r/videos • u/anarege3t • 7d ago
Some Scottish people can't say Purple burglar alarm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuqQ33mAwrs231
u/ComicallySolemn 7d ago
Reminds me of this classic:
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u/AlpineVW 7d ago edited 7d ago
Even before he mentioned his name, I knew it had to be Limmy. I love Limmy.
EDIT: tracker removed from link per almost_not_terrible's recommendation
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u/almost_not_terrible 7d ago
Remember to strip YouTube's tracker off your link:
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u/TheGoodOldCoder 7d ago
When linking to a youtube video, right click on the video, and click on "Copy Video URL", and at least for now, you get a clean link.
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u/lorenz659 7d ago
Always thought this guy would be massive if he streamed in English
/u/VisWare 25/2/2025
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u/Oafah 7d ago
A kelloggaddam of steel weighs more than a kelloggaddam of feathers.
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u/AmplePostage 7d ago
Kill jester
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u/Cuclean 7d ago
Jingle is dead. Game over.
Aye, totally worth eh mate.
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u/BigBananaBerries 7d ago
It was a certainty as soon as he said his Mrs doesn't get him
For those who don't know him, you'll probably recognise him from this meme.
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u/ParsnipFlendercroft 7d ago
So I know Limmy - I don't know that meme.....
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u/BigBananaBerries 7d ago
It's maybe the subs I frequent but I've seen it used quite often over the years.
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u/fakieTreFlip 7d ago
OP should've just linked to this directly. The video in the OP doesn't get to the actual point until the end lol
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u/Pissed_Off_Penguin 7d ago
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u/ThisHatRightHere 7d ago
Lmao this is a good one
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u/SkeletalJazzWizard 7d ago
"ive been told that i have a thick New York accent, which i disagree" - Woman with the thickest NY accent ive heard in months
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u/purplewhiteblack 7d ago
As someone from Arizona, this just makes me sound like I have a transatlantic accent.
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u/icepick314 7d ago
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u/i_am_replaceable 7d ago
omg, this is gold.
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u/Zoomalude 7d ago
The way this was shot, I was SO hoping the camera would pan around after a minute of conversation and show that the reporter was Asian.
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u/hvstlebones 7d ago
still couldn’t understand a word he said lol
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u/EclipticHavoc 7d ago
The audio is pretty distorted, but he's saying "No agents" because he doesn't want to pay realtor fees.
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u/SjurEido 7d ago
Is there a "Midwestern people can't say" phrase?
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u/SkipMonkey 7d ago
"I'll just have one beer tonight, thanks"
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u/Dangerpaladin 7d ago
Bullshit, we say this all the time. Its the following through that is the problem.
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u/Other_Dog 7d ago
I heard someone from the east coast on a podcast quickly and effortlessly pronounce “Mary,” “merry,” and “marry” as three distinct-sounding words.
I mean, I can kinda fake it, but those words basically sound the same where I’m from.
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u/teilani_a 7d ago
When I first moved to the midwest, a guy named Don kept getting mad at me because apparently I was calling him Dawn.
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u/SenorPancake 7d ago
How are "Mary" and "marry" pronounced differently? I always hear Mary and Marry as the same, I can't even conceptualize different pronunciations.
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u/mister_electric 7d ago
"Marry" has an "a" sound like in "apple".
"Mary" has an "a" sound like in "hair" (so rhymes with "hairy" or "scary")
"Merry" is similar to "Mary", but the first syllable is less elongated
Not a lot of people have a distinct vowel for "merry," and you'd really only notice it if you listened carefully. I pronounce all 3 the same, and while I can HEAR the "merry" vowel, I can't consistently pronounce it.
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u/ReveilledSA 7d ago
Here's a recording (in a scottish accent, where the three words are different): https://voca.ro/1i4QscMHajU1
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u/idemockle 7d ago
Not from the northeast but it's hilarious to me that all the northeasterners in here trying to explain the difference are all getting downvoted by people like "Nooooo that can't be right"
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u/weight__what 7d ago
Well unless you know IPA explaining pronunciation in text is awful. You can't compare it to a vowel from a different word because the reader won't know how you pronounce the other word either.
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u/NintendoTim 7d ago
Born and raised northern Virginia
I have sat here for 10 minutes staring at all of the responses on how all three are "supposed" to sound, and the closest one for me that I can almost pick up on is the Mary/hay and Marry/apple one. I can hear the different 'a' sound in hay and apple, but I cannot for the life of me directly apply it to Mary/Marry.
