American Orders Whiskey in Ancient Scots Dialect, Bar Goes Crazy

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The Scottish accent can be notoriously hard for other English speakers to understand, but what if that’s because it’s not actually English at all? Though closely related to English, Scots is recognized by the government of Scotland as a separate language with its own rich literary history, and though most Scottish people speak English in daily life these days, dialects of Scots are still spoken particularly in historically isolated regions like the northeast. So I went around the countryside learning and speaking the ancient and increasingly rare dialect known as Doric, heavily influenced by the Vikings and their Old Norse language, and it was unlike anything I’d ever heard.

0:00 Introduction
0:48 The townsfolk here only speak English?
1:40 Trying to order fish and chips in Scots
4:23 Hearing a Doric song for the first time
5:33 Meeting locals in picturesque fishing town
7:02 Fisherman has lived here his whole life
7:56 "They think I'm German when I travel"
9:00 He's the only year-round fisherman left
10:19 This area is so isolated
10:43 Meeting Scottish highland cows
11:51 Friendly conversation at the local pub
13:39 Scottish grandpa wants me to watch him dance
16:55 Trying local whiskey and buying a round for some new friends
18:44 Trying fish and chips in the largest fishing port in Europe
19:45 I was invited into a home to try some homemade Scottish candy

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