]

Great video as Always Amanda, if you like accents there's a Geordie slang Video with Sam Fender that's a Laugh 🙂

[@Svvithred]

Jobby is the best word, I'm 50% Scottish and I always say jobby because it confuses the hell out of people 🤣

[@Psmith-ek5hq]

The word was popularized by Billy Connolly. Or at least that's when I first came across it.

[@AMANDARAEUK]

Hahaha it’s brilliant!

[@gwaptiva]

"doing the messages" is a Germanic term which also exists in Dutch (and it's the normal expression for grocery shopping in that language). It has been in the language since the 13th century, so I doubt it's about writing things down. My fav Scottish slang word is probably clatty, or maybe dreich

[@GarryGri]

'Dain the messages' nabody wid say 'doing' 😉

[@enemde3025]

Bonnie Amanda. He is from Glasgow and I am from the North East ( Peterhead), we have different slang and language (DORIC) altogether. The phrases only sound like names but they're NOT. GAUN YERSEL' = GO ON YOURSELF.

[@mark240862]

"Nay Bovva Pet" has always been a favourite of mine. Basically meaning.. Nay=No, Bovva=Bother/Problem, Pet=Darling/Sweetheart....etc.

[@keithmclean1238]

Love when people from other countries try to pronounce our words 🤣🤣🤣🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍👍👍

[@itsonlyagame2722]

Sorry Keith I didn't understand a word of that.

[@333Saffie]

"Ken" is from the OE "cennan" or ON "kanna" meaning "to know" or "to sense". It's where we get "canny" (knows stuff) and "uncanny" (unknowable). "Dinnae" is simply "do nae" or "do not". So "dinnae ken" is "don't know".

[@tonys1636]

It took me years to learn what a Glasgow Kiss was, then one Saturday night in Glasgow I received a practical lesson.

[@AMANDARAEUK]

I’ve heard of that but I’m not sure what it is haha

[@thematey3592]

@@AMANDARAEUK A head but. Not the kind of thing you want to learn by experience 😥

[@thematey3592]

sorry I meant Head-Butt

[@AMANDARAEUK]

Definitely not!

[@iHelpSolveIt]

They do... Seriously 🤣 and sarcastic, blunt, and the entymology of the words probably comes from names of people as it does in the Southern parts.

[@johnmassey55]

Thanks for the video Amanda ! I think Air Beige was one of the better ones !💨

[@AMANDARAEUK]

Yes 🤣🤣

[@richardlaasna8372]

Right, Amanda! I found out when visiting Glasgow that a Police Office is a Police Station. Not slang I know. Anyway, there is slang in every corner of the UK including my city of Bristol. Eg. GERT LUSH = Really good or really lovely! Cheers for now!!!!

[@tonygreenfield7820]

Hadn't come across Scran as a Scottish slang term but it has been used to refer to food (although food is being generous - perhaps "rations" is a better definition) in the armed forces, particularly the Navy. The best definition I came across was from Australia. Stuff Cooked by the Royal Australian Navy.

[@AMANDARAEUK]

Ah ok 👍🏻

[@stevencooper7505]

I've always liked jobby. Billy Connolly's jobby wheecha. I used to have a ponytail and one night I plaited it my Scottish manager described it as a wee jobby thinking I wouldn't know what it meant boy was she wrong. She was devastated!

[@KWHCoaster]

Being from Nova Scotia (New Scotland) I've used a few of these, I use "rank" a lot. Now I know the origin. 🙂

[@AMANDARAEUK]

😊👍🏻

[@eamonnclabby7067]

That pops up here on Merseyside too ( big Scottish influence)..

[@williebauld1007]

I’m Scottish and my favourite Scot’s word is bawbag, I use it A LOT!!! I can’t believe you’ve never heard of jobby before lol Loved the patented Amanda snort at air beige 🤣🤣👌🏻👍🏻 Ken in Scotland means know, like dae ye ken Jimmy? (Do you know Jimmy?)

[@AMANDARAEUK]

Ah that makes more sense! 🤣

[@williebauld1007]

@@AMANDARAEUK it gets strange when asked dae ye ken Ken? 🤣🤣

[@davidavery2629]

@@AMANDARAEUK I'm an Irishman who's spent most of his life in Scotland. The one I like, which is also said in my birthplace, Belfast is "Iz yuus gonne give ma heed peace?!"

[@andrewjohnston4127]

@@williebauld1007 aye ah Ken ken, but did you ken ah kent ken? 😂

[@bigoz1977]

O E of the best uses for Baw bag was when everyone called a hurricane that hit the west coast hurricane bawbag and they actually said it on the STV news 🤣 I think that's when they started officially naming storms 🤣🤣

[@barryderrick4693]

"Gaun Yersel" = "Go on, you can do this yourself". "Gaun - Go on" "Yersel - Yourself" (Go on yourself!).

[@AMANDARAEUK]

👍🏻😊

[@TheDickPuller]

‘Where’s yer Da’?........’Oh he’s ben the hoose’. The word ‘Craic’ is actually Scottish. Everyone thinks it’s Irish as they use it a lot, but it’s ‘Scots’, which is a Lowland Scotland version of English.

[@JUANKERR2000]

'Ken' isn't a name in this case, it means 'know', 'knowing', 'knowledge, etc, as in 'beyond our ken' and in the song 'D'ye ken John Peel?...'

[@davidgraham5242]

ken means knowledge as when sheldon says it`s beyond your ken and penny says well your ken can kiss my barbie. and a good scots word is dreich meaning dull and overcast weather

[@shanchat]

The Scottish measurement of a 'bawhair' should be in there. "How much more does this need to be moved Shuggie?" " Aw just a bawhair Jimmy".

