American Couple & New Zealand Friend Reacts: Guessing Scottish Slang with Gerard Butler! Scotland 😍
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- American Couple & New Zealand Friend Reacts: Guessing Scottish Slang with Gerard Butler! This was So hard and Hilarious!! How cool is it that through this RUclips platform and then on FB and through our Patreon we have made so many AMAZING REAL friendships! And now one of those friends has come to visit us all the way from New Zealand!
Together we do our best to try to guess and learn Scottish Slang with Gerard Butler. This was a harder task than we thought but definitely had a ton of fun! We learned some interesting words and phrase for sure!
So grab a snack and guess along with us or if you are Scottish, laugh at us!! Our love to all the people of Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom!
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Hi everyone! So excited that one of our subscribers has become such a dear friend that after almost a year, she travelled all the way from New Zealand to visit us! That's the BEST part of what we do! REAL friendships! We hope you enjoy this episode! Drop a Like if you do and thank you SO much for watching!
That was "chin wagging" at it purest, LOL
Try and do Yorkshire slang girls. You won't guess one correctly.
Im from Dundee, so here is a bunch of Dundonian words or phrases. I'd like to see you guess what they mean. Nae cheatin (No cheating).
1. Eh
2. Cundie
3. Peh
4. Eh'll hae twa plain bridies an ingin ane ana
5. Yer coats on a shooglie peg
6. Doon
7. Bairn
8. Fleg
9. Hud
10. Mak
11. Puss
12. Bide
13. Auld
14. Bylin
15. Kribbie
16. Hoose
17. Circle
18. Watter
19. Toon
20. Shudder
21. Oxters
22. Haid
Best of luck 😂
I'm surprised your kiwi friend didn't get more right, especially Hogmanay. Most here in Canada would know from old British connections thought kiwis would be the same.
I loved how all three said 'I don't know' for AH DINNAE KEN, then kept trying.🤔🤔
Well, we didn't know!! 😂 If we were you we would be cracking up too!!
7:15. Talitha is right. Scots (not Scottish) is a whole other language. It's a sister language to English but has retained a lot more Germanic character than English did. It has it's own vocabulary, grammar and syntax, and obviously pronunciation. Most of the words and phrases Gerard Buttler is saying are not "slang" but just colloquial Scots. It's just that so many Scots people have been told over the centuries that their langauge is "bad English" or "slang" that many have come to believe it.
Stop lying, most of it was just slang. A lot of these (baccy, bevvy, trolley, steamin, scran, rank) aren't even Scottish - we use them across the UK.
@@monkeytennis8861 I wonder what moves people like yourself to claim that others are lying. Just in case you edit your comment again, this is what you wrote:
"Stop lying, most of it was just slang. A lot of these (baccy, bevvy, trolley, steamin, scran, rank) aren't even Scottish - we use them across the UK."
Unfortunately, you chose the wrong person to try to discredit, since I deal with language and languages professionally.
The video contains 20 words or phrases. Of those, 13 are distinctly Scottish and are demonstrably not slang, as they can be - and are - used in everyday speech across Scotland by people of all ages and all social classes, or are regional dialectal variations within Scotland and not generally used outside Scotland.
I said:
"Most of the words and phrases Gerard Buttler is saying are not "slang" but just colloquial Scots."
That is not a lie.
Linguistically, the term slang is narrowly defined. It means words and phrases that are used only by certain social groups typified by age, occupation or by belonging to a particular sub-group. You have army slang, engineers' slang, medical slang, teen slang, school slang, sports slang, etc.
Slang is transitory. It changes and can appear and disappear fairly quickly. When a slang term becomes widespread and is adopted by the broader population it ceases to be slang and becomes colloquial usage.
All of the expressions used in the video have been around for a very long time.
Also, simply because an expression is used outside as well as inside Scotland does not mean that is not part of the Scots language. Moreover, there are many words that originated in Scotland that were then adopted by people in other parts of the UK. That does not make them any less Scots or Scottish.
completely true! it is even recognised as a minority language in EU and UK gov, but people unfortunately still call it "bad English" when it'a actually somewhere between English and dutch
@@alicemilne1444 Brilliant! Although monkeytennis got you going wae that comment lol
Unfortunately the old Scottish tongue is dieing out, Ancient Gaelic because of English dominance and ethnic cleansing. every language changes but no doubt bawbag covers it all lol
We had a hurricane call Bawbag, hurricane Bawbag and that was it'd official name. Was funny watching the newsreaders and weatherman mention it .
