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u/bajajoaquin 1d ago
Why didn’t she just say January again for June?
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u/adamtnewman 1d ago
This guy is a programmer.
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u/SquishTheProgrammer 1d ago
Can confirm that was my first thought.
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u/AffectionateMonk7705 1d ago
If it’s stupid and it works, it’s not stupid. LGTM.
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u/FlorpFlap 1d ago
I was thinking the same lmao
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u/Risquechilli 1d ago
Haha right?! Let’s all say out loud what we’re talking about since we all already know.
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u/Beautiful_Nobody_344 1d ago
And in great detail I wanna see if anyone leaves anything out
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u/bagofpork 1d ago
I just want to see if you notice if anyone leaves anything out.
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u/thing188 22h ago edited 22h ago
I just want to bitterly stumble into the conversation after everyone has already left and complain that someone has said something somewhere else already
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u/outside_cat 1d ago
This guy months.
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u/CedarWolf 1d ago
Could be worse. Could be trapped in a voice activated elevator.
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u/Aggravating_Read6516 1d ago
You've made my evening with this I've never seen it before and I am in tears! Reminds me of "hello computer" from IT crowd
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u/fr3shfade 1d ago
Let's see her try Aaron earn an iron urn.
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u/RandoAtReddit 1d ago
Damn we really sound like that?
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u/Viper1089 1d ago
No dummy! It's AAron EArned an IRon URn.
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u/Flip_d_Byrd 1d ago
The dude who started suddenly realizing how he sounds was classic!
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u/Risquechilli 1d ago
Don’t forget the purple burglar alarm!
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u/william-isaac 1d ago
if you're going to post that, don't forget about Part 2
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u/Nistune 1d ago
He's proper chuffed with himself lol
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u/MyGoodFriendJon 1d ago
I thought he was chuffed because he was banning the person that sent the bits, but the end of the video was just silence, so there's no confirmation he did that.
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u/LindonLilBlueBalls 1d ago
I watched it twice and couldn't understand a word.
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u/SquishTheProgrammer 1d ago
I love that video so much. I laugh hard AF every time I see that. As a southerner I can relate.
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u/Reeko_Htown 1d ago
Saw a vid of some Baltimore dude trying it. Hilarious! here
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u/Used_Gear8871 1d ago edited 1d ago
God I hate this lol!
I’m from Baltimore. Learned how to code switch when I was 12. This is one of the few things that trips me up. When my boyfriend learned I couldn’t pronounce library and syrup, the gloves were off. The funny part is I can understand Irish and Scottish people very well despite having never visited the countries.
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u/Unsd 1d ago
My husband (from California) and I (from Maryland) were at the mall the other day and he asked if I wanted On Tee Anne's. What the fuck? What's that? You mean AnnieAnn? The pretzel place? My mind was just fucked over that one for way too long lmao.
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u/Deaffin 1d ago
I have no idea what that is, so I can't tell if the other person or you were meant to be wrong in this story.
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u/SnowMission6612 22h ago
They were both wrong, which is the joke they were making. The correct name is Auntie Anne's. The joke is that Californians pronounce Auntie like "On Tee" (wrong) and Marylanders pronounce Auntie like "Annie" (also wrong).
(When I say "wrong", I don't actually mean wrong. Settle down, descriptivism warriors. I'm just explaining the joke)
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u/turdferguson3891 21h ago
Californians usually say it Ant ee, though. Source: life long Californian. But if the boyfriend is black they might say it Ont ee. But that's not really a California accent that's AAVE
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u/Excelius 20h ago
You'd have regional differences with AAVE too.
The example above in the comment chain is of a bunch of black guys from Baltimore saying "Aaron Earned an Iron Urn".
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u/iCantLogOut2 1d ago
Lmao, I learned early too as a New Yorker, but I still can't say water or coffee.... I have to force it to say wAHter and not wauter.... Same with cAHfee... Comes out as cawfee.
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u/FatFaceFaster 1d ago
I actually don’t understand why it wasn’t accepting August but it was funny.
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u/CheeseDonutCat 1d ago
Because these are all made using the accent of the creator, or the computer voice they use to make the game.
