How To Talk Like The Scottish - DUNDEE (PART 2)

[@scottg2754]

I left Dundee when I was a boy and we emigrated to Canada. I've been in China for 13 years now. I lost my accent early on. I speak Canadian now, but I recognized everything in the two Dundee videos. We're going back to Scotland next year, either Dundee or Perth.

[@WhooshFlyingHorse444]

Hi Evie, Thanks for doing the Dundee videos...they're great, educational and entertaining! It amazes me that down the Scottish east coast between Aberdeen and Dundee and down on through to Edinburgh just how differently the locals of each area actually speak! X😊

[@anteteloquicogitare5002]

Hi Evie, as a native of Dundee who has lived in China for the last 17 years I have to tell you how much I enjoyed your videos. It was so much fun listening to you explain the accent and to hear it again. I had feared I had lost my accent and after watching your videos I immediately started to get back into speaking Dundonian, even if just to myself and friends. I forgot how much I missed my own accent. I left Dundee when I was 36 and in all my time in China I now speak with a rather boring flat Scottish accent so once again thanks for your excellent twa videos on mi accent.

[@EvieSpeaks]

Thank you so much for your comment :) it means a lot to me that people are getting something out of the videos! I went from knowing nothing about Dundee to falling in love with it and the way people speak here. It's a special place, so I bet you're proud of it. And I'm sure you'll never lose the Dundonian in you no matter where you go!

[@hec8]

I loved your two videos on Dundee. Never heard 'feeks' but my mum always used to say 'feechie' and the extremely rare 'feech geggs' meaning something like 'yuck'! I definitely think some voiceless fricative /x/ sounds are being replaced by a hard k even among Scots. Thanks for covering the Dundonian accent with such humour and charm.

[@katiespeirsx1906]

I think it’s cool how horses is often said as cuddies, or if someone says “do you want a cuddie back” or “gimme a cuddie back” it means, Example one: “Do you want to get on my shoulders?” Example two: “Let me on your shoulders”

[@1950dcs]

‘feech gad!’ was a common expression of disgust in my young day, and the meaning you give is exactly as I remember it.

[@raymondmiller9798]

The reason it's so hard to do videos like this in scotland is that what you say isn't even universal Dundonian. Like one part of town might say something differently from another part. We would also even know whether you were from within the city walls, from tealing (just outside) or from across the river. It's mad!

[@niallfraser1420]

Great videos Evie. I am Dundee born and bred but have lived in Hong Kong for 26 years. Here's one fir ye. Meh ald auntie Alice used ti say ''eech, meech, hen's keech, toley, bum, fart'' (with the ch as in 'loch'). No idea why, but it made me laugh as a kid and still does the day. Thanks.

[@EvieSpeaks]

I laughed a lot reading that, thank you! hahaha

[@elizabethdouglas2711]

lol my dad used to say that as well funny

[@alisonmcknight1485]

We used to say ..eech mech dogs ceech tolly. bum fart..0

[@aliross8744]

You probably know "There was a wee man who peed in the pan..." as well and "Dic, Dic-tation, corporation..." Playground stuff but you never forget it. London based for 30 years but still love the sound of home - heard a story of some Vietnamese medical students who flat shared with Dundonians and are constntly searching for Mulk.

[@ballsack6547]

@@aliross8744 snap mate , London also but found this was damage iy. Lol , by the way Eech meech hens keech , used to here that fae meh auntie on the hull back in the day , Classic Dundee.

[@dreamersvlog4072]

Have to say that I think that your part 2 was much better than part 1 it's much more fun and in my opinion it was put together better thank you for a very good video.

[@EvieSpeaks]

Thanks so much Sam! Glad you liked it. I'm still new to this KZbin thing, so learning all the time with every video. Means a lot to hear that it's paying off ☺️

[@dreamersvlog4072]

It definitely is paying off just stick into it because I don't think I'm the only one who thinks your videos are fun to watch so just stick in and if your enjoying it keep doing it

[@Djreid1974]

Brilliant stuff & im sure you could make another one... Ken what eh mean.

