America has "jumpers" too ... I saw one on the Golden Gate Bridge my first week in the USA. Though she was sweating (it was a hot day), and eventually the police arrived and talked her out of jumping, so I guess she was a sweater and not a jumper after all.
As far as I get this, Americans use "American words" along with "British words", but The Brits usually not. Because I've heard Amaricans use words like bin or jumpers.
We have gardens as well. Yards are plan pieces of land with grass and some trees as a filler. Gardens are purposely grown for vegetables, fruits, herbs, and floriculture. Again, is there no difference between the 2 in Britain? Closets are a part of the building. Wardrobes are a piece of moveable furniture. Cabinets=cupboards...cupboard is a type of cabinet.
@AozoraFai From what I have gathered from watching TV, a garden tends to have grass in Britain and a yard tends to have no grass but just concrete or whatever. That's the only difference I know of. If it's a removable piece of furniture I call it a wardrobe and if it's a door built into the property then I'd say cupboard. I'd probably only use the word cabinet for trophy cabinet or something other than clothes storage. Don't use closet at all, besides the phrase "in the closet".
Our biscuits are soft fluffy, flaky butter baked bread used during breakfast. Caretakers are for people who take care of cottages or villas while the owners are away. On the fries=chips and chips=crisps thing. What do you call products like Pringles since those are legally potato crisps (remashed potato mush into a uniform shape) in America? Movies is a term for the films airing in public. Cinema is the term for the building showing them. Does Britain only have 1 term for both?
@AozoraFai We call Pringles crisps. We call the building the cinema, and we call what is shown a film or a movie...I don't see what the confusion was there.
America uses trash cans and recycling bins to separate the 2. What term you use for recycling containers since bins is already used for trash/rubbish? Trousers are used as well, this is a term for more formal leg wear. Autumn is used...I don't think I've ever heard someone use Fall before. Bills and Dollars are fair game, though the term Bank Notes is more a historical term for old currency not in circulation (even Bank Notes are the proper term for modern currency). Scones are scones.
The British language? You mean the British dialect. Closets are bigger then wardrobes, wardrobes are only good for coats and going to Narnia! (JK on that last part)
I think he is right in a way. There is no British dialect, the Americans, Australians, Canadians, Russians and Indians have their own way of speaking the English language but the British people speak it the way it was Before some of them went to America, Australia, etc and changed it.
cabinet and cupboards are different things. A cabinet is like... sort of like a wardrobe is and is usually free-standing and a cupboard is for dishes and such, hence the word "cup-board". I believe in britain, though, a "cupboard" is what we call a closet, like where you store just about anything.
I have to thank you, though. I have an internet friend from the UK I've been talking to for years. YEARS. And he'd jokingly say things like: "Have a biscuit!" and I thought he was talking about the deliciousness of the light, fluffy bread. I just had to pause the video and ask him if he meant a cookie. This explains why he was confused when I told him I was eating a biscuit from the chicken place. Mystery solved. lol
@benebene765120 Ehrm... No, it wasn't KFC. It was Lee's Famous Recipe Chicken, which is BETTER than KFC. ;) I didn't specify as this chain isn't as big, so I didn't think the majority would understand what Lee's was. And the name wasn't really important anyway.
It's strange how many Brits don't realize that in America, Fall and Autumn are interchangeable. We just have one extra word for it than you guys do ;) . Plus, Fall makes more sense, since the leaves FALL off the trees xD .
@jayc342009 Uh, I don't recall asking you to speak to me so why exactly are you talking to me?. I didn't ask for your opinion or for you to elaborate on my statement, so I'm confused to the fact of why you actually think I give a fuck about what you have to say. Kick rocks.
There is no good equivalent to an American biscuit. There is just simply nothing else like it. Try to imagine a fresh dinner roll, but with a sour-ish buttermilk flavor. The outside is crusty and hard, while the inside is very soft and moist.
@Petegrin1 Me too, because I learned British English first before learning American English. I'm a French speaker from Belgium, of African and Caribbean origin. I live in the US since 1994 (MD and NY).
I learned this phrase when I was younger: "Got some petrol for my lorry?"
I now know what it means. and yes, biscuits here are little bread thingys. We also have gardens...you know, IN our yards. I refer to all my clothes as a whole as my "wardrobe" as do most people in America.
