American Couple Reacts: 101 Facts About SCOTLAND! FIRST TIME REACTION!! 

Forget the haggis? Do you have any idea how long it takes to hunt for them... they are nearly as rare as the Loch Ness monster! 😲

Nessie loves her haggis.. the Highlands would be overrun with the wee three-legged bachles if Nessie didnae scoff so many o them! 😃

@@slaintejimmy That is so very true... as you can probably tell i'm a lowlander but thankfully Nessie allows those of us in the Capital to have a small quota of haggis... sadly many foreigners don't realise how lucky they are that we in the South of Scotland are willing to share some of that quota with them... oh well. it's their loss i guess 🤣

Forget the traditional haggis if you must - but do try the vegetarian variety, please!

Scotland were put out of the rugby world cup last k the by Ireland

"Ur ka hart castle" particularly pained me (also Lock Ayyber) - edit, had to stop at 60. It was too much.

Also Alba, but so many Scottish Gaelic names and words are distorted by non Gaelic speakers such as Glaschu (Glasgow).

He also said Gay-lic and not Gah-lic! But yes, Hebrides was Correct.

@@Duchessofdukestreet Yes. I hear that often in Glasgow and the surrounding areas because of the high levels of people with Irish ancestry, I also notice the tendancy to spell surnames with "Mc" where as in the Outer Hebrides the spelling is more often "Mac".

Ironically he mispronounced Alnwick and it’s in England.

Dolly the sheeps Scottish, Rockstar games, GTA is Scottish , there's so much much more we've invented

You forgot the steam turbine

Me too! Scotland has produced more groundbreaking, world-changing inventions per capita than any other country. Might be something to do with Scotland's dedication to learning - which is something this video didn't really bring out. Scotland had compulsory schooling before the rest of the UK, schools in almost every village, and a well organised school system before that. People had to be smart and independent to thrive in Scotland: they couldn't wait for other people to invent things - they did it themselves!! One of my ancestors was a schoolmaster in the remote Highlands and Orkney - he taught English, Latin, Greek, geography, history, maths, science and much more to crofters' children. There's been at least one teacher in each of the 8 generations descended from him. From his name and clan, we know he was descended from Norse people and Picts. Oh, did anyone notice that the video also left out PORAGE?!! A heinous oversight! A Scot would never have done that! (My ancestry.com results show that I've 93% porage DNA! I was made in Aberdeen though I'm pretty sure there was no granite involved.) And he got Hebrides right but made a midden of quite a few other names. Alnwick is pronounced Annick, he did something weird with Farquhar and Loch Shiel...

Cash card also

I think it's funny that the founder of the Bank of England was Scottish!!!

Love his channel

I agree. His videos are well worth watching. He was a teacher here in Perthshire for many years and then became a stand up comedian, but is very knowledgeable about Scottish history. Well worth watching!

If it makes it better...clan is spelt with a c.

If you ever go to Orkney, stop in Wick and I'll treat you to a coffee. (I'm so generous).

Aye he does a grand job of reading you all English books.

Doesn't Aberdeen have the highest natural background radiation in the world because of all the granite?

@@robertwatford7425 I'm not aware of any statistics on it but thankfully no five legged children here to my knowledge lol .

@@sapienthaggis3466 I expect they're hiding...

Obar Dheathain ma hame toon

It's also known as the Silver City (on the Golden Sands) because of that

Glad you brought that out so many think it was Scotland v England. There were more Scots on the winning side than on the losing one!

Nothing has changed Scotland is still divided over religion it’s really sickening tbh

Stuart, surely?

The spelling ‘Stuart’ is the French form, as a letter ‘w’ is a rarity in the French language. Both forms have their place.

Both political and religious.

Yeah the Gaelic always gets mispronounced as gay-lick, so annoying!

So many Scottish people get that wrong too! I’m always correcting people 😅

@@Hilowrious Garlick? Gallick more like!

Oh I’m Scottish and didn’t know the correct pronunciation 🤣 but We don’t even speak it. Only a few thousand even know it I think?