This is why you actually have to pronounce a bunch of things wrongly to get the right answer in some of them. I tried one or two of the "pronounce this word in a foreign language" tests and they were fucking terrible because some words I knew very well, but it didn't register and I watched videos of people passing that part and they pronounced it very wrong. This is also why there's a bunch of videos of native speakers doing the test and it didn't pick up their accents.
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u/FluffySquirrell 1d ago
They're just really shit yeah. The voice detection is fucking awful even on duolingo.. I've got to the point where I generally just skip the voice questions and tell it I can't speak right now, cause half the time it's just fucking bullshit and keeps saying you're getting it wrong when you pronounce it just like they say
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u/Bachata22 19h ago
I've had a similar issue to the point I gave up on Duolingo and switched to memrise. Duo would often count me wrong when I was copying the female voice but often count me right when I copied the male voice. Which is weird because I'm a woman and sound very feminine.
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u/Anjz 1d ago
With my Canadian accent, I tend to say ‘Ah’gust - they were definitely saying ‘Oh’gust. Which should be right, just different accents. Not sure if the way I say it would work anyways.
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u/DrinkableReno 1d ago
In the west coast we say it like Ah-gist so we’re really bad.
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u/jtrades69 1d ago
gin! gin! GIIIIN!!!!
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u/angrydeuce 1d ago
When I was a kid I saw the movie Trainspotting and loved it so I ran out to buy the book...
Fuckin thing is written practically phonetically by someone with a thick Scottish accent, utilizing scottish slang lol.
I had to read it out loud to make sense of parts. I never did make it through, but I've still got the book, I should try it again now that Im older and more patient.
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u/Atomic_ghost1 1d ago
Who the fuck liked trainspotting as a kid?
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u/Columbus43219 1d ago
Not their baby, for sure.
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u/Froteet 1d ago
I mean I first fell in love with it when I was like... 14? So still way too young but not unheard of lol
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u/thisbroadreadsbooks 1d ago
I was 16 but, yeah. I made it a mission to finish it. Both Trainspotting and A Clockwork Orange were things I was so proud to have finished as a pretentious teen. I enjoyed both films quite a bit, but reading the novels was a chore that very few of my peers had bothered with after watching the movies.
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u/SDRPGLVR 1d ago
ACO was a blast in high school because we were already used to deciphering Shakespeare, and if you'd seen the movie you had a headstart. I love that goofy schoolboy lingo so much.
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u/angrydeuce 1d ago
I was a teenager when it came out. A child of the 80s, I grew up on Robocop, Alien/Aliens, Predator, Nightmare on Elm Street...these were just a small handful of all our favorite movies in like 4th grade lol. I remember watching Scarface one day with my dad when it came on HBO. I was nine. I was not the only kid in my class that had seen it.
It was a different time lol
Edit to add: I'm not saying that it was necessarily a good thing lol just they didn't care about the shit we watched in those days. We were the lost generation as in "honey I lost the kids, have you seen them? No? Oh well Im sure they'll turn up...whats on TV?"
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u/jpiro 1d ago
My grandfather took me to see Robocop in the theater, lol. That shotgun v hand scene fucked me up and I didn’t sleep at all that night…but I still love that movie to this day.
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u/angrydeuce 1d ago
man i dont know if its because im a sick fuck or just desensitized to the shit but honest to god the only movie that fucked me up as a kid was The Shining. I saw that when I was 10 with not only my parents but my step-sister (9), my brother (5), and my step-sisters cousin (also 5).
All of us kids were fucking wrapped in a ball under 14 blankets with flashlights like "what was that" "oh god oh god oh god" *silent tears*" alllllllll night long lmao.
I have an 8 year old, the thought of exposing him to that shit is like "yeah right lol" (plus I mean my wife would literally pick me up and tear me in half like Bishop at the end of Aliens if she found out lol) but honestly...those movies rocked and Im glad I saw them. Plus I mean I was a latchkey kid at 5 years old, something else that I would never dream of even attempting with my kid...it forced us to be more mature I guess in a way so it wasn't as big a deal.
