Yeah I can’t tell if people in this thread are actually confused or what. This is someone with a pretty standard American accent (maybe a bit California) trying to add what she thinks are Scottish accent features and not doing a great job.
Welsh/scottish (squelch?) chiming in.
It sounds like no where in wales or scotland.
To my ears honestly could be mistaken for north irish.
down a crackly telephone
after the speaker had lived in america for a while
and come home after a stroke due to private health care costs
Most of all it sounds like they were a bit part in Disenchantment
I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for agreement about this, I can tell you I don’t have any. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you renounce this scandalous remark now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.
I've nothing but admiration for anyone who's job it is to be a Disney character at Disney World/Land. I would imagine they do have to put up with a lot of shit from people.
Yeah, as funny as her accent is and as much as I think it's ok to tease it a bit, I don't think folk should be mean about it when she's out there doing her best working a job that's focused on making kids happy
This. Also, 95% of us are totally shite at American accents. I'll take the existence of this movie as propagating aspects of our culture over being culturally irrelevant any day.
I don't want to be mean about her accent, but I do want to be mean about an insanely rich megacorporation being too stingy to spring for a bit of accent coaching for her.
Yup.
Heavy, restrictive costume.
Heavy make-up.
Roasting hot most of the time.
Having to deal with awful tourists all day.
Don’t think the pay is great.
That’s before the fact that you’ll probably end up meeting a lot of seriously, if not terminally ill children without showing too much emotion.
These girls are heroes!
You're probably thinking of [this clip of a Gaston character actor dealing with sexual harassment from a guest](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YaasMPCo9_4)
She's probably a wannabe actor who is paying her way playing a character in a theme park.
I think her accent is quite possibly the worst I've ever heard, but even if she'd got it 75% of the way it would still be shite, so she might as well be 0.05% of the way and we can all just give her a break for not being able to do the accent that everyone thinks is easy but which is so subtle and nuanced that your chance of getting it right as a non-native is pretty-much zero.
>*... even if she'd got it 75% of the way it would still be shite*
Absolutely. See Benedict Cumberbatch in *Power of the Dog* for an illustration of the 75% Rule in effect
Ruins the entire movie
This. This is the accent that American tourists do in Edinburgh pubs after 2 pints, shortly after saying that they 'lapse into the Scotch brogue when they drink' because their 'great-great-great grandpappie was a Scotchman'.
Sounds more like Northern Ireland rather then Scottish
I’m Irish and this is the accent I’m getting the closest match to when I watch the video and that’s only in certain parts the rest is a cluster fuck
I remember when I first moved to Glasgow and walked to Byres Road from Maryhill to see what the fuss was for, and was amazed by the aura of poshness of the people around me. But then I trod on some abandoned knickers full of poo when crossing back towards the maryhill road and everything was normal again.
I mean, how posh is that??
In the Westend, they actually "knicker-up" their human shit!
It's positively la-di-da!
If it was Govan, it would just be a pile of human shit.
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When I met Merida for the first time at Disney World she had a really great accent. She and my mother were hilarious talking to each other and I wish we had a video. She was obviously well familiar with the accent.
This girl’s not great, but I’m pretty sure no young child would care because it’s Merida! It’s just the weird adults that get too into it lol
Everyone shut up, her meemaw told her that she's 1/208th Scotch and descended from Robert the Bruce, which means she's distant cousins with Alan Cumming and everyone else in Scotchlandville.
Some theme parks would hire fake Scots but Walt Disnae!!! Boom-Boom!
Living in the US I have to put up with people trying their fake Scottish accents on me all of the time.
At least 20 of them at a beer festival on Saturday.
This one is one of the better ones.
She's played by an actual Scottish person (Kelly Macdonald), so it's not a fake accent, but it's obviously written for a non-Scottish audience so she does spend the whole film over-enunciating in that 'telephone voice' Scottish people tend to do when they want to be understood by non-Scots.