@@gra-emed3617 according to Google, 60,000 😊 I did Gaelic in school from the ages of 10-15 I only remember the basics though

Get up here you will love it, it's a myth we hate the English, after all the hundreds of years together we are brothers and sisters, indeed my grandfather was a Yorkshire man, we all have our traditions and culture but we are as one.

For some reason I can't see the replies to my comment

We use haddock and you use cod … but its like everything else there are good and bad chippys

Come up here pal, despite what a lot of people say or think ,we love The English.

HaHa! I hadn't heard that before but it sounds like something a Shetlander would do....

It was Jo Grimond, leader of the Liberal Party before Jeremy Thorpe. It was a stupidly worded question on his travel expenses claim so, atypically for most politicians, he told the truth!

Like the US navy for instance.

Oh, there were many more Scottish inventions than just those mentioned! Rubber is one, from which we developed the concept of waterproof overcoats and wellington boots; the bicycle, macadamisation of road surfaces, the pneumatic tyre, tubular steel, the thermodynamic cycle, coal-gas lighting, field intelligence, wire rope, Cordite, roller printing presses, adhesive postage stamps, ATMs, Radar, the Kinestoscope, universal standard time, picture postcards, logarithms, modern economics and sociology, hypnotism, tropical medicine, modern geology, electromagnetism, the decimal point, the Gregorian telescope, criminal fingerprinting, the Noble Gases, statistical graphics, the arithmetical calculation of the density of the earth, the seismometer, the saline drip, general anaesthesia, vaccines for smallpox and typhoid, electrocardiography, staphylococcus, radiation therapy, decompression tables, standard Opthamology, treatment of tuberculosis, oxygen therapy, beta-blockers, Glasgow Coma, Outcome, Anxiety & Depression Scales, vacuum flasks, chainsaws, matches, cotton reel thread, kaleidoscope, the piano foot pedal, lime cordial, beef extract, the electric clock, automatic telegraphy, Irn-Bru, the breech-loading rifle, the percussion cap and scores of other discoveries and major developmental processes in the scientific, medical, communicative, sports, arts, leisure, cultural, agricultural, heavy industrial, shipbuilding, transport infrastructural, engineering, power, military and aviation fields. It should perhaps be remembered that from the 15th to 19th Centuries there were only six universities in the whole of Great Britain - of which four were in Scotland!

I salute you Paul you are a very patriotic Scot .

​​@@paulharvey9149Rubber wasn't invented: it is a natural substance that has been known and used for thousands of years, including for waterproofing. The English chemist, Joseph Priestley, was the first to notice it could be used to rub out pencil marks on paper and the substance acquired the name "rubber" for that reason. It is very likely that Scots developed processes to use it more widely. Whom did you have in mind? Charles MacIntosh dissolved rubber on naphtha and sandwiched it between two layers of fabric to create his waterproof garments.

Hi Sharon am a Lanarkshire lass too Airdrie.

@@janice506 "Where's like us?" "There's nain like us!" LOL. If you're under 45 you may not remember or know that little saying. 😂😃

I am born and bred in motherwell

@@tomwoods7120 😘☺

Came here to say this 😂

2 fairly important inventions left out are Tarmac (precursor of asphalt), invented by McAdam, and no big surprise that a Scotsman, Charles Macintosh, invented the waterproof coat, or 'Mack' for our luvly weather. 😃

Hi girls. Enjoyed the video. I learnt something too. I'm from the granite city Aberdeen never knew our granite was used to build so many of London's buildings. I remember when I was a child in the 60's hearing the alarm at Rubislaw quarry for the men's break. Yep that was the name of the quarry where all that granite came from. By the way was cringing at some of his pronunciations. Wish you could hear the correct way. Apart from that really enjoyed the video. Love from Aberdeen 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I would say London has done very well from Aberdeen between the Granite & the North Sea oil Aberdeen has been well & truly rinsed by the Uk government

The Crown of Scotland was also laid on her coffin in Edinburgh; in England it was the Imperial State Crown. The Scottish Crown is the oldest British crown still in use, having been hidden from Cromwell after the English Civil War and the Bishop's Wars, together with the sceptre and sword.

i emigrated to Australia 40yrs ago with my husband and two boys and i still call England home, my eldest son has lived in Edinburgh for 21 yrs but he calls Australia home.

