Karen Gillan is surprised by how Scottish her daughter sounds when she hasn’t even been in Scotland
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Karen Gillan is surprised by how Scottish her daughter sounds when she hasn’t even been in Scotland
Posted by mcfw31
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Our family friends when I was a kid were British but had lived in Canada for the past 5 years, their youngest kid was born in Canada and had never lived in the UK but had a British accent due to her parents/siblings having the accent. It was so cute!
Bless! Very common for kids to have their parents accents until they start school.
This is supremely adorable
Both my parents are British, We had a British boarder, and my British grandmother would stay with us for 8 weeks every other summer growing up. As a kid in Ontario Canada every other year I had a British accent when I started school, And every time I travelled there I would get an accent within days, until my kids, I guess I didn’t speak with adults as much once I had my kids, because when in the UK I stopped picking up the accent right away.
Not trying to be a party pooper, this is genuine curiosity. Why is she surprised that her baby sounds Scottish when she’s Scottish?
The child sounds a few years old and has probably spent 98% of their life around their mom, so a Scottish accent seems pretty expected?
I love the accent even more coming from a little one. I don’t know much about kids or dialect, but if the child is interacting with and hearing the parent who has an accent, isn’t it normal for them to mimic their speaking style?
It’s actually not that surprising. Young children are incredibly good at picking up the sounds of language before they really understand the words themselves. Their brains are wired to hear and mimic tiny differences in pronunciation, so if they’re surrounded by a Scottish accent, they’ll naturally start speaking with one too. That’s why kids can often sound just like the people around them, even at a very young age. Also why it’s great to have children learn hard tonal languages early on.
If the kid was speaking with a Scottish accent and both parents have an American accent – I’d start investigating if the father/mother have a Scottish “secretary” hanging around 😅
One of my top favorite accents.
I grew up in America with a Scottish mother and American father and had a Scottish accent until kindergarten! It’s trippy seeing old videos of baby me.
Should have had her say purple burglar alarm
kids learn from their parents and other influential people.
my daughter is two generations removed from her dominant culture and has never been there. the only person who definitely sounds like he’s from there is her grandpa who she barely ever sees… but yet she has a handful of words that sound like a person born and raised there.
it’s adorable and also fascinating
Now say “purple burglar”!
Absolutely adorable. And I’m sure her daughter is too
How did I not know Karen Gillan has a Scottish accent 💀
No clue where she got it from lol
I still have my accent, I’ve been here almost 50 years. I can turn it off and on.
Can she say purple burglar alarm?
So adorable.
Story time!
Military family, my sisters spent their first years in England and moved to the US when they were 6 & 8 years old. Our dad is Puerto Rican, mom is from Indiana.
They come to the States with a full on British accent and speaking fluent Spanish! I come along later and adopted a tinge of a British cadence and saying certain words in a British way.
They carry American accents now but after a few glasses of wine, they’ll drop into their old accents and it’s hilarious to listen to!
Ok precious
But can she say burglar alarm?
That child does sound Scottish.
I think your parents accents affect your accent a fair amount.
I knew a little girl who would have a New Zealand accent with her mum and English accent with her dad. It was interchangeable until she started school.
Yeah, because she is most in contact with her parent, who is scottish and speaks with that accent.
Can we expected a visit from the Doctor?
She’s got no chance of understanding her after three beers
This is hilarious because Danielle Radcliffe laughs about his kid’s American accent
Bahaha that is super cute. I love Scottish accents so much.
That baby has great pronunciation considering she was only born last year
Maybe The Doctor took the kid to Scotland for a bit
Have her say Purple Burglar Alarm.
Guys the point of the video wasn’t that her daughter has a Scottish accent it’s how thick of an accent is! Karen grew up in Scotland and her daughter who’s grown up in American sounds like a 80 year old granny who’s lived in Scotland everyday lol
Thank you for not putting your child on camera!!!
It’s not so much the baby “has an accent” or anything to do with “language”. She’s just making the sound that mom is asking her to make. Simple mimicking. Now if the baby understands what these sounds mean, or someone with an american accent asks the baby to say the word and the baby does it in a scottish accent, that’s a different story.
I’m daun for this. Really wholesome that she doesn’t show her baby for the whole world to see, but focuses the camera on herself. Babies can’t consent to being celebrities.
Starting a petition to make all babies Scottish, henceforth; this is delightful.
Can you say “Wrong way down a one way street”