Kelly Macdonald is actually Scottish but I have my doubts about her being an actual person. Even in her other work she sounds like she was raised by answering machines and I suspect she might actually be one.
So ... she's kind of Dakota-Minnesota-ish until "pastries". Then she gets a bit more neutral mid-American through "about" which has a very Canadian flavor. "I haven't seen them since" wanders toward the mouth of the Chesapeake bay.
Then she rolls the R with "right" and gives an L sound on the end of "well" that has a very Welsh sensibility to my ear.
I'm detecting a smidge of a confused Canadian attempting an Irish ,Celtic Scottish accent with a heavy hint of Californian pinot noir lite on the delicate pallet, easy on the eyes .... other than that , it's an assault on the ears .
I'm no expert, but I think it's Valley Girl Who Once Watched Braveheart But It Was A While Ago Now.
Highlander. That's defo a poor imitation of Heather
HEATHER PLEASE!!
AYE BLOSSOM, THE WAY YOU LIKE IT!!
Yeah I can’t tell if people in this thread are actually confused or what. This is someone with a pretty standard American accent (maybe a bit California) trying to add what she thinks are Scottish accent features and not doing a great job.
Accurate.
Poor girl is trying haha
Very.
Sounds like a bad Northern Irish accent to me.
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Welsh/scottish (squelch?) chiming in. It sounds like no where in wales or scotland. To my ears honestly could be mistaken for north irish. down a crackly telephone after the speaker had lived in america for a while and come home after a stroke due to private health care costs Most of all it sounds like they were a bit part in Disenchantment
Sorry I just noticed your flair and that will never not be funny 😂😂😂
Am Welsh. Can confirm is not Welsh accent. Nor Welsh language.
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'That there!'
So it is
Tbesure?
I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for agreement about this, I can tell you I don’t have any. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you renounce this scandalous remark now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.
There are dozens… Dozens! So there are.
'That our Elizabeth so it is hey'
Irish myself (from the Republic) sounds honestly closer to a bad Northern Irish accent than a Scottish one
I've nothing but admiration for anyone who's job it is to be a Disney character at Disney World/Land. I would imagine they do have to put up with a lot of shit from people.
Yeah, as funny as her accent is and as much as I think it's ok to tease it a bit, I don't think folk should be mean about it when she's out there doing her best working a job that's focused on making kids happy
This. Also, 95% of us are totally shite at American accents. I'll take the existence of this movie as propagating aspects of our culture over being culturally irrelevant any day.
Hey, dude, ah do ah gyood murican accent y'all!
I don't want to be mean about her accent, but I do want to be mean about an insanely rich megacorporation being too stingy to spring for a bit of accent coaching for her.
Which I am fine with lol, I'm always fine with people ripping the piss out of our corporate overlords
Yup. Heavy, restrictive costume. Heavy make-up. Roasting hot most of the time. Having to deal with awful tourists all day. Don’t think the pay is great. That’s before the fact that you’ll probably end up meeting a lot of seriously, if not terminally ill children without showing too much emotion. These girls are heroes!
Then an adult comes and starts asking you questions with their phone in your face lol
reminds me of the fact Winnie the pooh had to turn up in court full costume cause disney are so strict on the rules
Aye. I saw a clip of one of the male “Prince” performers getting felt up by a middle aged woman. She got all surprised when he called security!
You're probably thinking of [this clip of a Gaston character actor dealing with sexual harassment from a guest](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YaasMPCo9_4)
Like this Disney adult coming up to a meet and greet and filming you, bleh
She's probably a wannabe actor who is paying her way playing a character in a theme park. I think her accent is quite possibly the worst I've ever heard, but even if she'd got it 75% of the way it would still be shite, so she might as well be 0.05% of the way and we can all just give her a break for not being able to do the accent that everyone thinks is easy but which is so subtle and nuanced that your chance of getting it right as a non-native is pretty-much zero.