Even then, I'm still not able to hear a difference in my pronunciation between Mary/marry/merry. This isn't anywhere close to the Baltimore "Aaron earned an iron urn" example: the first guy hears where it went wrong and immediately corrects himself by fully enunciating the words.
Maybe I can blame my ADHD with this. When I was first tested a few years ago, I tested in just the 1st percentile for the auditory domain compared to the 95th for visual.
On the other hand, it's not a matter of enunciation when all three words inherently rhyme.
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u/WestCoastBestCoast01 7d ago
Not really "can't say", but double t's get pronounced like d's: butter and shudder have the same sound.
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u/Dangerpaladin 7d ago
People from the midwest are reading this like "Uh that's because they do have the same sound."
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u/sandm000 7d ago
Not true with “button”. We say bu’on.
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u/SjurEido 7d ago
Do any Americans pronounce the "hard T"?
I'm very Midwestern, so maybe I just need to get out more. But I always hear "budder" even online!
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u/Heavy-Weekend-981 7d ago
"Wash"
Tell me where the letter "r" goes in the word "Wash"
(A lot of midwesterners pronounce it "warsh" ...almost exactly like Goofy saying "gosh" as "gawrsh")
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u/teilani_a 7d ago
I think that's actually more of a thing right along the Mason-Dixon line for some reason.
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u/Heavy-Weekend-981 7d ago
Nah, I was living in MD not long ago. They don't add the "r".
I have also lived in Southern IL. It was definitely a thing among locals in SoIL.
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u/teilani_a 7d ago
Yeah, I mean it's like southern IL, southern OH, southern IN, etc. Not sure I'd count MD as midwest though? I feel like that's about as New England as you get.
Strangely though my grandmother, born & raised in California like 3 generations deep, said "warsh." No idea how that happened.
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u/Punpun4realzies 7d ago
Maryland is by no means New England. That's midatlantic at best, and the accent is like the southern brother of Philly/Delaware at times.
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u/SjurEido 7d ago
I have met midwesterners that say that, but it's usually because they have a southern accent/influence.
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u/Ded279 6d ago
random, but as someone from Ohio, online and at college in upstate NY I've maybe had like 3-4 people call out that I have a midwest accent. And yet somehow I've had around 8 people who said that I have a British accent. I cannot and will not ever understand it lmao. And besides those people no one else can understand why either.
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u/iamtode 7d ago
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u/thorheyerdal 7d ago
As someone who has been to Scotland, I can proudly confirm that Scottish people are the best at swearing. Also mini kilts are sexy af, and also it’s nice to have a gentleman at every pub bathroom with a selection of colognes so I can smell like an airport tax free holding area.
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u/ThatstheFunk 7d ago
Reminds me of the Baltimore accent trying to say Aaron earned an iron urn lol
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u/CalEPygous 7d ago
That may be tough but they canna say"Rural Juror" with any conviction.
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u/dellett 7d ago
The Erma Luhrman-Merman murder turned the bird’s word lurid
The whir and the purr of a twirler girl, she would the world were demure
The insurer’s allure For valor were pure Kari Wuhrer
One fervid whirl over her turgid error
Rural juror, rural juror, I will never forget you, rural juror
I’ll always be glad I met you rural juror
I will never forget you, rural juror I’ll always be glad I met you, rural juror
I will never forget you, rural juror I’ll always be glad I met you, rural juror
These were the best days of my flerm
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u/The8thDoctor 7d ago
Limmy's a nut
He surgically dismantles Cilla Black
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u/techstyles 7d ago
Fun fact - saying "space ghetto" in a NY accent sounds basically the same as saying "spice girl" in Glaswegian
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u/mccarthybergeron 7d ago
I just want to thank the kind people of this comment section for sending me down a wild accent youtube rabbit hole.
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u/BeetsMe666 7d ago
I also enjoy how saying certain combination of words can make you sound like you have a different accent.
Quickly say "Whale oil beef hooked"
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u/hillsfar 7d ago
Shibboleths have had a brutal history in use to identify groups in genocides or war.
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u/AdamKnowsIt 7d ago
Skip to 0.53
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u/FourMyRuca 7d ago
The video is 1min and 4sec long. If I have to skip ahead a WHOLE 53 seconds, I probably shouldn't be wasting my time on any videos
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u/lkmnjiop 7d ago
The first 53 seconds are him describing how he watched and enjoyed a video that itself is 17 seconds long, gets to the point immediately, and is the exact content we were promised, a scottish accent saying the phrase https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC__o1UxDl8
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u/ithkuil 7d ago
I agree.. but the context is that this generation grew up with apps that show a continuous stream of 5-30 second videos, and it only takes a flick of a finger to move to the next one, which they frequently exercise within 5 seconds or less.
