{"id":8581,"date":"2013-05-09T10:20:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T10:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=8581"},"modified":"2013-05-09T10:20:18","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T10:20:18","slug":"we-no-spik-no-whalsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=8581","title":{"rendered":"We No Spik No Whalsa&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a song from one of the concerts I went to last week at the Shetland Folk Festival. It&#8217;s a version of Yolanda Be Cool&#8217;s &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Hhc3kikpdbA\">We No Speak Americano<\/a>&#8216; by Steven Robertson in Shetland dialect which makes fun of the Whalsay dialect, which people from other parts of Shetland find very funny and\/or incomprehensible. I couldn&#8217;t understand the bits in Whalsay dialect, but could follow most of the other bits.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1OB1daT_ENs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He also did versions of songs by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5QUV_LleYUM\">Tracy Chapman<\/a>, Lady Gaga and various others in Shetland dialect, which were hilarious.<\/p>\n<p>There are recordings of people from Whalsay, and other parts of Shetland and Orkney on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lel.ed.ac.uk\/dialects\/nis.html\">Edinburgh University site<\/a>, and some more on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/voices\/recordings\/group\/scotland-whalsay.shtml\">BBC Voices site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a song from one of the concerts I went to last week at the Shetland Folk Festival. It&#8217;s a version of Yolanda Be Cool&#8217;s &#8216;We No Speak Americano&#8216; by Steven Robertson in Shetland dialect which makes fun of the Whalsay dialect, which people from other parts of Shetland find very funny and\/or incomprehensible. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-scots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}