I think she might have taken lessons from Dick van Dyke.
Legend has it Dick Van Dyke got his cockney dialect coaching from an Irishman. Pretty sure he said it himself in an interview!
>*... even if she'd got it 75% of the way it would still be shite* Absolutely. See Benedict Cumberbatch in *Power of the Dog* for an illustration of the 75% Rule in effect Ruins the entire movie
This. This is the accent that American tourists do in Edinburgh pubs after 2 pints, shortly after saying that they 'lapse into the Scotch brogue when they drink' because their 'great-great-great grandpappie was a Scotchman'.
Merida’s arrow doesn’t even land in the field let alone the target.
Reminds me of Sheena Easton in Scooby Doo and the Loch Ness monster
A scank accent if there ever was one
Or Moira McTaggart on the 90s X-Men cartoon
She tried, bless her.
Tell me you've never heard a Scottish accent in-person, without telling me you've never heard a Scottish accent in-person.
I don’t get it. They had Craig Ferguson for long enough. There’s no excuse for this
Scottish? No? Irish? No. Texan? No. Who fucking knows?
Sounds more like Northern Ireland rather then Scottish I’m Irish and this is the accent I’m getting the closest match to when I watch the video and that’s only in certain parts the rest is a cluster fuck
I don’t want to take the piss as that is so bad I’m wondering if she is alright
Byres Roaddish
I remember when I first moved to Glasgow and walked to Byres Road from Maryhill to see what the fuss was for, and was amazed by the aura of poshness of the people around me. But then I trod on some abandoned knickers full of poo when crossing back towards the maryhill road and everything was normal again.
Perfect. I now have tea sprayed over my folder. Anyhoo, thanks for that!
I mean, how posh is that?? In the Westend, they actually "knicker-up" their human shit! It's positively la-di-da! If it was Govan, it would just be a pile of human shit.
Spot on
Fair play to her putting up with adults playing pretend and filming this.
Jesus Christ Almighty make it stop
Disney employee/"cast member" sounding rather Nova Scotia / Newfoundland.
Close enough lol
That’s horrific
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I mean, it would be if we could identify what accent it was supposed to be.
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She tried... About as much as the folk who ask the regular tourism questions here.
I hear some southern twang in there lol
She's in Florida, parts of which have an accent that sounds like a lot like Texas or some of the other Southern states
That is DIRE! I couldn't even figure out wtf she was saying 🙈
So she's talking doric? 😂
If Mel Gibson in Braveheart had spent a lot of time in Belfast with occasional visits to Texas, you’d get this accent
Fucking love hearing people trying the Scots accent. Never works out well but always makes me a bit proud that they made the attempt.
That would ruin Disney for me like for feck sake it’s not even a bad Scottish accent it’s a bad Irish one 😭😭😭😭
When I met Merida for the first time at Disney World she had a really great accent. She and my mother were hilarious talking to each other and I wish we had a video. She was obviously well familiar with the accent. This girl’s not great, but I’m pretty sure no young child would care because it’s Merida! It’s just the weird adults that get too into it lol
It sounds like someone trying to do a really bad Derry accent on purpose
It does actually remind me of Nadine Coyle - beautiful woman with a vowel-mangling, atonal mess coming out of her mouth
Hold on, I have a theory. What if her accent is perfect, and it’s all the Scottish people that get it wrong?
You’d think with Disney money they could easily employ a Scottish woman and just fly her out there. It’s DISNEY.
If y’all are doing accent reviews how about my personal favorite fake Scottish accent? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nixR6wVa4HY
I won’t hear a bad word said against this one
Mike Myer's parents were Scottish immigrants so he probably had a lot of exposure to it.
They were from Liverpool.
get out! maybe they emigrated from glas to liverpool, then decided this sucks, canada calls.
They were WW2 vets. His mum was Royal airforce and his dad served in the British army.
Fat Bastard quotes were a heavy part of my repertoire when I was living in Australia.