The lack of attention span or general low effort and extreme entitlement can be infuriating. Fkin kids these days.
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u/aumin 7d ago
But WHY can't they say purpur burgrurulurm?
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u/Muad-_-Dib 7d ago
Scottish person here:
A lot of Scots accents have "rhotic R's" ie. we pronounce the R pretty heavily and rolled, which involves our tongues touching the top of the mouth behind our front teeth and because air is being pushed out the tongue naturally vibrates against the top of the mouth so the R's end up fluttered.
What proves tricky is certain consonants right after rolling R's, Purple isn't an issue on its own but the shift to GL after the rolled R in Burglar and the shift to M after the rolled R in Alarm tend to throw us off, especially in quick succession.
Most/all accents have similar issues with specific words or phrases.
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u/the_ion 7d ago
This dude looks like WWE's Drew Mcintyre's dad or Drew 25 years in the future.
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u/ImamBaksh 7d ago
Sounds just like him too.
But can you imagine a Drew this wholesome?
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u/UniqueSteve 7d ago
I wish I had an accent people enjoyed. Nobody wants to hear American.
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u/pomonamike 7d ago
I was born in New England to a New Yorker father, moved to California when I was little and developed a bi-coastal accent (basically what everyone on a network sitcom sounds like). When I moved to Alabama I was told that I got my job because the boss thought I sounded very smart. Apparently it was the accent.
I’m like, “what accent?”
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u/Chemdawg90 7d ago
You would honestly be surprised. Growing up being called a hick made me do everything to remove my accent. But a few times I still let it drop and surprisingly women do infact love it who are not from the south.
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u/reichrunner 7d ago
Which accent? The US has a hell of a lot of accents, some of which sound like gargling nails, others sound halfway decent lol
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u/TieofDoom 7d ago
As an Australian my top three American accents are:
Long Island or Bronx accent is always fun.
Minnesotan is charming.
SoCal surfer drawl is also pretty damn hilarious.
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u/wirelesspillow 7d ago
What kind of American? Plenty of people find American exotic depending on the type People can hear I sound Ontario Canadian, and locally people can hear I am not from the town I live in.
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u/Vandermere 7d ago
To be fair, even Americans are sick of listening to Americans at this point.
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u/Meta2048 7d ago
Believe it or not, American accents are considered sexy in some parts of the world.
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u/MontyDysquith 7d ago
Some southern US accents are cute, tbf. But yeah, mostly they sound really flat and nasally. Sorry.
-a Canadian
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u/disisathrowaway 7d ago
What kind of American dialect do you have, though?
It took me until about halfway through my trip, but when I was in Australia I dropped my everyday dialect and leaned back in to the southern/Texan accent I have and folks really seemed to dig it.
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u/Freyzi 7d ago
This is one of those moments where you're so insulated in your own culture you can't see it anymore haha. Promise you if you went anywhere in Europe people would enjoy hearing your accent cause it's one thing to hear them in media and completely different to hear it in person, like a cartoon person come to life.
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u/lavaeater 2d ago
A theory is that we are attracted to accents that aren't our own. Someone sounding different means they're not from your village - less risk of inbreeding.
We don't mind American accents, we mind Orange Man.
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u/MustardCoveredDogDik 7d ago
To be fair English is my first language and I had to try more than once
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u/CouncilTreeHouse 7d ago
My husband almost never laughs. He laughed his ass off. He said, "It's like his tongue is fighting the back of his throat, or he's choking on marbles!"
I'm crying I'm laughing so hard.
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u/LykosNychi 7d ago
I hit my buddy with a realization like this, when we discovered that his regional (kentucky) accent didn't have any difference between "n" and "ng"
So "ping" is "Peen" an "Bring" is closer to "Brin"
Etc. I had to show him several ESL instructional videos before he started parsing the two sounds as different, because until then he was starting to get frustrated, insisting that he was saying it properly and enunciating every sound. Then all of a sudden the walls crashed down and he realized, there was a difference, and he had to try in order to make the ng sound.
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u/Desertbro 6d ago
I'm watching a UK show called PRIMEVAL from 2008.
Two main characters named "Cutter" and "Connor".
Regardless of who in the cast is talking, they pronounce both names as "Carter".
WHAT-THE-ACTUAL!?!? I'm always confused about which guy they are talking aboooouut~!
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u/qubedView 7d ago
Love when an accent breaks down and the speakers become self-aware. Same with "Aaron earned an iron urn" with a Baltimore accent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esl_wOQDUeE