SCOTTISH ACCENT IN OUTLANDER 

Shaun, thanks for all these vlogs. Loving them. Just to set straight a couple of things you mentioned in this video - Grant O'Rourke who plays Rupert (of Angus and Rupert) lives in Edinburgh, so the two of you would probably be accent twins. Oh, and the brilliant Bill Paterson who plays Ned Gowan - Ned does keep the MacKenzie accounts, but is really a lawyer. Just a wee bit of Outlander trivia for you. Keep up the good work!

Shaun, you are great and sweet and funny, and you talk soooooo much but it makes me start to learn scotish

LMAO you should be making money, you are really funny. Apart from that, I love that your name is spelled the same as my son, Shaun. :) Shari R

Hate to say it Shaun, but as a Scot myself, much as I like your accent because all Scottish accents sound like home, it is not 'refined' and not really like Sam Heughan's at all. I would not have described you as having a George St accent. You have far too many glottal stops for that and your vowels are too fronted. I think you also have a mild case of Edinburgh accent superiority. :) Listen to people like Annie Lennox (Aberdeen), Kirsty Young (East Kilbride) or Peter Capaldi (Glasgow), Andy Murray (Dunblane), or Ewan McGregor (Crieff) to hear refined accents from other parts of Scotland. Also, there are people in Scotland outside the Gàidhealtachd who can do a Highland accent, though I will say that they're mostly older people who heard more Highland accents when they were young. Glasgow especially had a huge influx from the Highlands and many Glaswegians today had Highland grandparents who spoke Gaelic.

Haha!! Yes. I love how shocked he is

Omg yasss it’s so cute 🥺🥺🥺

Claire! Woht have ye done te yer honeypot!

One of the best parts!

One of my favorite parts!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

We basque speakers say that euskera (the Basque language) is our homeland. I understand very well what Emil Cioran meant!

"Nous ne vivons pas dans un pays, nous vivons dans une langue"

This applies so well to Quebec

He was Romanian. Moving to France didn't make him French.

wow, I quoted it in my Chinese blog, I am against Commie China dystopian doctrines which anyone should put country before your hometown/dialects.

Heather L I have a Welsh husband. His accent is what caught my attention

Well give me a message if you would like 1 😉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👌

Oh God yes. Pair that with a kilt.

@@rachealforrest5542 kilts are so difficult to do I have to get my dad to do mine

@@august8090 but so worth it, in my opinion.

Me too! Lol!

Same here hahahaha

Me too!

Just did this!! Lol!

Me too lol

Yeah, when I learned she was from Netherlands I was surprised.. she seemed such a natural Scot to me

Also a Dutchie, and god, I love how Lotte Verbeek nailed the Scottish accent while playing Geillis Duncan!

But if you're not Scottish, you're not really qualified to assess the accuracy of a fake Scottish accent are you? Not any more than I am, as a Scottish person, to assess the accuracy of a fake Dutch accent. That aside, prior to the internet-driven mass Americanisation of the Dutch accent, the natural historically spoken Dutch language & the Scottish traditional language, Auld Scots, have many similarities; in pronunciation, in meaning & the further North towards the Highlands you go, also in speech pattern. If anyone was going to get a Highland accent right, it would be a Scottish or Dutch actor; I've heard some atrocious fake Scots accents on tv & I do have to tell myself to relax & ignore some single syllable shortcomings in Outlander because the majority did do a great job. I also can't fairly criticise Lotte's accent when Sam Heughan's accent is so far from perfect lol.

Joanne Carroll I have Scottish family, so, I actually am qualified to assess the accuracy of the Scottish accent.

Maybe not Scottish but certainly not deaf either. To be fair, this actress did well in my opinion

Elsa Ramos amazing Elsa really glad you're enjoying it :)

Elsa Ramos should read the books if you haven't already there's only so much the show can cover after all !

I do that too. My Scottish friends make fun of my poor attempts lol

Sometimes I want to say aih

Aye, I too have tried to pick it up as well 😂

I can’t do the rs. :(

Why on earth do people do that? It's so insulting.

The language of outlander is scottish gaelic,but cathriona balfe who plays claire was brought up in co. monaghan republic of ireland went to a gaeilscoil which is an irish gaelic language school and is fluent.Scottish and irish gaelic are different languages,but there is a high degree of mutual intelligibility.So she is in fact the only cast member that would come close to a native speaker of scots gaelic.

irishlongsword boland not necessarily im learning both and there is some similarities which when you consider they are both members of the goidelic group of Celtic languages but the accents of the letters are different and the intonation is very different are two of the differences but Scotland has bilingual signs same as Ireland does and also gaeltachts but another difference is Irish kids learn Gaelic from around 4/5 till 18 whereas gaidhlig is more a choice of learning it or not also rte promotes gaelige in its programming whereas unless you're in a Gaeltacht you are unlikely to hear it spoken . Caitriona would find it easy to pick up on the Gaelic but she doesn't use it in the show only people that do are Garry as Colum , Graham as Dougal and sam as Jamie the rest of the highlanders apart but cait doesn't need to as Claire is a Englishwoman so she doesn't need it !

Never said she needed it .Cathriona balfe went to n irish medium school so she did most of her education through irish not just as a school subject and is fluent.

Very very few people speak Gaelic today and even at the time of Outlander, it was only one of the Scottish languages, Scots was more common what most of the characters in Outlander speak basically Scottish-English with occasional emphasis on Scots words, though generally they don't use the majority of basic Scots words that are different from English. So they only typically use Scots for a small amount of the dialogue and English for the rest.

I have little Scottish blood, but my name is the Gaelic word for church. I think I remember it being used in the series.

