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.
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.
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.
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
Billy Connolly made comments about shite parents say and specifically mentioned "I'll take my hand off your face" - "it was the puttin' it *on* at speed...."
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"
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! 😮😂
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.
Some of those terms are in use in New Zealand as part of "New Zealand English" - "baccy", "trolley"/"off your trolley", "bevvy", "wee bit" and "rank" - some others were known to me due to exposure to Scottish/UK media here in New Zealand (TV shows, Billy Connelly's comedy, movies etc); some, like bawbag, needed no "translation", others were new.
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
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....
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.
@@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.
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
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.
what about POLIS all the Scandinavian dramas notice when Ken Bruce was in Finland for the European song Contest he said POLICE was POLIS outside was oot i was on a web page and i came across a virtual assistant and i was not having much success and i finished off and said YE CANNAE SHOVE YER GRANNY AFF A BUS i do not understand
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 .
"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🏴
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
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'!
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!
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.
My favourite is when the wonderful Janey Godley - go find on TH-cam - said of Nadine Dorries - or rather spluttered in rage at her , “Nadine … you Clackwanker you”.
I lived in Scotland for 10 years from the age of 3 to 13. I know most of these.. 😊. I'm back in England now. Its nay the same lol. I miss the country side xx
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".
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.
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.
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.!!
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
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"
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
: 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 🍻🍻
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.
"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
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?)
@@LADYRAEUK 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?!"
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 🤣🤣
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!
None of these are based on names. Peely-wally started with Pale and the wally was added as part of an old trend to double words up (think hanky-panky, hunky-dory, etc). Bonnie came from the French word bonne meaning good or nice. Scotland and France were politically close for a long time. Ken is a survivor from Middle English; kennen was a word meaning "be aware, know, have knowledge of, know how to".
kennen is actually still a word for knowing, In German. There seem to be a few Scottish words which are easy to work out if you know German. One example would be kirk (church), the German word is Kirche
The Scottish language evolved from Northumbrian which in turn evolved out of the Anglo-Saxon languages via a different route to English. 'Ken' (or similar) means to know in pretty much all Germanic languages, for example in Dutch "Bly om te kenne" means good to know you. Dinnae Ken is a contraction of "do not" (Dinnae) "Ken" (know) Scots also retains the -heit word ending, meaning -ness.
"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".
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
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.
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).
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!
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
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
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!!!!
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!
Grew up in a Scottish clique and my favourite slang was "skint", meaning broke, no money. "Jamie, can ya lend us a few notes til the pay lands?" "Och mate, I'd love to, but I'm skint"
My favourite, and also very common, is the word "minging". (Pronounced ming-ing). Means, horrible, disgusting, smelly etc. "Ugh, your sweaty clothes are minging"
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'😂
If you ever want to test your ear is attuned to a scots tongue, try watching the tv show "Rab C Nesbitt" which is about the adventures of a layabout in Glasgow. The character's accent is so deep that you really need to tune in, or you won't have a clue what he's saying.
"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"
@@LADYRAEUK Why do Scots say pish? Pish. Translation: Urine. However, in Glasgow and other parts of Scotland, it's a common word for something that evokes a negative vibe. For instance, if the score at the football isnae going your way, 'it's a load of pish taken from Google 😁
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.
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".
Wally is basically porcelain - "wallies" are false teeth; "a wally close" is a tiled hallway; "a wally cludgie" is a toilet - hence "peely-wally" being pale. Cludgie is my favourite Scots word......
Haha I'm from just over the border in Northumberland and I use lots of Scottish slang such as bawbag and boaby (which is another word for a penis) also Irish slang such as catch yerself on! (wise up or dont be stupid) and boke (vomit or be sick)
2:42 Go on ! Yourself ! is a perfectly reasonable cry of encouragement.
In Scots it comes out as 'Gaun Yersel'.
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.
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.
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.
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.
read the book when it came out years ago..was brill..read the other 2 as well and then saw the movie
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
ahahaha..thats hilarious
@@nathancarr3916 it wasn't at the time lol it bloody hurt lol
@@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
@@nathancarr3916 quite was or is still quite common in Glasgow lol
Billy Connolly made comments about shite parents say and specifically mentioned "I'll take my hand off your face" - "it was the puttin' it *on* at speed...."
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"
ahahahaha
Dinnae gie up the day joab mate
Ill watch your comments....... your smile and laughter....... thats it..... glad youre happy doing what you do!
Thanks! 😊😊
I’ll second that remark as well!
@@Aswaguespack thirded...not sure if that is a real word..but here goes anyway...
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! 😮😂
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Amanda, I loved the snort reaction to "Air Beige" it was hilarious! Keep us laughing at your reactions
Will do 😊😊
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.
I never would have guessed that lol
Never heard of most of these but they are brilliant, really funny, thanks for the upload.