Seriously?? 😂😂
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow yup lol 😂
@@AylaOlivieri dying here 🤣
Had me in stitches 🤣 don't think they understand the meaning
@@shonasmith613 they understood alright..they were having a chuckle on air
origin of 'Off your Trolley' comes from tramcars. trolley is the poles on the roof that touch the wires. so, if a tramcar has stopped, "whats wrong ?" 'Its off its trolley" something wrong with someone " they are off their trolley"
See Billy Connolly 's comedy routine regarding the " jobby wheecher " aka aeroplane toilet. Hogmanay is a word left over from French ( Mary Queen of Scots influence as she was married to the heir to the throne of France and had a French mother - she arrived back in Scotland with a French court) . See also ashet ( plate , from assiette) , gigot ( leg of lamb) , Little France ( area of Edinburgh).
My husband is from Glasgow, so knew most of the words, a few other words, skelf, is splinter, ockster, is armpit, the stank is a grid, a sandwich is a piece,. A term of endearment for a women is hen. Got used to all these words over the yrs, but still after 32yrs I have to listen carefully to what he's saying .😊 x
😂😂 I love watching you guys doing the Scottish videos. I’m 100% Scottish and actually from the same town as Mr B 🤣 it was good to hear his accent come back out.
Please don’t stop, you guys are so much fun.
I am scottish. I am watching this laughing at u all. U r all 😁 😂 😀 🤣
Ah dinnae ken was not surprising to a Swede here. A lot of Scots are descended from Swedish west coast viking. They share the same rolling r, and a lot of the scottish language have Scandinavian words in it. Kan/kunna means to know/be able to in Swedish and so it was not surprising to learn that Ken is a local version with a sleight old norse meaning of the same verb. In modern Swedish Ah dinnae ken would be "jag vet inte".
Being Scottish I personally feel we have more in common with Scandinavia than England, the way we speak, buildings and just the general attitude, I've been to Norway and apart from the language I would have aswell been walking up my local high street. Didn't feel foreign one bit....especially the dark afternoons✌
Ken more directly relates to kunskap although the English know is a shortening of knowledge itself anyway. so beyond my ken would be equivalent I guess to jag har ingen kunskap om ,, tror jag
@@davidwebley6186 probably so
Just watching this as a Scottish woman from Glasgow and enjoying the three of you. Brilliant. 😂x
That was so cool ladies, loved seeing Talitha with you, I've seen her on Facebook live and she's such a cheery positive person ❤ and I'm glad I did the mic drop moment and got to see Natasha in a pink jumpsuit 😂
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So funny hearing you guys trying to figure out words I say every day 🤣
Great video guys. One of the expressions missed by Gerald Butler is "Lang may yer lum reek." It is a family friendly saying btw 😄
Scotsman here from Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. Never heard of AIR BEIGE or PURE BARRY !
If you have Aberdonian ancestry then you need to learn to speak DORIC. The language of North East Scotland. FIT LIKE=HOW ARE YOU. OXTER=ARMPIT.
I'm from Dundee. Worked in Aberdeen for a few years. Can't tell you how confused I was when my gaffer said to me "furry boots is the loon" haha. Mad its only an hour north and speak completely different
Alex from London here. I just love these girls. So sweet and so positive. How long have you been together? You seem to have such a lovely relationship and I love your attitude towards other countries and cultures. Respect!