I'm impressed you've stayed away for 52 years, I'm like a homing pigeon, I always wind up back in Fife whenever I try to leave lol

Waving at you from Fife! 👋

Hiya tae you fae here in yer hame Toon! I used tae live right across the road fae the Abbey! Am the other side o The Glen noo 👋🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👋🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👋🖤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🤍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤

@@paulsmith2516 I used tae live in Drum Road, and ma gran lived in Wedderburn crescent

Yes, that would make for a very interesting if moving video. It was indeed a genocide. Some folk call it the Highland Diaspora, those that weren't bayonetted, shot or burnt to death by the Redcoats were marched to ships waiting to take them to Newfoundland, Labrador, Canada.

Not to mention the pneumatic tyre.....by John Boyd Dunlop, from Edinburgh.

Although it’s likely that Scotland buys/sells more Buckfast than anywhere else, it would have been wrong to include it in this list seeing as how it’s from Buckfast Abbey in Devon. 😊

It might be brewed in England mate but it’s Scots who have been drinking it all my lifetime anyway 51 yrs so thank you to the Monks of Devon from Scotland

@@janice506 You are so right 👍. Apologies for my mistake, lol, I've taken it for granted because it's been such an alcoholic drink that is consumed by the bucket load in Scotland . Thanks for the lesson. ✨

@@lynnejamieson2063 You are so right, so apologies for the mix up. It's been an alcoholic beverage in Scotland for as long as I've been born and I'm 60, lol. I've just taken it for granted that it was from Scotland. Thanks for the history behind it. ✨

@@Albusolar understandable, I just happen to be a Scot who lived in the Westcountry for a good number of years.

There are actually several. Queen Victoria had them built to commemorate her husband and the births of their children!

I've done the NC500 more than a few times because I stayed up there. It's fabulous and breathtaking every time.

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Wonder if I know it, thistle be fun lol

g'morning Hun', I think you will but I've a weird observation that no one else spotted last year, connected to my fact. 😉 ..and I couldn't resist the 'thistle b fun' drop. 😄

Well I wait in anticipation lol I live in the Stirling area what part of Scotland are you from

I'm Sunny Port Glasgow-by-the-sea.. .. birthplace of The Comet, (which is a whole different fact 🙃) 'doon the waatir. 😉

My fun fact was that Scotland and England have different Royal Standards.. the Royal Standard of Scotland includes the Scottish arms (Lion Rampant) in the first and fourth quarters and English arms (3 Lions) only in the second.. I'll elaborate my weird observation in a fresh comment.. to do with HR Majesty's funeral.

The narrator did well with some of the Scottish pronunciations, was very wrong on others (Gaelic- Scottish Gaelic is pronounced as gah lick, but the strangest moments were when he got English words wrong …. Alnwick forsooth! AAhnnick

Glad you enjoyed it!

We will never have to worry about water the lochs run deep

I totally agree the SNP have been terrible for Scotland I did vote for independence but I wouldn’t now after Brexit which I did vote for , Scotland is stronger being in a union with England Wales & NI .

you can't genuinely think that anyone believes you 🤣@@janice506

@@janice506 Totally disagree with you. I would vote again for independence, as I did before, and am desperate to be free from, rather than tied to the UK government. It is the UK government that has been terrible for Scotland. Once we have independence, we will get what we vote for, not what England votes for. Independence is not about one party, it is bigger than that. SNP are simply a vehicle, not the destination, you wouldn't refuse to get into a life boat because you don't like the colour when it could take you to safety, particularly as you can vote to change the colour when you get there.

*Scots

What a line Learn to Suffer that just about sums up all Scots tbf

Your so sad is it a jealousy thing because we happen to suck at most sports . I was cheering on the lionesses when they won the euros & the World Cup along with Ireland.

@@janice506 It's called humour, Scotland and England have a friendly rivalry, I will admit that some people take it to far, but for me it's just a wee bit of friendly one upmanship, especially when it comes to winding up the English part of my family, and they do the same to me.