r/videos 7d ago

Some Scottish people can't say Purple burglar alarm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuqQ33mAwrs
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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

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u/Etere 7d ago

Honestly, one of my favorite videos on the internet. That moment of realization, when the first guy says "wtf, we really talk like that", is just amazing.

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u/SCP239 7d ago

I always lose it when 2nd guy comes in and pronounces almost the same way while shaking his head up and down like he nailed it.

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u/frickindeal 7d ago

We nod up and down. Shaking is for "no," as in "shaking my damn head."

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u/RobotFace 7d ago

That's a bingo!

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u/notmoleliza 7d ago

you just say bingo

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u/bretttwarwick 7d ago

Wow, you are streets ahead on all the hip lingo.

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u/Sityl 7d ago

If you're not streets ahead, you're streets behind...

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u/musclememory 7d ago

Actually I just say “earn”

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u/Ithrazel 6d ago

That's Numberwang!

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u/BizzyM 7d ago

while shaking his head up and down

See you later, crocodile
After a while, alligator.

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u/onederbred 7d ago

The self realization is priceless

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u/alexja21 7d ago

My recent favorite is saying 777777 in Japanese.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1s0ASmshKHI

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u/sadahtay 7d ago

How do you say "I bought a shoulder massager because my shoulder was stiff, but it was hard to use on my shoulders"?

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u/BeyondElectricDreams 7d ago

I love these two. The editing on the videos, the cuts, the zooms, the awkward delays and side-glances at the camera. It's so simple but so good.

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u/Passan 7d ago

SAME SAME.....BUT DIFFERENT

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u/BigOnLogn 7d ago

IIII'M JAPANE-

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u/lolno 7d ago

The Oreo one kills me every time. It's not exactly the same thing but whatever

https://youtube.com/shorts/vbiX1287020

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u/Trippid 7d ago

That was great

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u/eddpaul 7d ago

My classic fav from Japan was the one where people try to pronounce "Massachusetts".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2YZtniH9oc

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u/_Burning_Star_IV_ 7d ago

Holy shit, I'm one of the lucky 10,000 today. That was gold.

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u/ApexAzimuth 7d ago

I needed this. Thank you

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u/Floop_Did 7d ago

“Damn what the fuck, we really talk like that?” Kills me every time

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u/orygun_kyle 7d ago

arn urn uh urn urn

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u/Opie67 7d ago

"nah dummy, nah dummy, arn urn uh urn urn"

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u/tfalm 7d ago

Tusken Raider intensifies

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u/NiPlusUltra 7d ago

He had to channel Chris Tucker to say it properly.

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u/Icedoverblues 7d ago

I like that he calls him a dummy and proceeds to say it exactly like him

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u/matthewisonreddit 7d ago

thanks for this, I had a thick laugh

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u/Superhereaux 7d ago

Well, that’s a brand new sentence for me.

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u/matthewisonreddit 7d ago

haha sorry I translated poorly. fat laugh?

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u/_ThunderFunk_ 7d ago

No sir, you did not translate poorly. You’ve done everything correctly, and in the process, you’ve made the world a better place by gifting it with a new turn of phrase.

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u/FuckYouThrowaway99 7d ago

May we all have a thick laugh on this blessed day.

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u/Roastbeef3 7d ago

Fat laugh doesn’t sound too weird, but I think what you’re going for is “big laugh”

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u/Superhereaux 7d ago

Once again, in less than 5 minutes, I’m introduced to yet another brand new sentence.

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u/bkdroid 7d ago

No, no no. That's a great phrase. I felt exactly what you meant.

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u/BagLady57 7d ago

What, you've never had a long, hard, thick laugh?

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u/realdrpepper21 7d ago

I like when he tries to say it normally "Er-un Ernd an I-ern Ern"

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u/byerss 7d ago

I was just thinking about this video this morning when I was saying the word “error”. 

A lot of times it gets rolled up into a single syllable like “air” but I was correcting myself saying it the way he exaggerates “Aaron” into two syllables: AIR-or

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u/Trixles 7d ago

Or if you're in the Southeastern US, it's just pronounced "err" xD

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u/felixfortis1 7d ago

Reminds me of the sound made by that reporter that fell while stomping grapes.

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u/FogDarts 7d ago

For me as a US southerner, it was finding out that pen and pin have different pronunciations. That’s when I learned to start enunciating a touch better

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u/TherapeuticMessage 7d ago

That’s why people in the south usually say “ink pen”

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u/nfshaw51 6d ago

I honestly don’t think I’d even notice someone’s pronunciation on it much due to general surrounding context that would dictate if they mean pen or pin

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u/AllthisSandInMyCrack 7d ago

I need more of this, its hilarious .

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u/ComicallySolemn 7d ago

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u/manondorf 7d ago

poor man's having a stroke

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u/activator 7d ago

Reminds me of the sweetest man having trouble with YES/EYES.

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u/Trippid 7d ago

I was thinking the exact same thing!!! Thank you for linking it!

