it has got to be the north east of Scotland, specifically Aberdeen and the Torry area. It is a dialect known as Doric
Incomprehensible
“Pikey” is an insulting word for “Gypsy”. Recently, though, “pikey” has come to mean members of a lower class.
Brad Pitt’s character wasn’t a Gypsy in the strictest sense of the word (depsite what the script said) but a member of the Irish travelling community, which has preserved an Irish dialect, often despite generations in England. For a stereotypical Irish impression of the Irish traveller accent, see the character Bridie from the satirical cartoon series Thinkzoo, who is equally unintelligible.
I’d say that it’s more specifically come to mean petty thiefs. With consequential verbing.
-
Scottish. A group of Scottish curlers visited my curling club last year, and I struggled to understand most of them.
-
Appalachian. To my ears, many in deep Appalachia sound like King of the Hill’s Boomhauer, only “twangier.” Consider that many in Appalachia were descended from Scots-Irish immigrants.
-
I will do the needful and oblige very very much please and most kindly choose the Indian accent very very much please yaar.
If you include those that don’t seak English as a first language, I’ll pick the English spoken by Chinese grad students in the US. It’s very breathy and barely enunciated.
I’ll pick any rural Irish accent spoken by someone over 70 with badly fitting dentures i.e. about 90% of my current patients, who are almost unintelligible to me without a lot of effort.
That’s utter pish.
Years ago, I was in France. Chartres, to be precise. I was in the cathedral, looking at a sign that explained some historical thing about the cathedral. The sign was in English, among other languages. A man was standing next to me, explaining something to his young son. I didn’t realize the man was speaking English until he started speaking numbers (he was telling his son what year the cathedral was built or something).
Turned out he was Scottish.
If we’re including Americans speaking incomprehensible English I nominate Snoop from the HBO series “The Wire”. I just watched season 4 and I’ll be damned if I understood a word she said. Even when I backed up, turned up the volume and tried again.
Inner-city Glasgow is the most incomprehensible English language accent. There’s not just one Glaswegian accent you know.
Not the most annoying mind you. That’s reserved from anyone in the North. Geordies, Scousers & the like.
i’m going to second West Kerry. There’s a guy down at the pub who I’ve been talking to for 15 years and I have never understood a word he has said.
I used to know someone from Glasgow, and his accent was perfectly clear to me. There must be localised areas within the city that have more unintelligibly thick accents.
Any good YouTube videos displaying incomprehensible
English?
Jamaican can be tough to follow.
Glasgow. I spent a semester in Edinburgh and didn’t have that much of a problem understanding people (except on the telephone). Central Glasgow was ok, but when we ended up at a flea market outside the tourist area – everyone suddenly became incomprehensible.
That sounds like you went to the Barras. Um, they speak Barrasish there, not Glaswegian 
Edit: Typo
Not where I live, anyway. It’s applied to welfare recipients, beggars, Big Issue sellers, people who would shop at Iceland for their Christmas dinner, etc.
Aha, the man who smacked the shit out of a terrorist who was on fire. Top bloke.
I’m amazed the CNN report doesn’t have subtitles. “He’s a big boy but he’s nae fer bein’ subdued.”
I needed to turn on subtitles to understand this movie.
I also spent some time near Newcastle and found the accent equally incomprehensible. The Edinburgh accent is a very close third.