hello and welcome to another in this
accent series today we're doing the
video you've all requested that's right
we're going up north to Scotland but who
exactly are we meeting today this is
Stephen Stephens from Glasgow that means
he's a Glaswegian arianna
how's it going so before we start
looking at the Glaswegian accent I just
want to ask Stephen what are you wearing
well and I'm reading the traditional
Scottish outfit of a kilt right that
consists of Hilkiah disported Bonnie
Prince Charlie jacket and then I've got
some flashes just on can I just ask
before you do that are you a true
Scotsman of course I'm a true Scotsman
right well maybe you should tell our
viewers what that means to be a true
Scotsman to be a true Scotsman it means
you've not got any underwear on
underneath your coat right and so you're
not wearing any underwear no good to
know okay well let's keep those legs
firmly on the floor and standing up
straight so the Glaswegian accent first
of all let's look at the individual
sounds that may be different between a
Glaswegian accent and a standard British
English accent the first sound is the
short vowel a I would say if the Stephen
would say e-e-e so for example in words
such as in in in I'm in love I'm in love
winner winner winner winner he's a
winner he's a winner
big big big big it's a big day it's a
big day it's a big day it's a big D CIN
CIN CIN CIN living in sin
11 and said naughty naughty naughty
naughty in a glass region accent the R
is generally tapped that means the
tongue taps of the roof of the mouth so
I would say words like bring and I would
see bring Oh
that was almost rolled yes so I might
say bring the beer and you would say
bring the beer
great and I would say green grass but
Stephen would say green grass green
grass green grass I love to roll in the
green grass I loved it all in the green
grass I bet you do we might also say
terrible terrible terrible terrible my
Scottish accent is terrible your
Scottish accent is terrible
alright the next time we're going to
look at is the W sound but specifically
when W is followed by an H in standard
British English we just say what but in
a Glaswegian accent it's aspirated like
this what that's it so I might say what
and I may see what what is the matter
with you what the matter with you why
why why did you do that
why did you do that where where where
where where did you go where did you go
I don't know where did you go I don't
know either
great next let's look at the diphthong
Oh in standard brush English we have the
movement across the vowels Oh but in a
glass region it's straighter like this
oh so I would say go and I would say go
and I would say home and I would see
home go home go home go home go home and
I would say don't and I would see dawn
and I would say no and I would see no I
don't know I don't know I don't know I
don't know
and finally I would say show sure show
me the money show me their money
the next if I were going to look at is
the ID diphthong again I move from one
Val to the other eye I like in the word
kind but Stephen does clean which is
slightly shorter that's very kind of you
that's very kind of you I don't like
Heights
I don't like hate I don't like Heights
I don't like hate fight fate let's not
fight
let's not faith we shouldn't fight we
shouldn't faith because if we fight I'd
win I don't think so because my hate
would be your plate
oh okay I'll take that one the next if
song is the au diphthong so I would say
how and I would see how how ho how do
you do how do you do I would say out and
I would see out out out
are you going out are you going out
about a boat about about what's it all
about what's all about let's go out and
about weights great and a boat great
another different that we're going to
look at is the a a diphthong for example
in the word take teeth away oh we would
you like to take away would you like a
thicker me would you like it take away
would you like a theory the next vowel
we're looking at is the ooh
Val it's long and tapers off into a
slight w sound at the end in standard
British English but in Glaswegian it
doesn't for example if I say you you or
if I say hoo hoo so I could say who are
you and I'd see who are you so nice and
short through through I've gone through
it I've gone through it nice and short
lovely next let's look at some of the
Scottish dialects that you would hear
specifically in Glasgow so
instead of saying yes and no what you
might hear is I know yes and no I know
when you hear words such as shouldn't
wouldn't couldn't haven't didn't all
those types of words the ain't the not
part of it has been replaced by knee so
if I said couldn't Steven would say
could knee shouldn't shoot me
didn't bit me I didn't do it
I'd maybe it I couldn't do it
I could they did I haven't done it I
have need on it quite famously the word
little is replaced with we so if I was
going to say I'm going to have a little
sip of whiskey you would say I'm gonna
have a wee nap a whiskey I'm gonna have
a little sip of whiskey I'm gonna have a
wee nap a whiskey instead of the word
head you would hear he'd head he'd head
the ball he'd the ball head the ball
he'd the ball notice how he didn't say
his dark hell's paw paw instead of the
word going you might sometimes hear gone
he's going home he's gone him so now
we're going to hear the lovely Stephen
doing the Braveheart speech so this is
what Mel Gibson would have sounded like
if he were truly from Glasgow ready sit
go
sons of Scotland I am William Wallace
seven feet tall
yes I've heard Kells Maine by the
hundreds and if he were here he'd
consume the English with fireballs for
his eyes and bolts of lightning from his
arms I am William Wallace and I see a
whole army of my countrymen here in
defiance of tyranny you have come to
faith as free men and free men you are
what would you do without your freedom
or your fate
[Applause]
all right hi fate and you made I run and
you're live at least a while and dying
in your beds many years from now would
you be willing to trade all the days
from this day to that for one chance
just one chance to come back here and
tell our enemies that they can take our
lives but they'll never take our freedom
well I hope you found that helpful I
just want to say a huge thank you to
Stephen and if you enjoyed that then why
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