Hey, Iona! I was wondering which ones sounded Welsh? I'm quite curious!

Omg! It's sooooo cool. I can't imagine how proud you are!

Ahahhaahhahaahahahah same!

I wonder how that was supposed to have happened, given that I don’t recall seeing a school on any episode of Outlander.

@@SeasonsChange14 in the books it explains that he was sent to France by his father to attend the university there when he was a teenager.

Mimi XXL if you wanted to know about the Stuart's holyrood isn't the place as that was built by queen Victoria you need to go to Linlithgow where Mary Stuart was born culloden would be good for that too

Michelle Flood Mary's secretary, David Rizzio, was murdered at Holyrood and tou can visit the rooms etc. There is some history previous to 1603, but not much. It was a royal residence 4 centuries before Victoria got there.

Mimi XXL sorry you're right it was her however who had it renovated and gave it the look it has now !

The young clan? Me too

@@towacca3548 Ya my grandmother on my dad side's maiden name was Young and her ancestors were part of the clan.

@@natepollen1002 I was kinda adopted in when I found them threw Facebook, still working on digging up family history.

There are a lot if you want a comprehensive list, it varies by city even based on class.

good idea

It's on the up, SAOR alba gu bràth.

The decline of the language was due mainly to Royal interference in the 1600s (King James VI & I demanding that Gaelic lairds send their eldest child to Lowland schools to learn English (not Scots ! ) in the 1609 Iona Statutes. That was followed by the repression of Gaelic culture after Culloden, then the Highland Clearances when Gaelic speakers were either forced into emigration or were provided financial incentives to emigrate. A later blow was the 1872 Education (Scotland) Act passed in Westminster - far away from Scotland - which imposed compulsory state primary education but in English only. It took more than 100 years of campaigning before the Gaelic language societies achieved the right in the 1980s to set up Gaelic-medium schools. Since 2005, there has been a Gaelic Language Act passed by the Scottish Parliament, and efforts are being made to promote the language through Scotland. When Duolingo launched its Scottish Gaelic course in late Nov 2019, the uptake was huge. In March 2022, the course had already passed the 1.2 million learners mark. According to Duolingo's statistics, somewhere between 25% and 30% of those learners worldwide are in the UK. So about 400,000 to date, and most of those will have been in Scotland. In 2011, the census for Scotland recorded about 80,000 people who said they had some knowledge of Gaelic. We'll have to wait until 2023 for the results of the 2022 census, but it's a safe bet that the numbers will have gone up. The 2021 attitudes survey in Scotland showed that the younger generation in Scotland are more in favour of promoting Gaelic than the older. That said, I'm 66 and am learning Gaelic as an emigrant, while my brother, 69, who stayed in Scitland, is learning it there. We both started without the other knowing.

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Kenneth Branagh? Do you know how short and tiny he is? Omg, he could never be Jamie! Sam is perfect, not just his physical body, but his voice, hands, the way he uses everything he has. He IS Jamie. Especially if you read the books, how you came up with Branagh, I’ll never know.

PS3GamingScotland thanks, really glad to hear it 😊

PurrimaDonna why doesn't that surprise me !

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Andrew Bradyaas9 that is interesting in a weird way someone told me my Australian accent ( I'm from Sydney ) sounded a little bit Irish which baffled me but it is 90% of my ancestry alongside some Ulster Scots , German and don't hold this against me but some English thanks to mums paternal grandmothers family who are from Sussex but my great grandad did retain his accent and I guess because I am around a few Irish people and mum talks to my relatives in Ireland on a regular basis it influences it !

Andrew Bradyaas9 , point well taken about the south,the accent blends from Celtic ancestors. Also, I’ve observed some increased of use of words that although familiar, they are not as frequently used in other parts of USA. Some words are frequently employed in typical vocabulary, in the south and in Scotland from the studying I’ve managed. I’d like to think that as we humans migrate, or move around, our accents shift in a rapport with our communication interactions among the locals of an area. It would seem so.

If you listen to Caitreona Bailiff in interviews speaking in her everyday accent, she sounds more like a New Yorker than an Irish lass. I've never understood why British people can do such spot on American accents while Americans trying to speak in a British accent usually sound really corny. i.e. Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins. He attempts a cockney accent that would make Rubeus Hagrid's pet spider cringe. Notable exception, you would never know Peter Dinklage is from New Jersey in Game of thrones because Lord Tyrion is so well spoken.

I would disagree, Peter Dinklage sounds like an american trying to layer over it with a posh British accent. His pitch and tones are wrong and his R sounds are characteristically american. Caitriona Balfe has been living in the USA for 15 years therefore can't be expected to speak with a strong accent in interviews.

I feel your pain. My dad's family are all from southern Tennessee but back in the 1960's one of my great-uncles went back to live in Inverness and lived there until 1990 when he moved back to America and died two years later. My grandfather and Granny all have their history traced back to Scotland and mostly from Inverness and a few cousins here and there in the Hebrides and Glasgow. The last time I went back to Scotland and England I at first spoke with a Southern accent which meh, the English really were not friendly at all as a result, and then they got even worse when I relented back to the Inverness/Highlander accent that I had become so accustomed to as a child being around my great uncle and cousins. I have my Southeastern/American accent and I can go from that accent to a Scottish accent pretty quickly and often interchangeably.

Ditto Lordracula -- Peter Dinklage's British accent is horrendous. John Malkovich's British accent is similarly bad, almost as if they had the same [bad] dialect coach.

Joanna, yes i can. My mum is from Newcastle upon Tyne, my grandmum was from Aberdeen, my Poppop was from Cork. We all lived in western MA. 🙂