[@andreww2818]

the word dinghie is used in west of Scotland too, it means to ignore someone or something

[@dannyflynn5681]

These are really great videos! I've done a couple of videos about Dundee myself through BBC The Social, these are really informative!

[@baskolthof]

Thank you for your 2 videos. Actually going 9 weeks to Dundee for my internship abroad and this will certainly help!

[@EvieSpeaks]

Bas Kolthof no problem 😊 I’m so glad you found the videos helpful! Good luck in Dundee!

[@frozendog538]

Eh dinnae hink yi will hae any bathir if yi piy attention tae the lesson hen 😂 shiz pritty much kuvured it ah just dinnae expect ti hear it if yi go tae the ferry, thir pure fleh and try dingy yi oan there posh as the queen iy 😂 Lang mae yir

[@Coup1314]

Just discovered both your Dundee dialect videos love it. Feeks was a well used term when i was at school.. you were always getting told Oh he or she has the feeks.. Aye but they cannae gie me the the feeks look (pointing to a Freckle) I've had the feeks injection.. (aka vaccinated against the dreaded feeks 😂)

[@broughty0807]

What about "The big light" which refers to the main source of light in the living room. I understand that it's an exclusively Dundonian expression.

[@robertfm116]

We used the "big light" in Aberdeen as well.

[@alisonmcknight1485]

Love u!!! Good job lassie😊Im from Dundee, you made me proud "Good Aine"☺

[@melissamorris55]

i’ve lived in dundee all my life and i’ve never realised that the rest of like scotland don’t say closie,dinghies or kribbie i just thought that’s what everyone said ahahah

[@EvieSpeaks]

Its cool isn’t it!! 😁

[@annabodhi38]

Enjoyed this one too. Thanks so much for your hard work and for your effort.

[@EvieSpeaks]

Thank you so much ! 😊

[@jimmydickson8854]

I like the phrase ( caw canny ) means take it easy or push it gently something like that we use that down in leven area

[@themonk7257]

Great videos, some Dundee words I can think of not covered so far; chucky (small stone), dockay (big stone or rock), 'tin of juice' instead of 'can of juice' (I am culpable of this one quite often)

[@EvieSpeaks]

Ooh thank you, I didn't know the first two! I use 'tin of juice' a lot too haha. Or 'tinnies' for cans of beer

[@themonk7257]

Evie Speaks there is a relatively famous book from 1990 that I would recommend if you don’t already have it, the author has a website where it can still be purchased www.dundonianforbeginners.co.uk

[@frecciaceleste1969]

Great video

[@johnknoyle3781]

Hi evie love you videos g8 fun.

[@vat69man2002]

A roundabout is as you said a circle in Dundee but was called a roundall in Fife just across the Tay.

[@EvieSpeaks]

Wow I didn’t know that!

[@1000tubthumper]

@@EvieSpeaks Circles are so called because the Latin word for circle is circus. There is still a circle in Dundee called the Kingsway circus, it's at Strathmartine Road Kingsway junction.

[@garysnowden6926]

It's roondy

[@ianherd569]

I heard that the reason why there are no soaps or other serial TV programmes centred around Dundee is because proper Lochee is hard to do for actors (eh wid be rang though eh?)

[@garysnowden6926]

A Dundee saying to confuse you . Fev pehs in the skeh 😂😂 five pies in the sky

[@garysnowden6926]

Have you heard the saying best o tekkel

[@johnferguson40]

Thanks.

[@jimmydickson8854]

Nobody has done a video from leven or Kirkcaldy ,similar to Dundee but some words we don’t use from dundee

[@thorpe8138]

I'm from Arbroath which is roughly 20 miles from Dundee. Can you translate what I'm saying? - Fit like, far aboots iya fae? I wouldnae gae doon tae the fit o' the toon the day lassie, it's affy dreich oot there.