@Aminy23 we call sidewalks: paths and I've never heard of capsicums or whatever, we call peppers: peppers haha, there's also another one I can think of... You say zucchini , we say aubergine :)
Americans use both fall and autumn. We use the term yard to describe an area behind or in front of a house. A garden is an area with plants and possibly flowers, and it can be in a yard. A yard can have other elements such as a patio, a pond, a pool, or a play structure for children. Some more examples: Bell Peppers : Capsicum Sidewalk : Kerb/Curb Gasoline : Petrol Gas Station : Petrol Pump Trunk : Boot Hood : Bonnet Mad : Upset/Angry Crazy : Mad/Insane Wrench : Spanner à la mode: with ice cream
being born in canada when i was little i remember hearing these terms but now its rarely used . I remember back then we called oatmeal poridge but then i think sometime when they changed everything i was like wtf where do i find poridge... i can only find oattmeal loll that was just a funny story i guess.
haha I want to go to Britian one day but now that i knoww that there are alot of differences in the languages I know I have to do some reaserch first.
@flowertrue Either a baguette (Sorry if i spelt that wrong) or a sub depending on where you buy it from. I.e a baguette from a bakers or a sub from subway.
MY FRIGGEN GOSH!!! i wanna go to brittan so baaaaadddd!!! does anybody just want to go to talk to a person their!!??? Omg it would be so much fun and a awesome comparison
you're so precious. I was going to make a Ron Weasley crack but I just can't now because you are too adorable... Biscuits, by the way, are not like scones because I very seriously doubt you would eat a scone with gravy. Also, we do say cupboard but it will typically let those around you know that your family is from the mid west.
My family says "rubbish" but only when they say "Thats rubbish!" instead of "crap.." my dad's side is Australian so I guess thats where it comes from? A yard is just the grass, the garden is the flowers. A wardrobe would be a big cabinet type thing you put your clothes in, instead of a separate little room like a closet is.
about half of the "English" versions of words are also used in America, they just mean different things or they're both used.
Fall and Autumn are both commonly used, some people never say fall.
Movies are just a bit shorter/more casual, movie theaters are more commonly called cinemas (in their names) for example, "Danberry Cinemas" is the name or a theater near here.
A "wardrobe" is usually a piece of furniture that keeps clothes where-as a "closet" is usually built in.
US people say much better and u say far better, right? then i guess, then they tend to say class, and u say course. i would like to see more videos about british words and phrases :D
@xogiaaaox Yes we eat fast-food but ours isn't as grotesque as yours for example we both have McDonalds but at out McDonalds the burgers are actually smaller, no matter what burger you get.
US we use both fall and autumn. Also we use cinema, the movies, and the theater, personally everyone I know says theater. We have gardens as well, they are just a different meaning, if there are flowers and vegetables then it's a garden, if it's just grass, that's the yard. My wardrobe is in my closet, it's the clothes, not the area they are in.
I dont understad what evry one means by american accent? Evry one in the USA has a diffrent kinda accent im Mexican and im not from mexico or even born in mexico and i have this accent i guess cause i speak both english and spanish would that be considered n american accent? Or do you guys mean by the words?
Has he got a very pronounced trans-Atlantic twang or is it just me. People in the UK rarely say 'You guys' so maybe he's just been watching too many Friends episodes.
Americans are illiterate.They can't spell correctly and the pronounced every word the way it is spelled example the word Lieutenant which in correct English is pronounced left-tenant .There's lots of examples of this in the American tongue they don't understand the English language
@mahziel What i said is correct the English language is 40% old French that's why lots of words are pronounced different from the way they are spelled.The Americans spell different from the UK and pronounce certain words the way they are spelled they do not understand the English language
MAD is a big one I think.....Here is the US mad ONLY means angry. But in the UK I think you use that to mean crazy or nuts. I remember when I was growing up and I watched "alice in wonderland" and there was the Mad Hatter. I always used to wonder what he was mad at? And why he was angry?? It wasn't till I got much older that I understood it mean he was CRAZY and not mad (angry).