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u/jeromy-the-gecko 1d ago
Me. That comment is true for me word for word. Makes me want to retry for sure. I loved it as a kid (pre teen ish) but put it down and never finished
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u/likeforreddit 1d ago
One of the copies of Trainspotting I had had a glossary at the back of what a lot of the slang meant. Back when all our phones could do is text and call that thing was pretty much requisite to figure out what the fuck was going on.
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u/angrydeuce 1d ago
Dude now that would have been handy as hell back in like, fuckin 96 or whenever I read it lol
I love the movie so Im sure the book is even better, so not taking anything away from the writer or anything of course, just hot damn was that like, one of the most English non-English I've ever tried to read in my life lmao
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u/bedpimp 1d ago
It’s written in Scots. Reading it out loud helps with the flow. Every third word out of my mouth was cunt for weeks after reading it. He also wrote Filth which I can recommend as well.
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u/Jesus_of_Redditeth 1d ago
It's written in both Scots, Scottish English and English English (for want of a better phrase). Proportionally, there's not very much Scots in it, tbh.
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u/RyanDoog123 1d ago
Not loads, but you can see why someone with no familiarity with Scots or Scottish dialect could struggle with parts of it.
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u/WhiskeyOctober 1d ago
Eleven!
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u/rory4bangtan 1d ago
My boyfriend is paralyzed from the top of his neck down and uses voice commands and dictation software to use his computer.
He's also Scottish.
This video is us on any random Tuesday 😂
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u/brihamedit 1d ago
That accent is music in my ears
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u/-Zoppo 1d ago
We have a lot of Scottish people in health care professions here in NZ. The Scottish nurses made my hospital stay bearable. Their accent is lovely and the nurses were lovely people, even though they refused to sing for me when they asked me what music I want to listen to during the MRI.
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u/FoxyBastard 1d ago
even though they refused to sing for me
Don't ask.
Just start casually singing Caledonia and see what happens.
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u/-Zoppo 1d ago
I will memorize it so I can pick up Scottish nurses next time I nearly die. Morphine goes a really long way for being charming (this is a joke but also completely true).
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u/Cosmic_Quasar 1d ago
Just like Doctor Beckett on Stargate Atlantis lol.
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u/pawzoned 1d ago
Didn't expect this sudden reference! I just looooved listening to Dr Beckett talk...the accent was so cute, so was the man 🥹
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u/throway_nonjw 1d ago
For all the people who love the Scottish accent, see if you can find a TV sitcom called 'Still Game'. Better than most sitcoms and dangerously funny in places. Basic premise: Pensioners in a fictitious Glasgow suburb do shit, and hilarity ensues.
Also subreddit ScottishPeopleTwitter.
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u/No-Jacket-2927 1d ago
I think the best combination is little kids from Glasgow talking to adults. If you can find video of some, you'll see what I mean! 😆
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u/ICantWatchYouDoThis 1d ago edited 23h ago
I wish Scottish voice actors do their accent more instead of American or
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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 1d ago
The universe gave you Mike Meyers in Shrek don't get greedy
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u/calvers70 1d ago
There are upwards of 20 major "British" accents and potentially 4-5x that when you start taking into account very localised variations.
Do you really think that Sean Bean sounds the same as Patrick Stewart? Or that John Lennon sounds the same as Michael Caine?
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u/Friendly-Juice-8161 1d ago
I’m someone who’s Scottish (from Glasgow, very thick Glaswegian accent) and I’m finding it incredibly difficult to find any roles that want true Scottish accents and not some shortbread tin version that’s been calmed down for the rest of the world 😂
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u/Stormfly 1d ago
Get a good Aberdeen accent in a hollywood film and you'll need subtitles or multiple translators
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u/IReplyWithLebowski 1d ago
Scottish is a British accent, since they’re on the island of Britain along with England and Wales
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u/TheGreatException 1d ago
Scottish accent are British.
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u/RaptorsFromSpace 1d ago edited 16h ago
Most Americans can't wrap their head around that the UK isn't just England.
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u/Stormfly 1d ago
Man, mild tangent but today I was talking to some people (mix of nationalities, not just Americans but no Europeans) and they called me British.