This has to be the funniest one you ladies have done yet 🤣🤣🤣 i have tears running down my face and scared my cat bursting out laughing! Jobby is one of my fave words ever. Gerard comes from Paisley and is a regular visitor when he goes to see his aunt who still lives here. I use a lot of these words every day… jobby and bawbag being regularly used! Gerard is right in saying that us Scots can be very sarcastic and we also have a dry sense of humour which can be construed as being rude… we are anything but xxx
I am so jealous of Talitha… i would love to come visit you guys xxx
Hearing the American and kiwi accents together is cray cray!! 🤯😜🇳🇿🇺🇲 🇬🇧
Mr Butler could read the telephone directory and I'd watch it!Good one ladies xx
You made me laugh, ladies, thank you so much. Especially the "bawbag" bit!🤣
As an Englishman in Kentucky on business and involved with Biscuit and Cracker production machinery. When I was asked in a restaurant would I like a complimentary home made biscuit I said "Yes". When I was given it I leaned over to my work colleague and said "They've given me a scone!" Genetically I am made up of English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Norwegian. Mostly Irish (48%).
Yep!!
LOL BELL BOTTOMS AN WORN OOT SLIPPERS
It's good seeing the Colonies getting along with eachother 😀
Morning ladies. As uou probably already know, some Scottish words and expressions are originally from English, so "gaun yersel" would originally have been "go on yourself". Hence the meaning of "go on, you can do it". (The yourself part implying that you don't need anyone's help with whatever it is, you're more than capable of being successful without other people's help). In other words - like yourselves - you've got this.
Partially correct isn’t it. It’s composite words which contributed to the English language, so saying it’s FROM English is like saying a shirt is made from thread.
Nicely said. "Weed seh "Gan theesen", Kos wee's thru' Yorksher. Me bairns speak RP sin they Kem 'ome thru' 'Uni. Ah tell 'em t' shut thee gob an seh it reet... ". I instantly regret trying to phoneticize a sentence in a form that tries to represent the way in which my family and friends speak. Broad Yorkshire is still around, although I hear it less often these days. I miss hearing 'Sithee'. Maybe it's our proximity to Scotland that gave us so many commonalities of language?
@@tomsenior7405 talk abaht coincidence. Ah wer' born in Sarth Yorkshire. Between Doncaster and Barnsley. Oodathunkit, eh? Ah'll sithee.
@@michaelstamper5604 Grand. Barnsley, eh? D Coy were based there. I stayed with them for a while on secondment from The Duke of Wellington's. I had the time of my life. The lads were absolutely the best soldiers. South Yorkshire is bloody lovely.
@@tomsenior7405 aye, ah reck'n so. Mind yer, ah'm biased, tha knows hahaha.
when Talitha said tatties 😆she got the accent spot on hah 👍
You should watch a programme called Still Game, it is a scottish comedy that will help you understand the language.
I would say ‘off your trolley’ means to be crazy rather than drunk. I’m Scottish, born and bred, but live in England. It meant crazy when I lived there.
Kia Ora from Auckland, if you wanna watch a recent of Cabin Boy Knits , A french Canadian, a Kiwi and a Canuk. James is also a guest from New Zealand. Be nice to see more international mates meeting up in real life on the You Tube. Enjoyed your episode.
Another word for fizzy pop that's still used in Glasgow is 'ginger' so a bottle of say Irn Bru is called a bottle of ginger'. The word comes from way back in the 1900s when Glasgow used to import ginger beer from abroad, and the name has just kind of stuck, so a bottle of ginger in Glasgow refers to any kind of fizzy drink (even there is no actual ginger in the drink).
Absolutely loved this, thank you all. I’m so scared of flying but I would fly to meet up with you both. You are very beautiful people and I include your friend from NZ. This made my Sunday afternoon.
Hi girls, lovely to meet Talitha, this was a fun video, you all did well with your guesses 💕 enjoy your time together
That was so nice to see you three together l really enjoyed watching you having a good time learning . It gave me a laugh this morning and l learned a few new words along with you . I have seen the biscuits in some American shopping hauls but had no idea that that’s how you open them so that’s something else l learn today 🇳🇿🇬🇧🇺🇸💖
Natasha thought that 'baccy' could be describing her getting Debbie on her back for a piggy back. Well, as Glaswegians, we used to do that too and it was called 'giving someone a backy' so we'll done Natasha. Its cos you're Albannach! (ie. Gaelic for a Scottish woman) 😊
I cried laughing at the jobby part LOL, we we not allowed to say that as kids.
The scottish comedian Billy Connolly used the word jobby in his routines to great effect
There was actually a public health campaign called something along the lines of 'check yer baws' for men to raise awareness of testicular cancer.