Pretty sure this is the only video on youtube involving differences between Americans and the British that doesn't involve either culture bashing the other. Thank you so much for your simply educational video rather than simply making fun of or ripping on the way American say things. You get a like/comment/subscribe for it.
Pretty sure this is the only video on youtube involving differences between Americans and the British that doesn't involve either culture bashing the other. Thank you so much for your simply educational video rather than simply making fun of or ripping on the way American say things. You get a like/comment/subscribe for it.
@nostalgiamelancolia1 whether you speak british english or american english it doesnt matter cuz english wasnt the first language to ever be spoken which means that a bunch of other (much older) languages have influenced this langauge.
Us Americans use both cupboard and cabinet interchangeably. Also, personally, as an American, the difference between a closet and a wardrobe is that a closet is actually a separate room, albeit a very small one, and may hold things other than clothing, and a wardrobe is an actual piece of furniture that is only for clothes.
@frazz2306 Are you talking about the accent in general or the kind that is advertised in the media? Because, there are numerous different accents in America, and only a few of them ACTUALLY sound nasally. (Like the Boston accent of stereotypical California Girl)
@ipc353 Yeah right!, how come? you call a place where you shop "store" and the English call it "shop" when someone steal from there,the English call them "shoplifter".now then,you Americans also call them "shoplifter" but how? if you buy at a store,not at a shop,so the American term would be "store thief" or something.same goes for a "Cock" and a "Rooster." in Latin American countries,a cock fight is like a sport .the English talk about attending a cock fight,not a rooster fight.
If I say some of these British words around school, I'm certain that someone will call me gay XP lol (I'm American and these words to me just sound...not gramically correct)
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love how he addresses the viewer as "you guys," assuming that he/she is American. great video tho, you could work on putting some more spunk in your voice to make it less monotonous
lol I asked my English friend what a lorry was and he looked taken back and he goes "what the hell is a lorry" and I was like "how should I know your the english one" so thanks for clearing that up
"Wardrobe" in the US refers to all of you clothes, or at least in California. For example, if you only have bad clothes, someone might say that, "You need to change your wardrobe"
I remember meeting an English girl and there were a few random slang words that I wasn't expecting. Rubbish was one of the first ones that surprised me; I also remember she called commercials "adverts" I think (or something like that).
fags in uk = cigeretts, fags in america = gay people i.e if you are english and would like to ask an american for a cigerette don't say "excuse me, can i have a fag?"
Being Canadian I use both British and American terminology so nothing I say there was new. I'm sure that Americans say quite a few of them interchangeably as well.
lol i never say cabinet... its always been a cupboard.
BKUK0 1 day ago
You guys have watches...we have ticky time johnnies.
ImTheBlackJesus 3 days ago
it depends on the person or family, I say cupboards, most of those other words, and i'm american(:
sillymia4 2 weeks ago
actually i say about like half of those words
BeDisaster123 2 weeks ago 5
yards here in America generally refer to grass covered surfaces,while gardens are where you would grow fruits/vegetables
420420KAT 2 weeks ago
go uk we rule not America i live in Scotland
puppyrocks1 2 weeks ago
Thank you so much , What you are posting it gonna be my test. Thank you
Janphen72 3 weeks ago in playlist british english
so thats what caretaker is
lol and i had no idea a jumper meant sweater lol
next time i read harry potter ill put this in mind
thegerl13 3 weeks ago
Harry potter: "A vanishing cabinet?"
Theory disproven.
BaNdIToAnDrEaS 3 weeks ago
Biscuits aren't like scones. They look similar but they are made differently.
xxchelseaxnicolexx 3 weeks ago
All I hear is 'ssss s s s s s s s s s sss'
ThundagaFTW 3 weeks ago
theirs also sidewalk= pavement elevator= lift and zebra= zebra (its said differently, ad least thats what i know from Phil and Dan)
EveloXD 3 weeks ago
You're adorable.
nosferatuash 3 weeks ago
I've learned that british people are way classier.
llamafulloshit 3 weeks ago 2
in scotland we say janitors too lol
slytherkatify 1 month ago
America has "jumpers" too ... I saw one on the Golden Gate Bridge my first week in the USA. Though she was sweating (it was a hot day), and eventually the police arrived and talked her out of jumping, so I guess she was a sweater and not a jumper after all.
flyingflex 1 month ago
i like your acne bro
modshroom 1 month ago
WAT THE F*CK! YOU SHOT ME! WAT WAS THE F*CKING POINT OF THAT! lol:)
stressedpoet 1 month ago
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stressedpoet 1 month ago
As far as I get this, Americans use "American words" along with "British words", but The Brits usually not. Because I've heard Amaricans use words like bin or jumpers.