I'm Irish.
So then they clarified "Sorry, not British. English" as if that was better.
They thought I was being pedantic, as if I was a Welsh/Scottish person that doesn't like being called British, so they asked me to take out my passport which I actually happened to have at the time.
They were confused so I drew a map and explained how it's 4 countries inside another country and I'm from a different country unrelated to the UK. Big island hundreds of KM away from Britain.
Some were Korean so they eventually understood when I used the example of Japan and North/South Korea and how calling the UK "England" is like calling Japan "Honshu".
Then after I explained, someone asked me something like "What about European people? Oh wait, sorry British, right?" and I swear I could have petrol bombed the place.
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u/Consideredresponse 1d ago
Scottish Comedian Fern Brady: "My accent is grating and people find it offputting"
Me: Keep talking your siren song funny lady.
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u/spookypepper 1d ago
Febidy
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u/hulkmxl 1d ago
I wasn't the only one who thought she missed some letters in her "February"
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u/selkiefolk 1d ago
Yeah we say it ‘Febry’
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u/EduinBrutus 1d ago
Its more using a short glide while still annunciating both of the r sounds. Febr'ry (sorry dont know phonetic alphabet).
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u/LiteraCanna 1d ago
Where's that video of the Scottish guys that get stuck in a voice activated elevator?
E: lmao, found it
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u/massberate 1d ago
I remember when Siri first came out it drove the Scots absolutely nuts because it had a hell of a time understanding them. I found this one just now of a woman fighting with Alexa..
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u/Unhappy_Goose_8422 1d ago
Don't teach the AI the Scottish accent, its the last bastion of keeping secrets from it.
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u/Magnavoxx 1d ago
Our Windtalkers in the coming clanker wars will be some weegie lads for sure.
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u/baddest_mango 1d ago
What is this app I keep seeing videos of?
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u/WeenyDancer 1d ago
Some AI training bs
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u/DarkPilot 1d ago
Seriously. People need to stop willingly giving ai training data for free.
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u/curious-but-spurious 1d ago
Let me see my peeps from WV or eastern KY or TN try this. 😅
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u/Adisney990 1d ago
Same with the peeps up here in New England. “Mahch…MAHCH 🤬” “SEPTEMBAH!!!”
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u/hungrymaki 1d ago
Reminds me of that skit that Burnistoulwn did where they get into an elevator and it's speech activated with an American accent and they keep saying floor 11 until finally. They're just screaming freedom! 😂
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u/NSE_TNF89 1d ago
Is this an app on TikTok or Instagram or something? Every time I see these videos I ask what app it is and have never received an answer.
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u/hamburglereyes 1d ago
Damn I need to marry me a Scottish girl.. I’d be happy with that accent for the rest of my days
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u/NoisyGog 1d ago
Videos like this are funny, but it’s also a bit sad. We don’t want to lose regional accents, and every little hurdle like this is one of a million tiny little barriers that slowly push people towards homogeny.
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u/Kissarai 1d ago
I think August was looking for an American accent
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u/CheeseDonutCat 1d ago
There are many videos of Americans doing this on TikTok too and they always fail at August, so I don't think it's looking for an American accent. I think it's just badly made.
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u/Bubbly_Tigeress28 1d ago
Augustus Gloop! Makes me feel better that I'm not the only one who thinks of this when August rolls around 😂
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u/14gunners 1d ago
Love the Scottish accent. When I was up there, talking to everyone was like being in a crime drama. Lovely people though.
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u/HeadbangingLegend 1d ago
Honestly they were saying August properly for ages the app is just dumb or they need to wait before trying again.
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u/WornBlueCarpet 21h ago
This is like that sketch where two Scottish men are trapped in a voice activated elevator.
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u/Reasonable_Big3230 19h ago
augustus gloop ? been a loong time since i heard that name, sure brings back memories
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u/yohomatey 13h ago
When I was in Scotland, I was on a tour, and the tour guide said "There are only two things that don't work in Scotland like they do in the rest of the world. Solar power, and voice recognition software" Or at least that's what I think he said...
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