This should be fun, wonder if there's any that I don't know about.
That was great ladies!! " i'm not used too laughing at this time of day. Another great vlog from you again. I'm looking forward to more vlogs from the three of you.Best wishes & love from England Xxx
Worked for a short time in Edinburgh with a guy from Glasgow and had the pleasure of watching my Glaswegian colleague in discussion with another Scot from up in the highlands……….The conversation went something along the lines of the highlander talking at the speed of a machine gun with my Glaswegian friend repeating, what? what? what? what?……😃
This almost 65 year young Aussie (only 3weeks to 65th) knew about 45% of the Scottish slang, thinking that's OK. I got em from old movies 😊
I’m Scottish living near Glasgow. Didn’t know a couple of them. In different parts of Scotland there’s different words with the same meaning to those that were used. Mince n tatties are very popular in here but people outside Scotland would think of us eating haggis, neeps (mashed turnip) n tatties as the national food and drinking Irn-Bru
I live 20 miles from Edinburgh and never heard of a air beige lol
I live few miles from Glasgow and I have never heard of it either 😁
I live in Edinburgh, and I've never heard of it..
Loved it hahahahhahah the begining had me cracking. Lots of love for you 3
Cheers ladies !
Hi Ladies! Loving your channel 🎉 Blessings from Cromwell, New Zealand 🙏♥️🇳🇿
Talitha is just delightful! As are both you two, Natasha and Debbie. This old guy from Biggleswade, way over in England has been looking forward to your new posts for well over a year now. ❤️❤️❤️
Thanks for the laugh. It's easy to forget that not everybody uses these expressions. 🤣
Thanks for watching ❤️
Yeah I have wanted you to do it for ages 😁👍
Jobby always makes these vids🙄😂 Billy Connolly tells a good joke about jobbies
I was laughing my socks off at ah dinnae ken because you were giving the right answer that you do not know but telling us you didn't know the answer :)
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I on a few occations have had english friends askinhg me who is KEN?
This is great 😁 I recognised quite a few when he said them, but seeing them written down I had no idea! 🤣
Also, it’s great to see you Talitha 😁
Excellent, as always 👏
Mince and tatties is definitely a Scottish staple Lovely if made from lean steak minced, with plenty of onions. Mashed potatoes ( champit tatties ) and peas or swede. Pepper in the swede ( neeps) and butter too. Everyone likes their Mum's mince the best ! - because that's what they were reared on.
Sorry, but my grandmother’s was the best. She lived in Kirkcudbrightshire, she used to ask for a pound of round steak, minced. It was almost sweet, and l can still remember the taste.
Lol this was so good. As a peely-wally Scot’s lass I hear most of these phrases when out and about although I don’t say many of them myself. I only learned the one about your bum oot the windea a few years ago from a Glaswegian. Your T-shirts are fab. What I found funny tho is that I was born in Scotland but probably have 0% in my DNA as my whole family are from England and Ireland.
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If you were born in Scotland you are Scottish! Great news!!!👏😀
@@davidbarr9343 oh aye I’ve always said I’m Scottish. Just don’t have any dna of it lol
Wally is also the description for china eg Wally Dug is a china dog ornament and it is Old English for fade
@@findlaythompson609 ..... and " wallies " are false teeth !
That was funny, having a Scottish sister-in-law I have heard alot of these phrases and more when she has had a drink. Well done all over you. Keep it up girlies. Xx
Watched this in my bunk in my truck on a Scotland run may go for a wonder around the truckstop and use some of the phrases lol great episode xx
Brilliant 👏.. I found that funny 😄
Hi guys, just wanna say love your vids! All the way from glasgow!! 🏴🏴 not sure how a came across your channel but I’m glad I did!!❤️ this is hilarious 🤣
I’ve decided Natasha has a mucky mind 🤣
I recommend you folks watch Stanley Baxter's 'Parliamo Glasgow' also the old film 'Whisky Galore' ( the original black and white version) which was filmed in the Islands of Barra and Vatersay in the Scottish Outer Hebrides. The word 'jobby,' I have only heard in Glasgow and 'pure barry' must be a Paisley term. Have a pure dead brilliant time!!!