JenovaMackenzie 1 month ago
Most people say cupboards.
MsKush13 1 month ago
England has both Antenna and Ariels.
England has both cabinets and cupboards.
Nobody says bank notes lol. It's all just money.
Vimtox 1 month ago
The east coast has Highways, The west coast has Freeways...just wanted to point that out...
karlababii909 1 month ago
the wardrobe goes in the closet
TheLoveIsWaiting42 1 month ago
Eddie Izzard did it better
123456supersunny 1 month ago
I loved you in Harry Potter! Ron, is it?
stone412 1 month ago
@PopcornWales14 we call them pants...
xchokethathoe 1 month ago
cant see these words through your black tie
samcomposer 1 month ago in playlist British vs American English
We have gardens as well. Yards are plan pieces of land with grass and some trees as a filler. Gardens are purposely grown for vegetables, fruits, herbs, and floriculture. Again, is there no difference between the 2 in Britain? Closets are a part of the building. Wardrobes are a piece of moveable furniture. Cabinets=cupboards...cupboard is a type of cabinet.
And those are the things that don't match up~
AozoraFai 1 month ago
@AozoraFai
Agree!
germber 1 month ago
@AozoraFai From what I have gathered from watching TV, a garden tends to have grass in Britain and a yard tends to have no grass but just concrete or whatever. That's the only difference I know of. If it's a removable piece of furniture I call it a wardrobe and if it's a door built into the property then I'd say cupboard. I'd probably only use the word cabinet for trophy cabinet or something other than clothes storage. Don't use closet at all, besides the phrase "in the closet".
chelsea1289 1 month ago
Our biscuits are soft fluffy, flaky butter baked bread used during breakfast. Caretakers are for people who take care of cottages or villas while the owners are away. On the fries=chips and chips=crisps thing. What do you call products like Pringles since those are legally potato crisps (remashed potato mush into a uniform shape) in America? Movies is a term for the films airing in public. Cinema is the term for the building showing them. Does Britain only have 1 term for both?
AozoraFai 1 month ago
@AozoraFai We call Pringles crisps. We call the building the cinema, and we call what is shown a film or a movie...I don't see what the confusion was there.
chelsea1289 1 month ago
America uses trash cans and recycling bins to separate the 2. What term you use for recycling containers since bins is already used for trash/rubbish? Trousers are used as well, this is a term for more formal leg wear. Autumn is used...I don't think I've ever heard someone use Fall before. Bills and Dollars are fair game, though the term Bank Notes is more a historical term for old currency not in circulation (even Bank Notes are the proper term for modern currency). Scones are scones.
AozoraFai 1 month ago
@AozoraFai Simple, one is a rubbish bin and the other is a recycle bin.
chelsea1289 1 month ago
thanks for the info... ill use it during my vacation in London...
cronatrone1 1 month ago
So if they call trousers 'pants' in America, what do they call their ACTUAL pants?
PopcornWales14 1 month ago
Very educational. Also, you look like Ron Weasley.
WolfRaven999 1 month ago
We have gardens, but they are in the yards. like the yard is just grass and the garden is flowers and/or vegetables.
awesomeness3932 1 month ago
The British language? You mean the British dialect. Closets are bigger then wardrobes, wardrobes are only good for coats and going to Narnia! (JK on that last part)
ascarletmoon17 1 month ago
@ascarletmoon17
I think he is right in a way. There is no British dialect, the Americans, Australians, Canadians, Russians and Indians have their own way of speaking the English language but the British people speak it the way it was Before some of them went to America, Australia, etc and changed it.