Welcome 😊👍🏻
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
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.
In the East we use more SCOTS words (or derivatives) it's the west that uses more actual slang phrases.
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 😀😆😆❤❤
Haha I’m so glad ! 🤣😊
Some of those terms are in use in New Zealand as part of "New Zealand English" - "baccy", "trolley"/"off your trolley", "bevvy", "wee bit" and "rank" - some others were known to me due to exposure to Scottish/UK media here in New Zealand (TV shows, Billy Connelly's comedy, movies etc); some, like bawbag, needed no "translation", others were new.
Love your videos so much look forward to everyone Amanda love Wilson from Scotland
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
Haha I bet it’s fun though
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....
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.
@@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.
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
Lol 🤣that’s great!
Also from Dundee and have never heard air beige in my life apart from this video
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.
what about POLIS all the Scandinavian dramas notice when Ken Bruce was in Finland for the European song Contest he said POLICE was POLIS outside was oot i was on a web page and i came across a virtual assistant and i was not having much success and i finished off and said YE CANNAE SHOVE YER GRANNY AFF A BUS i do not understand
"Guan Yersel"
Translation "Go On Yourself".
The same meaning as "Go You!" in American.
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 .
Haha I really enjoyed it 👍🏻
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TH-cam wants to translate your reply to English 😆
@@LADYRAEUK canny hear ye....
@@eamonnclabby7067 😂
"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🏴
Gaun yersel = 'go on yourself' squashed up and with a bit of Scottish flavour added
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
I learnt to speak Scottish by watching Still Game
"Nay Bovva Pet" has always been a favourite of mine. Basically meaning.. Nay=No, Bovva=Bother/Problem, Pet=Darling/Sweetheart....etc.
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'!
Lol
Amanda. Best voice.
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!
Lol 🤣
Brilliant vid lady..I was laughing with both of you
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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.
I’ll keep that in mind 👍🏻
Thank you 😊
My favourite is when the wonderful Janey Godley - go find on TH-cam - said of Nadine Dorries - or rather spluttered in rage at her , “Nadine … you Clackwanker you”.
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 👍
Haha it’s great!
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
Nether have I... Maybe it's yet another Glasgow thing!?
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.
I lived in Scotland for 10 years from the age of 3 to 13. I know most of these.. 😊. I'm back in England now. Its nay the same lol. I miss the country side xx
I bet, I love the countryside
Two Snorts -a funny video. Thanks for sharing! 😂😂👍🏻👍🏻
Welcome 😊
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".
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.
"Wi a wee bit ow French!"
My Granny never had a 'serving dish' in her life, she had a fair few 'ashitts' though!
Also in Norn Iron.
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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.
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)
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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.!!
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
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"
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
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: 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 🍻🍻
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.
Thanks for explaining 😊👍🏻
Also, you call kids barn which comes from the Danish word barne.
Also hus is the same .
"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
'Dain the messages' nabody wid say 'doing' 😉
Being from Nova Scotia (New Scotland) I've used a few of these, I use "rank" a lot. Now I know the origin. 🙂
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That pops up here on Merseyside too ( big Scottish influence)..
I love the Welsh Slang for Microwave: Poppy ping or "Pop-ti-ping". Meaning "Pop it in and wait for the Ping"
It took me years to learn what a Glasgow Kiss was, then one Saturday night in Glasgow I received a practical lesson.
I’ve heard of that but I’m not sure what it is haha
@@LADYRAEUK A head but. Not the kind of thing you want to learn by experience 😥
sorry I meant Head-Butt
Definitely not!
If you went to Scotland you'd get the gist of most of the language.
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Gerry’s a Wallaper!
Greetings from Australia , Amanda, come visit so time, I'm sure you'll love itl 🇦🇺
Some of these are slang used all over the UK not just Scotland
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 🤣
Hahaha thank you!
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Air beige and Jobby. Yes I will add those to the vocabulary LOL! 😂
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FLAT OUT LIKE A LIZARD DRINKING(AUSTRALIAN SLANG)LOL
Also 'dry as a dead dingoes donger" - meaning very thirsty. From 'The Adventures of Barry McKenzie' an Australian movie in the 70's.
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?)
Ah that makes more sense! 🤣
@@LADYRAEUK it gets strange when asked dae ye ken Ken? 🤣🤣
@@LADYRAEUK 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?!"
@@williebauld1007 aye ah Ken ken, but did you ken ah kent ken? 😂
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 🤣🤣
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!
None of these are based on names. Peely-wally started with Pale and the wally was added as part of an old trend to double words up (think hanky-panky, hunky-dory, etc). Bonnie came from the French word bonne meaning good or nice. Scotland and France were politically close for a long time. Ken is a survivor from Middle English; kennen was a word meaning "be aware, know, have knowledge of, know how to".
