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Everything You Need To Know About Scotland #307

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Can You Understand Scottish People?

"There were plenty of times where I literally didn't understand what they were saying," he says. "In America, you think that you're the whole world and then I never said that." Scottish people do this strange thing: Instead of saying to him, like, I said to him, they will say, 'I says to him', which is wrong on so many levels. It's not the past. You're using the third person for the first person' He also finds Scots use the word we a lot - meaning Oh, yeah.

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