BlueMondayMo 1 month ago
cabinet and cupboards are different things. A cabinet is like... sort of like a wardrobe is and is usually free-standing and a cupboard is for dishes and such, hence the word "cup-board". I believe in britain, though, a "cupboard" is what we call a closet, like where you store just about anything.
xXpurpletuesdayXx 1 month ago
i never say cabnet i say cupboards :P
benebene765120 1 month ago
I have to thank you, though. I have an internet friend from the UK I've been talking to for years. YEARS. And he'd jokingly say things like: "Have a biscuit!" and I thought he was talking about the deliciousness of the light, fluffy bread. I just had to pause the video and ask him if he meant a cookie. This explains why he was confused when I told him I was eating a biscuit from the chicken place. Mystery solved. lol
rjb112010 1 month ago
@rjb112010
lol it's kfc not chicken place :P the first one was established it salt lake city,utah i live there O:
benebene765120 1 month ago
@benebene765120 Ehrm... No, it wasn't KFC. It was Lee's Famous Recipe Chicken, which is BETTER than KFC. ;) I didn't specify as this chain isn't as big, so I didn't think the majority would understand what Lee's was. And the name wasn't really important anyway.
rjb112010 1 month ago
@rjb112010 12 min later... lol oh it's better? i've been to the first kfc ever built! :D it used to be called ramona cafe O:
benebene765120 1 month ago
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rjb112010 1 month ago
@benebene765120 Er... Okay... That's... cool, I guess...
Now I'm going to shut up. Because fried chicken has absolutely nothing to do with the video. :) (Even if it *is* awesome.)
rjb112010 1 month ago
@rjb112010 :P
benebene765120 1 month ago
As a few others have said, fall and autumn are interchangeable. But so are cabinets and cupboards! I say both.
rjb112010 1 month ago
It's strange how many Brits don't realize that in America, Fall and Autumn are interchangeable. We just have one extra word for it than you guys do ;) . Plus, Fall makes more sense, since the leaves FALL off the trees xD .
IceMetalPunk 1 month ago
We say autumn too! Either one.
stripedsockscat 1 month ago
@DiZzEeRaScAl14 Ikr, So I most definitely pay homage to the original English but it's just not my cup of tea.
TeasaaWasHere 1 month ago
@jayc342009 Uh, I don't recall asking you to speak to me so why exactly are you talking to me?. I didn't ask for your opinion or for you to elaborate on my statement, so I'm confused to the fact of why you actually think I give a fuck about what you have to say. Kick rocks.
TeasaaWasHere 2 months ago
There is no good equivalent to an American biscuit. There is just simply nothing else like it. Try to imagine a fresh dinner roll, but with a sour-ish buttermilk flavor. The outside is crusty and hard, while the inside is very soft and moist.
Daemon18553 2 months ago
@TeasaaWasHere but british english is the original language =O
DiZzEeRaScAl14 2 months ago
I like American English WAY better not just because I'm American but I just like it more than British English.
TeasaaWasHere 2 months ago
@TeasaaWasHere Why? It's basically the same? Idiot.
jayc342009 2 months ago
Fish and chips!
nellie2581 2 months ago
We Yanks also use "Autumn" to describe our "Fall" season.
GruppeSechs2004 2 months ago
so Brits call their entire yard a garden? in the US a garden is just where you grow stuff like flowers/food
luv4drums1 2 months ago
many Americans do call trash cans bins and do call fall autumn, but despite that I did learn that cookies r called biscuits in Britain
xXMrSkimpyXx 2 months ago
we say autumn or fall in the part of america were i live
dhsoccer3 2 months ago
I like brittish WAY more than American English.. just saying .)
Petegrin1 2 months ago
@Petegrin1 Me too, because I learned British English first before learning American English. I'm a French speaker from Belgium, of African and Caribbean origin. I live in the US since 1994 (MD and NY).
nellie2581 2 months ago
You forgot
boot = trunk
loo = restroom
ChanteMarquis 2 months ago
@ChanteMarquis That's true
nellie2581 2 months ago
americans say "aluminum" oddly as well.
acav5790 2 months ago
@acav5790 oddly?! its the RIGHT way to say it because its the AMURIKUN way! jk :P
luv4drums1 2 months ago
@acav5790 they pronounce it "al-oo-min-um"
MCJoeyW 2 months ago
I learned this phrase when I was younger: "Got some petrol for my lorry?"