Hi I love watching your video's. My surname is Scottish and I do have some Scottish relations but I was brought up in north west London. My farther took me to Scotland to meet my relations. It took about a week for me to understand what they were talking about. Scotland is great but some of the accents are very difficult to understand. Watch 'Rab C Nesbit' and you will understand more. All the best.
That was funny
Aww right the noo? From Scotland. This was hilarious.
Mince & tatties is amazing , it is my favourite meal 🏴 great video ❤
I have a shirt like your’s Debbie. Except the DNA is different of course 😅- Viking!! (Icelandic).
Think you meant Natasha 😉
Scran is widely used in the British Army and Navy too as an acronym S.C.R.A.N. for Sultanas, Currants, Raisins And Nuts. An old-fashioned term used for supplementing sailors' diets with additional portions of Sultanas, Currants, Raisins and Nuts but is generally just used for the word food (rations) now, but I believe it originally comes from a dutch word, just the British Military are very good at coming up with abbreviations, acronyms and slang for everything, they basically have abbreviations and acronyms for everything.
I grew up on mince and tatties, also pronounced tauties, I am from Fife and that type of food is cheap but nourishing, can also be called stovies.
Admittedly I have not lived in Scotland for 52 years but my parents still had Scottish accents and traditions.
Noo hush yer weesht wee lassies hay a wee dram an look oot fur a wee timid coowren beastie, it mite run up yer draw’rs next time yer oot an aboot the toon.
Football is also known as fitba or fitbaw.
There are 2 great TV shows worth watching that are great to learn the lingo and slang, Still game and Rab C Nesbit, very Glaswegian.
Hello fellow Fifer
@@AylaOlivieri G’day, I have lived in Australia for 52 years, but was born in St Andrews and grew up for the first 10 years of my life in Coaltown of Balgonie, just next to Glenrothes, do I still qualify as a Fifer ? 😂😂😂😂😂😂 👍👍👍👍
@@whitedrguy6503 of course you qualify as a Fifer. I was born in Dunfermline but grew up in Rosyth Dockyard (my dad was in the royal navy). Moved around a bit but been back for a decade and live near Dunfermline again. I will always be a Fifer even though I lost my Fife slang lol
good grief if I was served Mince and Tatties as STOVIES I'd go ballistic !, It's called STOVIES because the potatoes are STOVED not boiled and mashed ! - Been away too long 🤣
@@richardpeddie2060 it was more to do with the ingredients, Cottage pie is mince and tatties in a pie, they are all the same thing in reality.
"Ah Dinne Ken an ah Dinne care" my mums go to phrase when we used to ask a stupid or an annoying question, when my sister and I were kids. My mum is from Hamilton , Fife in Scotland.
As a Scottish woman who had a very broad Scot spoken grandparents I knew them all apart from air beige. Most people don't use these words now. Maybe some of them but it's great to hear them again. Well done for giving them a go x
As part Scots and living 9 miles south of the Border, air beige was the only one I'd never heard of.
Some like 'steaming' have more than one meaning and vary from region to region.
huh, we use all these words (minus air beige, never heard of that one before)
you should try living here i find very funny people trying to understand scottish slang as we speak it every day and dont think twice about it it makes me laugh.
Brilliant so funny thanks all
Haggis is the national dish. Tatties, mince and neeps (mashed swede) is a very popular as a cheap and filling family meal
Love you two girls .Been watching you for a bit 😻😻 great content and cheers me up no end . Pen fae Scotland .
Great Post ladies, throughly enjoyed your Scottish conversion 😀
Baccy (probably more spelled like backie) is also for when you give a friend a lift on your pushbike... on the back of it...
I love ur t-shirt’s love from Glasgow Scotland 🏴
This was so funny ladies, loved it 🤣 Gerard Butler was born in Paisley! Same birth place as myself 🏴 Hope your friend had a safe journey home to NZ 🙏❤️ xx
We have those tubes full of dough for quoisants and buns they are very old fashioned but I love them .
You want to try Doric from the Aberdeenshire area. Most of what Gerard was saying was from the other coast like Glasgow and Edinburgh. I really enjoyed this video.
