Best Scottish Accent Ever! Kevin Patterson with Tweedswood 

Anyone got the lyrics?

Spaniard guy learning english here. Wrong video.

A Scot and a southern American talking together.... I can die now.

Damn it! Just as I thought I can understand english.

Do you speak English? *Scottish person* : Weel aye, bit actually na.

Americans: "Wow that Scottish guy has a crazy accent!" Scots: "Wow that American has a crazy accent!"

Southern US vs Scottish... two mad accents LOL

I love how they both somehow understand each other

Its funny how Kevin is actually trying to sound more clear when talking to the American. This isn't exactly what you would hear if you where speaking to him as another Scottish guy.

It’s crazy how the first thirty seconds I was like: WHAT LANGUAGE IS THIS? and by the end I could understand him perfectly

This accent is amazing, even tho his accent wasn't as thick as I was expecting, I still couldn't understand a lot of words he was saying lol

The American's accent was strong too.

I understood every word of that proud Scotsman here

i can listen to this guy for hours, loving the scottish accent

The title must be: The CLASH of ACCENTS

This video is testament to how diverse the English language is; an American deep south accent and a broad Scottish accent. Wonderful! lol

I almost choke to death when i turned the captions on...

Yes, i agree with him...Messi is better than Ronaldo

Transcription of Kevin's answers: 1. My name's Kevin Patterson and I'm a guide on the River Tweed, like. We're standing here down in the Borders. We're just outside Melrose, which is a famous town. Over the back of us, here, we've got the Eildons, one of the most famous landmarks of the Borders. It's three hills, and the myth is that Merlin the magician split one hill into three, and it left the two hills at the back of us which you can see. The weather's never good... They always say, in the Borders, if the mist's on the Eildon's we never get the good weather and, as you can see today, there's no sunshine It's a typical Scottish Borders day! 2. Tweed Guides, that's just been set up...it's about in its third year now, like. And we bring people over, from all walks of life, and we bring them fishing anywhere they want to go. Um...we use the Tweed, we use all the tributaries of the Tweed, and we just want to get people thegither to have fun and enjoy fishing...together. 3, I reckon, um...to start enjoying fly-fishing if... As long as you're happy just to go out, enjoy the scenery and take in just what all happens with it, like. You can enjoy it in a day -- two days is plenty time as long as you enjoy it, like. It's very important that you put it... put it totally out your mind about catching and just enjoy the casting and enjoy the scenery around you. 4. Well, a day like today we'd be looking for a spring salmon, a late-running spring salmon. The early salmon will just be starting to come up now, which we call the summer salmon. We've got the grilse and, uh, there'll be a few sea trout beginning to come forward. This a good time of the year, like, and it's just the start of the summer fishing. The spring fishing's just coming to an end. He's doing very well at the moment, actually, He just needs to slow things down just a little bit, um, he just wants to take his time on his forward cast. We'll have him... By the end of the morning, we'll have him... All that'll be sorted out, like. But the secret is...is give the people their space. Let them fish, let them get in the river, let them enjoy the fishing -- let them feel the rods. Don't be on their case all day, like. I can soon sort it out, it just takes five minutes. There's a perfect example. Only been fishing for the last 20 minutes and look at that -- perfect anchor point, perfect looping across the river. 6. Melrose Abbey -- just across... we can't quite see it from here, but it's just through the trees on the other side there, like. You can actually just see the main tower. Just through the trees, you can just see... 7. [About the sheep crap.] Aye, I know! You can see the top of Melrose... See the top of the Abbey there? ...See it just... there's kind of...just the bit sticking up. That's Melrose Abbey, like. 8. It's... Well, one of the big points of that is, uh, Robert the Bruce's heart's buried there. ... Yeah, they brought it back after he died, and they buried his heart in the Abbey, like. And they actually dug it up, uh, a few years back, and tried to put a DNA test... Yeah, to see what was what with it, like. And then it was all put back in again. But the monks of Melrose are very famous, and they brewed the famous mead that came out the Melrose Abbey, like. The ground we're standing on at the moment was actually...was all owned by the monks. All this flat plain you see in front of you, this was all owned by the monks of Melrose, like -- and they farmed this, like. There's actually a wall runs from the bottom at the river there, comes right up here. You cannae see it but it is there. It goes right round that corner and right back up to the Abbey, like. And that was their boundary. But uh, it's a very famous, and one of the oldest abbeys that there is in Scotland, like. 9. Yeah, it's a big Roman area, like. Newstead, which was one of the biggest and earliest settlements of the Romans, is just in the village behind us. Again, we can't quite see it for the trees and the stuff that's there. But the Romans settled here. And they had a fort on the top of the hill, just on the top of that hill there, like. And there's a lot of people come for this area to look at the.. the Roman fort and all the different stuff, like. 10. Yeah, there's a lot of bits and pieces. Yeah, it's very, very steeped in history, the Roman history, this area, like. Uh, when there was just a small settlement in Newstead, like. It goes back and all -- there are books and all the writing-up, and you can look back on the history, and it's always mentioned, Newstead. [About looking it up.]...Oh, definitely, like. Aye. (Kevin's using Standard English vocabulary, "little" instead of "wee" etc, and modifying some pronunciation towards SE, to be more comprehensible to foreigners. He uses one or two structures characteristic of Scots English (eg "over the back of us": "out your mind" vs of "out of your mind" and "get the good weather" vs "get good weather"). Most Scots don't realise our syntax is a bit different from Standard English even when we're using all SE vocabulary.)