I now know what it means. and yes, biscuits here are little bread thingys. We also have gardens...you know, IN our yards. I refer to all my clothes as a whole as my "wardrobe" as do most people in America.
courtneylustic01 2 months ago
You look like a burn victim.
lostalex77 2 months ago
@Aminy23 we call sidewalks: paths and I've never heard of capsicums or whatever, we call peppers: peppers haha, there's also another one I can think of... You say zucchini , we say aubergine :)
Mascapownee 2 months ago
cabinets and wardrobes are different things here!!
cadillachan 2 months ago
Actually some Americans say Autumn too, but fall is faster to say xD
redmamysara 2 months ago 20
LORRIES 1:10
Dragonsbanea 2 months ago
it's just more proper .... but WATEVA!!! :p
Lauraloli1 2 months ago
aminy23 2 months ago 4
@aminy23 ok ok we get it geez
MrShwinny 3 weeks ago
being born in canada when i was little i remember hearing these terms but now its rarely used . I remember back then we called oatmeal poridge but then i think sometime when they changed everything i was like wtf where do i find poridge... i can only find oattmeal loll that was just a funny story i guess.
okpapereat 2 months ago
You sound American. Or like an American who's trying his best to speak with a British accent.
MacGyver920 3 months ago
Haha some of the words are actually interchangeable...
We say some of the same words that you do.
:)
airman429jason 3 months ago
@airman429jason Yeh, sometimes I don't feel that there is any difference!
MrMulticulturalist 3 months ago
haha I want to go to Britian one day but now that i knoww that there are alot of differences in the languages I know I have to do some reaserch first.
stmb1 3 months ago
So what do you call a big sandwich on a long roll with lots of lettuce and tomato and mayo? A Sub? A Hoagie? A Hero? A Grinder?
flowertrue 3 months ago
@flowertrue Either a baguette (Sorry if i spelt that wrong) or a sub depending on where you buy it from. I.e a baguette from a bakers or a sub from subway.
moctuzuma 3 months ago
MY FRIGGEN GOSH!!! i wanna go to brittan so baaaaadddd!!! does anybody just want to go to talk to a person their!!??? Omg it would be so much fun and a awesome comparison
jessifoley 3 months ago
im american and i say trash bin, and a cabinet is the same as a cupbored depends on the state i say both.. woo
emmalyn15fire 3 months ago
tha fuck?
djBOMBLiKE 3 months ago
britain wins
even though i'm american
yankovic1234 3 months ago 10
So a F-150 is a Lorry? Damn, I live in Texas and I'm gonna start calling trucks lorry's.
AlexGirlYeah 3 months ago
"YALL" have jelly we US have jell-o "YALL" have bum we have HOBO YALL have
fanny we have pus*y YALL have strok we have pet :D
Randomtv102 3 months ago
Nice poster of Niko in the background ^.^
poppx3 3 months ago
you're so precious. I was going to make a Ron Weasley crack but I just can't now because you are too adorable... Biscuits, by the way, are not like scones because I very seriously doubt you would eat a scone with gravy. Also, we do say cupboard but it will typically let those around you know that your family is from the mid west.
GdGllyMolly 3 months ago
o_o *brain broke*
99LinkinPark991 4 months ago
My family says "rubbish" but only when they say "Thats rubbish!" instead of "crap.." my dad's side is Australian so I guess thats where it comes from? A yard is just the grass, the garden is the flowers. A wardrobe would be a big cabinet type thing you put your clothes in, instead of a separate little room like a closet is.
senorSHAZAM 4 months ago in playlist More videos from lukecooldude
about half of the "English" versions of words are also used in America, they just mean different things or they're both used.
Fall and Autumn are both commonly used, some people never say fall.
Movies are just a bit shorter/more casual, movie theaters are more commonly called cinemas (in their names) for example, "Danberry Cinemas" is the name or a theater near here.