Scran is food that has been begged or cheap food, it can also mean scrounging as in a bar tab. Also used in the North East of England for food.
good video i pmsl at this i got some right was nice to see your guest from NZ
Hilarious ladies, as a Scot good job, we have loads of brilliant slang you should do more.🏴
Morning ladies, that was fun 😀
Mince and tatties is amazing!! Especially on a cold night. 😋 I have it at least once a fortnight in the winter. Feeds the family plenty 😊
FYI. Scran is a term commonly used in the military for food. A friend of mine was in the Navy and served with a bloke who's name was Michael Dinner. This chap came from Plymouth, and in the Navy natives of Plymouth are referred to as "Janners". As a result he was always called Jan Scran.
Can't believe they missed "Braw" (rhymes with "jaw") - means very good, excellent, outstanding.
Example: "Jasus! That wuz a braw jobby! Mah erse is in tatters..."
shes a belter
aberdeen scotland now youre talking my language xxx cheerz loving it
As a non-Scottish brit, I'm surprised at the Mince and Tatties being the national dish of Scotland, I always thought the national dish was Haggis with Neeps and Tatties.
It is hn&t. Never heard m&t being anything other than a common dish.
@@davidforman6191 thats haggis neeps and tatties hn@t
This was so much fun to watch as, having moved to Scotland from England 15 years ago, i now know what these expressions mean. It does take a while to pick these up so it is hard to pick these up on just a short visit.
I haven't watched her but I hope your kiwi friend shares her beautiful country with us. NZ is ridiculously stunning. Forget about the UK lol. Love u guys.
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I love your shirts! Scotland!
As a Scot I have to congratulate the three of you for a noble attempt! I must say the words and phrases Butler was given had a few very odd inclusions "Air beige" is an expression I've never heard at any time anywhere in Scotland nor have I seen it in written form before. Baccy is a term used across the UK and also in parts of the US- just watch a few old western movies! There is a brand of Men's underwear named "Baw Bag" and a few years back a winter storm was named "Baw Bag"on social media and adopted by the print media- it led to the UK adopting a formal naming pattern for storms similar to that in operation in the US. Some of the phrases are used only in very small geographic locations and some by the working classes while others are used across all social stratas
i concur Air beige i have never used in day to day talk
Fizzy Juice is a softdrink the most famous Scottish drink after whisky is IRN BRU.
As an avid Outlander fan a lot of these terms were in the book so even though I’m American I guessed a lot of them
A baccy is also if you sit on the saddle of a push bike & the ride stands up on the peddles & peddles the bike, or if there’s a rack over the back wheel you sit on it with your legs dropping down either side. 👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧
thats spelt backy
6:38 ... "so what is it?" .. New Zealand girl nails it first time "I dont' know"
Yer Kiwi pal is braw, bonnie as a wee lamb. Ah ken she'd mak a guid lumber fir some gadgie aw mebe a lassie?
Surprised to find Gerard Butler was from Paisley, though he was an Easterner from his words, a couple of which I'd never heard but managed to Guess! Backie also has another in the part of Scotland I'm from, it can also mean giving you pal a run on your bike sitting behind you. Hilarious ladies, I was in stiches watching that one! You all have bad minds btw!
Ey up me Duck. It was hilarious to watch the three of you trying to work out the meanings to Scottish slang 🤣 Please do more videos with the 3 of you. By the way the first sentence is not Scottish but a welcome from Nottingham.
Funnily enough. Baccy means tobacco but you could also say backy as a piggy back😂
Good bit of fun... serious note HOWEVER - Glaswegian slang portrayed as SCOTTISH, how predictable ! - Not being from the West Coast of Scotland a lot of these 'Scottish' words are a mystery to my genteel North East of Scotland sensibilities 😇. FYI - Natasha & Debbie, a Glaswegian (someone from Glasgow) or from that area, would find my accent, dialect, my slang, as hard to understand as I find theirs ! In TV & Film all we ever hear portrayed as Scots is in fact a West Coast or Glaswegian accent Tell me can you do AN AMERICAN ACCENT ?... don't tell me you don't all sound like Texans !!... Damn who knew ! 😉