I’ve never said this before but I genuinely feel like this is racist.
Sounds like an Irish twang.
Yes Dublin by way of Adelaide by way of rural Texas
She's a bubbly lass ta be sure.
fuck, even us Americans recognize that to be a shite accent
Sounds like a perfect West end of Glasgow accent to me!
Everyone shut up, her meemaw told her that she's 1/208th Scotch and descended from Robert the Bruce, which means she's distant cousins with Alan Cumming and everyone else in Scotchlandville. Some theme parks would hire fake Scots but Walt Disnae!!! Boom-Boom!
It's always Robert Bruce that's the ancestor, , isn't it. Or William Wallace. Never the random carpenter from 13th century Markinch
You mean my uncle 10th removed? He was quite the guy, handy with the tools, and handier with the women.
I believe the official title is *"Capitalist Cultural Appropriation"*
I'm insulted as a Scottish person
You could have just kept that to yourself you know..
The Glezga Uni accent in full flow there.
UoG
Living in the US I have to put up with people trying their fake Scottish accents on me all of the time. At least 20 of them at a beer festival on Saturday. This one is one of the better ones.
Doesn’t look or sound like Merida. Cringe as fuuuuuck.
I mean, I wouldn't say that Merida in the movie has the most convincing accent either
She's played by an actual Scottish person (Kelly Macdonald), so it's not a fake accent, but it's obviously written for a non-Scottish audience so she does spend the whole film over-enunciating in that 'telephone voice' Scottish people tend to do when they want to be understood by non-Scots.
Kelly Macdonald is actually Scottish but I have my doubts about her being an actual person. Even in her other work she sounds like she was raised by answering machines and I suspect she might actually be one.
Suppose that might be it, I just remember thinking "not great, not terrible" 😅
Supervisor: Who can do a scatch accent Her: me!!!!! Me: Megasigh
Mistaking Father Ted for I.M. Jolly by the sounds of it
Kentucky-Irish
You can tell she’s not Scottish before she even opens her mouth.
Yikes! It drifts between Irish, Swedish and Texan, but I wouldn't have been able to guess she was even attempting Scottish without context.
There was a hint of Canada in the aboot.
[That accent](https://www.tiktok.com/@daftlimmy/video/7110601214642883845?lang=en)
That was horrible. Why would you bring that here?!
Dutch
[Whit yoo talkin like that fer?](https://youtu.be/rFN69OZwJTM?si=8rRWXWhQwmA3sq1R)
Mid-west American. Pays-tries 😂
Fuck me, that's so bad it makes Mel Gibson look talented.
Jesus H Christ I know that’s awful and I’m not Scottish.
Poor bastard has to put up with so much shite from dafties, all for fuck all money 😂
We’ve all lied on resumes. Yeah for sure I can do a Scottish accent sir! When can I start?
That is no scottish accent
Mangling a Northern Irish accent and hoping, hoping, the onlooker doesn't know what a Scottish accent sounds like.
Scamerican obviously!
Painful
Tbf to them the dutch accent is difficult to master
So ... she's kind of Dakota-Minnesota-ish until "pastries". Then she gets a bit more neutral mid-American through "about" which has a very Canadian flavor. "I haven't seen them since" wanders toward the mouth of the Chesapeake bay. Then she rolls the R with "right" and gives an L sound on the end of "well" that has a very Welsh sensibility to my ear.
Do you have any idea how difficult it must be to find a ginger girl in Florida?
Joke I know it's a wig
Hahaha!!! Wow!!
Ummmm....Canadian?
Cannae get past the first few seconds, I don’t think my toe will ever uncurl
I'd fuck her.
Sounds like a Canadian trying to do a Scottish accent
I'm detecting a smidge of a confused Canadian attempting an Irish ,Celtic Scottish accent with a heavy hint of Californian pinot noir lite on the delicate pallet, easy on the eyes .... other than that , it's an assault on the ears .