Thank you so much for sharing, I was very wrong 😊
kennen is actually still a word for knowing, In German. There seem to be a few Scottish words which are easy to work out if you know German. One example would be kirk (church), the German word is Kirche
bonnet, bonnie etc
Yes indeed, our old words sometimes surprise us ,thanks for sharing Ian....
The Scottish language evolved from Northumbrian which in turn evolved out of the Anglo-Saxon languages via a different route to English. 'Ken' (or similar) means to know in pretty much all Germanic languages, for example in Dutch "Bly om te kenne" means good to know you. Dinnae Ken is a contraction of "do not" (Dinnae) "Ken" (know)
Scots also retains the -heit word ending, meaning -ness.
"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".
I like the word bawhair. That's my go to word when describing something very close like "man that was a bawhair away".
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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
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".
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.
Ah ok 👍🏻
Love when people from other countries try to pronounce our words 🤣🤣🤣🏴👍👍👍
Sorry Keith I didn't understand a word of that.
Amanda, you’re sensational in all ways. ❤️
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).
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First time I heard "bawbag" was when Scottish legend KT Tunstall (the singer) called a politician that on Twitter 😂
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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!
Thank you 😊
Check out the Scotchish comedian Billy Connally. Absolutely hilarious.
whit the fuck is “Scotchish?” Scottish…. a wee bit?? And it’s SCOTS when describing a person who is SCOTTISH……. ya bawbag 🤦♂️
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
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
Billy Connolly had a really strong accent at the start of his career, it's much milder now.
@@speleokeir Billy Connolly is basically Englified Glaswegian.
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!!!!
Good evening Amanda it shouldn't of been but that was seriously good & very funny 🤣😂loved how you lost it during 'Air Beige - Fart ' 😃🤣😂🤣😂
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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!
I think the British in general are a pretty sarcastic bunch. I think it we wouldn't properly be us without the sarcasm.
My favourite Scots word is numpty or numptie depending on how you spell it means stupid or foolish person .
Jobby is the best word, I'm 50% Scottish and I always say jobby because it confuses the hell out of people 🤣
The word was popularized by Billy Connolly. Or at least that's when I first came across it.
Hahaha it’s brilliant!
Grew up in a Scottish clique and my favourite slang was "skint", meaning broke, no money. "Jamie, can ya lend us a few notes til the pay lands?" "Och mate, I'd love to, but I'm skint"
Skint is universal in Britain, you hear it everywhere.
can ye gee us a sub til piy day , could you give me an advance on my wages until pay day. very common in the 1950s /60s.
My favourite, and also very common, is the word "minging". (Pronounced ming-ing). Means, horrible, disgusting, smelly etc.
"Ugh, your sweaty clothes are minging"
Haha I’ve heard that one 👍🏻
LOVE your mic! Your voice is IN MY HEAD lol
A great reaction! Air beige was brilliant!
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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'😂
Lol I know it 😍
"Rank" works in Australia too.
If you ever want to test your ear is attuned to a scots tongue, try watching the tv show "Rab C Nesbitt" which is about the adventures of a layabout in Glasgow. The character's accent is so deep that you really need to tune in, or you won't have a clue what he's saying.
He’s on my list 😊👍🏻
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! 💩🤣
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"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"
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.
Thanks for sharing 😊
"Gaun Yersel" = "Go on, you can do this yourself". "Gaun - Go on" "Yersel - Yourself" (Go on yourself!).
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'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?...'
Can't believe pish wasn't in there 🙈
Not sure what that is haha
@@LADYRAEUK Why do Scots say pish?
Pish. Translation: Urine. However, in Glasgow and other parts of Scotland, it's a common word for something that evokes a negative vibe. For instance, if the score at the football isnae going your way, 'it's a load of pish taken from Google 😁
Hi Amanda, there's another one in this series, with Simon Pegg and Henry Cavill, teaching British slang.
I bet that’s good, I’ll check it out 😊👍🏻
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.
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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.
I’ll check it out, thanks 😊
Boaby,jobby, Ken like ae? Bottle of ginger, dobber, there's loads of brilliant Scottish slang words 😂
Haha I need to do a video 🤣
Most of the words are auld Scots words from the auld Scots language, some are slang
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".
Thank you!
Wally is basically porcelain - "wallies" are false teeth; "a wally close" is a tiled hallway; "a wally cludgie" is a toilet - hence "peely-wally" being pale. Cludgie is my favourite Scots word......
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Great video as Always Amanda, if you like accents there's a Geordie slang Video with Sam Fender that's a Laugh 🙂
Haha I'm from just over the border in Northumberland and I use lots of Scottish slang such as bawbag and boaby (which is another word for a penis) also Irish slang such as catch yerself on! (wise up or dont be stupid) and boke (vomit or be sick)
I learned Scottish from listening to Billy Connolly tapes
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
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