I've spoken English for all my life and I only understood like 20% of that

The southern guys accent is just as strong 💀

The interviewer's accent is one of the nicest American accents I've ever heard.

I love the clash of accents here: the Scottish and the American southern.

The Irish Farmers Lose Their Sheep, Mad Accent is weirder than this guy's accent.

I think it needs to be said that Kevin is using his "foreigner compatible" best Sunday accent here. Rest assured, he doesn't speak to his wife and kids with such clear enunciation. ,-)

"As you can see today, there's no sunshine". I did my best.

I didn't understand a damn thing but I love the accent 😂

Wow, I can actually understand him! And English isn't even my native language :D I feel that I've passed the ultimate test...

i'm Norwegian and this is easy to understand

I got like 8 words

Two beautiful accents! I hope TV and the internet don't cause regional accents to disappear. So interesting to listen to.

Husband is from scotland, when we first met, he sounded like this. Absolutely unintelligible! I had to nod and smile my way through the first date, much easier to break apart now.

Everybody's gangsta till you turn on the closed captioning.

"there's no shunSHANE" lol i cant stop laughing

why does he look like "little Finger"????

I am proud to say that I understood 5 words. "Water, People, All, yeah, no". I am very proud of myself. So proud of myself.

Have subtitles on and laugh your ass off

The fact that I’m here because I matched with a Scottish guy on tinder and need to learn to understand a Scottish accent😂

The meeting of two mountain accents...

hd camera in 2007, wow

English is not my mother language, and now that I know how to speak it, I find myself watching this and feeling like I'm seven again (when I started learning English)

I'm from Ohio and I understood 90% of this, only when background noise came in or the mic was turned away did I lose him. I do a lot of Scottish research though and am getting very comfortable with the written form of Scots and the different dialects. He has a VERY clean accent compared to other Scots accents.

The nicest sweetest people i met ever. God bless Scotland. Love from pakistan 🇵🇰

England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales - the historical homeland of most Americans, Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders

I'll be studying in Scotland.. I decided to check Scottish accent out.. I thought I knew English.. X.X

Spanish here. I've learned my english in York, were I lived for a few years. I thought their accent was difficult to understand. THEN I went to Edinburgh and OMG. When I got the hang of it I went to Dublin. No words... Guess I like to challenge myself 😂

That wasn't even a broad Scots accent. I had to concentrate more on the American to follow the conversation.

About = A boot

I'm Scottish and have more difficulty understanding the American, where in the USA is he from?

It’s just so funny how they’re both two extreme accents of the English language 😁

Swedish guy here, understod everything... how can people with english as their first language have trouble understanding what hes saying? ._.

At first I thought he was really speaking Scottish

Uk person: doesnt understand Scotish Me( Serbian person): understands Scotish Also me: Maybe i have super powers

Every word I read in the comments sounds Scottish to me now

It's funny to see the mutual effort they have to see to understand each other :) Two equally diverse accents As a Brit, it's interesting to note that the Scottish man is the easier to understand :)

Everyone's saying how Scottish he sounds, but I'm fascinated by how English he sounds. I grew up in Newcastle, which is the northernmost big city in England (and 70 miles south of Melrose) - and it's really interesting how similar his accent is to mine - much more than even people from Edinburgh (who can sound a bit Geordie at times). Some of the traditional accents in rural Northumberland would be pretty much impossible to tell apart from his. Just shows that despite the political border being there for centuries, the cultural or linguistic boundary is still pretty vague.

I am from Canada and I understood everything, we have a lot of people who sound like him here.

This guy's accent is unintelligible. The Scottish guy is clear as a bell, though! ;)

I can't understand a single word he said

If this man was the last Scot alive, he'd be the blueprint for his language. Beautiful!

My whole life is a waste now

*Who's here from STRONGEST IRISH ACCENT*

This guy's accent is not that strong, I could actually understand everything. :)

It's interesting to read native English speakers having problems to understand their own language spoken with a different accent to the point of saying that it sounds like a different language to them.