[@broughty0807]

"far aboots iya fae" means "where do you come from" in Dundonian " Whar dae ye cum fae"

[@robertcartmill1888]

fit like loon is aberdeen

[@stevestruthers6180]

You sound a lot like Scots who emigrated to Canada and lost most of their native dialect, but hints of it remain. We don't use the expression 'dinghies' in Canada, but sometimes we use the word 'ding', as in, "Don't do it, you'll get dinged for it."

[@billystrachan9552]

Di ye ken the gem kribbie eh yis ti play it when eh wis a bairn.

[@MarleyBu]

Its definitely Feechs! 😊

[@chopolosovich]

hahah brilliant, thats pure class eh

[@MarleyBu]

Ive never heard lurgy in Dundee. Eh thocht it wiz fae doon sooth.

[@Midlifer69]

Our trade with the Baltic states maybe had something to do with how we talk .

[@vcammack]

You need to mention the word " gadgee". It means an ordinary person of dubious means.

[@robertcartmill1888]

uve missed oot the word like teckle ..wich means yes. also nuffsaid.wich means forget it. there also begoy wich means boy but u would say it like here begoy wich means here m8/ friend.dundee has 2 language we the normal dundee and ul here other word fae language called eggie language we words begoy/ megate/kegen/kegen wegut em segaying sorry eh forgegot yir negame. which mean/ know what im saying sorry i forgot your name

[@PandemonicHypercube]

When I was growing up (80's and 90's), teckle was a way of saying that something is really good. Like the equivalent of North Americans calling saying "awesome"

[@RichardSmith-ew3xz]

Twa pehs, twa bridies, a ingin ain an ah an ul tak a tele tae.

[@bikerdan1615]

Eh have stayed in dundee all eh days and never hered o (feek) in all my days. P.s it was funny listening to you talking like us. Good tra fo. And another one you missed for (war) means where. War ya fae. Where you from. Ehm awa ta go Tae the shop. Am away to go to the shop. War ya wanna go the day. Where do you want to go today.

[@1000tubthumper]

Feeks or feechie touch is definitely from Dundee. I'm 58 born and bred Dundonian.

[@PandemonicHypercube]

Yeah I heard "feeks" a lot growing up. Also the game feeks. By the way "feeks injection all over" was the equivalent of "chaps" in Tig.

[@vcammack]

Dear, Hen. It is echt and no acht. Acht is German.

[@bloochoob]

Us saying Echt for 8 obviously comes from the German acht, and our Scottish version of English comes from the many branches of West Germanic languages, English being one, Gaelic being another.

[@tonygibson1558]

Kribbie was a brilliant game.

[@HareDeLune]

Och, that's damage, eh?

[@dreamersvlog4072]

If emdy wants to get used to a dundonian accent just watch this interview wae Kyle falconer the lead singer fae the view kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKGumGWCqNWnq9U

[@creeyuwan2733]

Thanks for the video, Evie. I would be interested just to hear a Dundonian person tell a story. For some minutes. To get used to the overall sound. Here is something in this direction: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q3nVoJmYeNBoqtE

[@ianherd569]

Whits a toely? Sorry, em no efter a fecht!

[@MarleyBu]

It's a turd 😂

[@jukeboxgeneral7105]

Cundee comes from the French word 'conduit'.

[@EvieSpeaks]

No way, that's fascinating!

[@pauloldfield6924]

I think there are a few more like that; excuse the spelling... Ashet (plate, asiette) Tassie (cup, tasse)

[@vcammack]

Not feeks but feeechs. You need spittle at the back of your throat to pronounce it.

[@glebelands11]

ehm pishin masel laffin :-)

[@EvieSpeaks]

haha I'm glad :D !

[@glebelands11]

nae bather hen.. here's an auld phrase ehve no heard fir a lang time. 'ehm up the wrang dreil' !! hav a guess. :-)

[@vcammack]

Glasgow has a strong accent but not dialect whereas Dundee has a strong dialect.

[@conorsmith8551]

roondaboot haha

[@scowoody]

The maste dingys = a lot of lies

[@eddieross7233]

Meh Eh-Phone willnae connect tae the weh feh……..eeh?