[@Pailhead33]

I like the word bawhair. That's my go to word when describing something very close like "man that was a bawhair away".

[@AMANDARAEUK]

Lol🤣

[@sharkey25uk]

Yep it's on the descending Scottish size scale:. Wee > teeny > toaty > bawhair > midgie's bawhair. A Midgie's bawhair is the almost sub atomic distance between two objects or the tiniest distance something has to be moved

[@ianjones1442]

Good evening Amanda it shouldn't of been but that was seriously good & very funny 🤣😂loved how you lost it during 'Air Beige - Fart ' 😃🤣😂🤣😂

[@AMANDARAEUK]

Lol 🤣😊

[@nevermindmyname9153]

I love the Welsh Slang for Microwave: Poppy ping or "Pop-ti-ping". Meaning "Pop it in and wait for the Ping"

[@Kari_B61ex]

Love Gerard Butler - OMG he is one helluva hot man! I'm English and have Scottish friends, it took me many months to realise what they were saying, and wondered who Ken was - 'Ah dinnae ken'😂

[@AMANDARAEUK]

Lol I know it 😍

[@honestchris7472]

A lot of these slang phrases are also use a lot in the north of England.

[@Tim_3100]

My late gran on my moms side was scottish so i know some of these are funny

[@AMANDARAEUK]

Brilliant 🤣🤣

[@scouseofhorror104]

Definitely 'Jobby' because my lovely Scottish mate used to say it! It doesn't sound right from a scouse 'gob' so I left it to him! 💩🤣

[@AMANDARAEUK]

🤣

[@DruncanUK]

My favourite, and also very common, is the word "minging". (Pronounced ming-ing). Means, horrible, disgusting, smelly etc. "Ugh, your sweaty clothes are minging"

[@AMANDARAEUK]

Haha I’ve heard that one 👍🏻

[@kevinfroude8679]

First time I heard "bawbag" was when Scottish legend KT Tunstall (the singer) called a politician that on Twitter 😂

[@AMANDARAEUK]

Lol 🤣

[@nicksykes4575]

Hi Amanda, there's another one in this series, with Simon Pegg and Henry Cavill, teaching British slang.

[@AMANDARAEUK]

I bet that’s good, I’ll check it out 😊👍🏻

[@andrewjohnston4127]

Boaby,jobby, Ken like ae? Bottle of ginger, dobber, there's loads of brilliant Scottish slang words 😂

[@AMANDARAEUK]

Haha I need to do a video 🤣

[@terencecarroll1812]

I learned Scottish from listening to Billy Connolly tapes

[@ukmark62]

I'm guessing that "Ah dinnae ken" (I don't know) maybe has part of its origin in German. In German the verb "kennen" means to know (a person). The other German verb to know is "wissen", but that is used as in to know a fact. "Dinnae" is just the same as "don't".

[@AMANDARAEUK]

Thank you!

[@janbehling7978]

A wee jobby I remember that from the Billy Connolly videos

[@101sjls]

Awa an bile yer heid has got to be one of my favourites, basically meaning get lost or also used when someone is talking complete nonsense

[@AMANDARAEUK]

Lol

[@kevinfroude8679]

"Ah Dinnae Ken" - "Ah" means "I" - Dinnae means "Don't" and Ken means "Know" so literally "I don't know" Ken really means knowledge - something can be "Beyond my Ken"

[@simov8chevy]

The word 'know' used to be kenow and was pronounced as you see it. Over time the E was dropped in certain parts and the ow was dropped in other parts.

[@AMANDARAEUK]

Thanks for sharing 😊

[@krakatoa1200]

Go on yourself ! Go to Scotland, it's beautiful, and the people are lovely, even though they hate us. West Coast accent is much softer than the east.

[@AMANDARAEUK]

😊😊

[@kenaustinardenol1338]

Great Britain is a country with a lot a dialects and they have all a different kind of attraction. Scottish is definitely one of them and there are a few comedians using the full scale of it. With Kevin Bridges and even Frankie Boyle, you need subtitles, but Danny Bhoy and my great favorite Billy Connolly can do without

[@iHelpSolveIt]

I grew up in Cape Town and spent many days in the pib with my mums family and Scottish friends, English mates etc never have an issue understanding but GEORDIE... The Maccles variety can be much harder to understand

[@speleokeir]

Billy Connolly had a really strong accent at the start of his career, it's much milder now.

[@GarryGri]

@@speleokeir Billy Connolly is basically Englified Glaswegian.

[@robertanderson2552]

Most of the words are auld Scots words from the auld Scots language, some are slang

[@vitocorleone7040]

Gaun yer sel Amanda! ❤

[@divarachelenvy]

it amazes me how many of these slang words crept out to Australia too.... lovin the snorts too.

[@AMANDARAEUK]

😊

[@dennis12dec]

Bawbag often refers to an unpleasant person especially politicians.

[@AMANDARAEUK]

Ah ok 👍🏻

[@RabSea]

Gaun Yersel = Go on yourself! Like, go for it!

[@AMANDARAEUK]

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[@tomcarberry4445]

Gerry’s a Wallaper!

[@VeganAJohnH]

There use to be a program called mind your language on television. It is about foreign people learning the English language. Very funny television program of that time & era you would like it I think... I don't think I have a favourite Scottish slang word or any favourite word. I use to use the phrase ,. (Isspa ffoa kantysa reatheba ). If some one bothered me. It means ( piss off skanty breathe) in pig Latin. Skanty means skants or skanties a word that covers all underwear garments. Like pants. Knickers . Briefs. Boxers ect. England/UK/Britain is a strange place for words & phrases.

[@AMANDARAEUK]

I’ll check it out, thanks 😊