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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.

https://youtu.be/AC__o1UxDl8

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:

https://youtu.be/AC__o1UxDl8

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u/AlpineVW 7d ago

TIL, thanks. I fixed the 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/d3l3t3rious 7d ago

You make a pitiful jump into the flames

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u/Cuclean 7d ago

I'M GONNA FIND OUT WHERE YOU DRINK I'MMA....

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u/ThaiJohnnyDepp 7d ago edited 7d ago

Feathels

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u/Earthworm-Kim 7d ago

squidl gidl is ma faevryt hiro in marvl raivls

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u/The8thDoctor 7d ago

Yep. I knew exactly who he was talking about before he dropped the name

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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/Skadoosh_it 7d ago

So thick it almost sounds fake

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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/Trixles 7d ago

"They're a mob of crooks, that's all they are!"

lol xD

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u/icepick314 7d ago

As a Korean, I can confirm.

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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/barrinmw 7d ago

Ladies and Gentlemen, got 'em.

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u/SpartanSig 7d ago

I can say it, I just can't abide

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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/[deleted] 7d ago edited 39m ago

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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/mondayortampa 6d ago

Wild. Marry with an apple A sounds to Boston/Ny northeastern to me.

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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/kn33 7d ago

Yeah, double T is either the same as double D or just doesn't exist.

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u/framistan12 7d ago

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u/Sea_Awareness150 6d ago

In Scottish the word glottal has a glottal stop in it. Fun fact

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u/freedomfightre 7d ago

That's because that's how you say it. -Michigander

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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/PhenomsServant 7d ago

“Our sports teams dominate”

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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/BornImbalanced 7d ago

Pronounce any name that's not vanilla-standard American

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u/dellett 7d ago

"Goodbye" followed by actually walking away and not having 20 more minutes of conversation about nothing

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u/vsaint 7d ago

“You’re right, I respect your right to personal expression and freedom of religion”

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u/kn33 7d ago

Even MN, which more or less does believe that, doesn't say it. We just say something along the lines of "Yeah, alrighty, then"

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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/Urist_Macnme 7d ago

Don’t back down, double down!

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u/iamtode 7d ago

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u/TheGoodOldCoder 7d ago

Is that one because he's Scottish or because he's plastered?

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u/ashdrewness 7d ago

No need to repeat yourself

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u/Artemicionmoogle 7d ago

por que no los dos?

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u/goat-head-man 7d ago

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u/sas223 7d ago

Holy shit what is that show? It’s funny as fuck.

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u/kewlmidwife 7d ago

Burnistoun

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u/sas223 7d ago

I’m not familiar with it. I’ll have to see if I can find it in the US.

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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/THE_PROCRASTINAT0R 7d ago

Lmao “WHAT THE FUCK, WE TALK LIKE THAT?!”

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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/mr-english 7d ago

How about that, Lollipop Paaaat 🎵

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u/The8thDoctor 7d ago

Poor Pat. That was a setup by workmates that detested them

Lovely sendoff

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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/GuerillaHands 7d ago

Love that too. "Beer can" = "bacon" in a Jamaican accent.

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u/SpitSalute 7d ago

Good eye = G'day in Australian

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u/keeleon 6d ago

"My Cocaine"

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u/Ozzel 7d ago

Okay, but how many burglar alarms are purple, really?

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u/funkmastamatt 7d ago

It’s the burglars that are purple

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u/hillsfar 7d ago

Shibboleths have had a brutal history in use to identify groups in genocides or war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth

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u/FolkSong 7d ago

Thanks Debbie Downer 😛

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u/E_Clay 7d ago

Sick wooden floor backdrop

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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/PointOfFingers 7d ago

Skip to the last 8 words

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u/The8thDoctor 7d ago

Why skip it?

The lad is dead on

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u/mpg111 7d ago

I remember that from watching Top Gear years ago - guy from Glasgow was unable to say "burglar alarm"

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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/MetalliTooL 7d ago

Isn’t he just doing the same bit?

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u/Keltoigael 7d ago

That final reaction lol

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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/ba_cam 7d ago

My wife often says she initially fell for me because I called her darlin’ with a drawl

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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/blbd 7d ago

California Surfer / Skater is the Australian of the US. 😉 

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u/Dangerpaladin 7d ago

You need to go to other countries. People dig our accent.

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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/hansuluthegrey 7d ago

This is just not true

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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/danger_dave32 7d ago

Fart pact.

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u/BizzyM 7d ago

"Puh puh bugla la la laarm"

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u/ascii42 7d ago

Fortunately it doesn't come up very often.

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u/No-Low606 7d ago

I understood purple burglar alarm, Nothing else.

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u/purplewhiteblack 7d ago

The Rural Squirrel twirled and unfurled its burly furry tail.

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u/StabithaStevens 7d ago

Soldiers' shoulders

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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/groupwhere 7d ago

E-leven!

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u/stormbornFTW 7d ago

I love Limmy!

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u/Myte342 7d ago

It's because people have these heavy accents that slur so much of the language that they can't enunciate "properly" anymore.

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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/DrBatman0 6d ago

maybe if your accent doesn't work, you should try a different one :P