I've watched Peaky Blinders enough times to understand this fellow citizen

I've got more difficulty understanding the American. Melrose Abbey houses Robert the Bruce's heart which was taken there after coming under attack by Moors in Spain and on the way to the Holy Land by James Douglas. Bruce in common with many knights of the period wanted his heart taken to the Holy Land on death.

I was roaming in London a few years ago. At one of the tube stations, I needed to ask for directions and I ended up talking to a cop who was probably from Scotland. I asked my question and apparently he offered a reasonable answer. Trust me I was as lost as I originally was because I simply did not understand a single word of what the cop told me. With a courtesy smile and a thank you, I left him and resorted to a map of London that had much clearer information.

He’s probably having a hard time understanding the southern accent himself 😂😂

He's modifying his pronunciation for clarity a bit, towards more standard-English pronunciation. Talking to his friends, he'd sound a bit different. You can hear if he goes on for a bit he lapses more from the telephone-voice towards his more natural speech. To a Scottish ear, the (?southern) American accent in this vid is very pleasant, very clear diction, a nice lilt to it, easy to undertsand.

Love it! It's like a poem. His accent has a flow.

How they understand each other ?? Scottish accent is wonderful

Thanks to Craig Ferguson I can understand most of this. It is quite jarring, though, when it goes back to the Southern American accent. It's kind of like one's mind needs to go onto a different track for the different accents. Love it.

I heard 3% of this

Brazilian dude trying to practice some listening. Guess I'm in the wrong place.

I'm an American & have been studying/listening to the Scottish accent (mainly Glaswegian as it's my favorite) for the last 2.5 years & I am proud to say I probably only missed about 6 words of what he said. I hope to be visiting Glasgow next year or the year after & cannot wait to get lost in the culture & the accents of course lol I hope I'll be able to understand nearly 98% of the people I speak to when I get there.

Two of my favourite accents speaking to eachother. Rare treat.

English isn’t my first language and I can understand this man , I don’t know how

It seems that the auto-subtitle just get confused :v

As a non-native English speaker I find Scottish and Irish both reasonbly easy to understand. Your pronunciations are quite sharp and expressive. Very enjoyable to listen to imo.

been studying english for like 14 years now, I use english-speaking media every single day and I can't remember the last time since I genuinely did not understand what someone was saying

I couldn't understand a word he was saying. LOL

Oh my word! What a combination! A Scottish gentleman and a Southern American. I can't believe they could understand each other!

Came here to remember what English sounded like to me before I could speak it

I've been to Scotland for a week and for my non-native-English ears, most of the people sounded like that :) Which is absolutely fine and you get used to it rather quickly. I was already starting to think I understand Scottish accent but I happened to ask that old couple how to find a laundry...

Iconic , a southern American and a Scottish accent together

If one truly knows the southern Appalachian dialect, and listen to this fine gentleman's dialect, there are so many similarities. Love it.

he's talking about jesus

It's funny how my brain has to really re-focus when switching back and forth between the two accents. I think all accents are interesting and tell us so much about regional histories and the lives of people, and I'm really glad when people document them.

This reminds me somewhat of the languages we speak in scandinavia.

I’m from birmingham and I understand this guy, typical white british accent, a bit stronger 😄

I'm actually really proud that I have no problem understanding this guys anymore, after nearly 7 years living in Scotland though 😂

I'm American, and it's almost harder to understand the American than the Scot.

My great grandfather was Scottish and settled in Montana. He was a fly fisherman, his son was, his son was, and I am. Its almost a requirement to know how to do this in my family. Such a pleasure to see where it all started.

American dude sounds like he's from mobile Alabama

My name's Kevin Patterson, and I'll be yer guide on yer quest

He sounds aberdonian, I’m from Aberdeen and that’s how everyone speaks up here

I'm from Tennessee, and practically all of us are of Ulster Scots ancestry; consequently, our native "South Midland" U.S. Southern accent is actually heavily derived from various incarnations of Scottish and Irish accents. (Again, I'm talking about the "South Midland" accent, not the overblown "Virginia Plantation" U.S. Southern accent--like "Whah, Ahm jes' so happeh ta be heah"; very few people here actually speak like that--I'm talking more like Channing Tatum-meets-Matthew McConaughey with some Billy Bob Thornton sprinkled in.) Consequently, I have no trouble whatsoever understanding virtually every regional Scottish accent from Stranraer to Kirkwall. (And, yes, that includes the Glaswegian accent. ;^) ) Scottish accents are my favorites of all English language accents; they're pure music to my ears!

when I was a young, I had the coolest Scottish friends, him and his brother always like to play football with me and the local kids (Solomon Islands)...I wonder what he's up to now

Living in west Virginia and being around thick accents I can honestly understand everything he says lol

I am Belgian and I understood about 75%. I could listen to people speaking scottish FOR HOURS