A "wardrobe" is usually a piece of furniture that keeps clothes where-as a "closet" is usually built in.
worganyos 4 months ago
US people say much better and u say far better, right? then i guess, then they tend to say class, and u say course. i would like to see more videos about british words and phrases :D
Dergicetea 4 months ago
britain is class
nb45001 4 months ago
Alooooominum=Aluminium
Toooooooob=tube
TheMikeAndJoeShows 4 months ago
i say cupbords not cabnites..well i say both..whatever my brain tells me to say at that moment..lol oh yeah did u do the mom-mum thing?
migitman9871 5 months ago
American - main street British - high street
In Britain; I'm going shopping in the high street
patsybob 5 months ago
'You guys are fat = we are skinny' add that
AppleMacgic911 5 months ago
@AppleMacgic911 um really u people prob eat the same shit as Americans do so shut up
xogiaaaox 4 months ago
@xogiaaaox i think you'l find we don't. Here's one we don't eat - Peanut Butter Jelly sandwich. The thought makes me sick.
AppleMacgic911 4 months ago
@AppleMacgic911 wow but u guys still eat fast food so really americans= skinny and fat
and british= skinny and fat
xogiaaaox 4 months ago
@xogiaaaox Yes we eat fast-food but ours isn't as grotesque as yours for example we both have McDonalds but at out McDonalds the burgers are actually smaller, no matter what burger you get.
AppleMacgic911 4 months ago
US we use both fall and autumn. Also we use cinema, the movies, and the theater, personally everyone I know says theater. We have gardens as well, they are just a different meaning, if there are flowers and vegetables then it's a garden, if it's just grass, that's the yard. My wardrobe is in my closet, it's the clothes, not the area they are in.
blahk04 5 months ago
I dont understad what evry one means by american accent? Evry one in the USA has a diffrent kinda accent im Mexican and im not from mexico or even born in mexico and i have this accent i guess cause i speak both english and spanish would that be considered n american accent? Or do you guys mean by the words?
fuckedyourmom420 5 months ago
I say some of these words even if I am american.
TheDest900 5 months ago
Has he got a very pronounced trans-Atlantic twang or is it just me. People in the UK rarely say 'You guys' so maybe he's just been watching too many Friends episodes.
littlesmew 5 months ago
0:04 best part xD
EricTheKartoonKing 5 months ago
i love american accent but i do accept british accent... i love something simple n easy to pronounce n for that american accent is suitable for me...
ImperialEarthEmpire 6 months ago
Americans are illiterate.They can't spell correctly and the pronounced every word the way it is spelled example the word Lieutenant which in correct English is pronounced left-tenant .There's lots of examples of this in the American tongue they don't understand the English language
1stLordTheAdmiralty1 6 months ago
@1stLordTheAdmiralty1 I'm sorry but where the fuck did that f come from? here's a word for you, "enunciate". PRACTICE THIS!
mahziel 6 months ago
@mahziel What i said is correct the English language is 40% old French that's why lots of words are pronounced different from the way they are spelled.The Americans spell different from the UK and pronounce certain words the way they are spelled they do not understand the English language
1stLordTheAdmiralty1 6 months ago
This video really helps persons who is learning the english.... I like the british more than american english
1rioken 6 months ago
I prefer British !
bluehoney6 6 months ago
MAD is a big one I think.....Here is the US mad ONLY means angry. But in the UK I think you use that to mean crazy or nuts. I remember when I was growing up and I watched "alice in wonderland" and there was the Mad Hatter. I always used to wonder what he was mad at? And why he was angry?? It wasn't till I got much older that I understood it mean he was CRAZY and not mad (angry).
GAYPRIDE1985 6 months ago
@GAYPRIDE1985 In Australia, Mad means cool.
"that's mad!"
JacksonnQ 6 months ago
@JacksonnQ
LOL cool!!!!
GAYPRIDE1985 6 months ago
Pretty sure this is the only video on youtube involving differences between Americans and the British that doesn't involve either culture bashing the other. Thank you so much for your simply educational video rather than simply making fun of or ripping on the way American say things. You get a like/comment/subscribe for it.
Mitchell556 7 months ago
Pretty sure this is the only video on youtube involving differences between Americans and the British that doesn't involve either culture bashing the other. Thank you so much for your simply educational video rather than simply making fun of or ripping on the way American say things. You get a like/comment/subscribe for it.
Mitchell556 7 months ago
Bills in America is what we pay, bank notes is paper money
bvbowler247 7 months ago
im from hungary and i prefer using british words, exeptions are movie and gas
its offtopic but who is that guy on the left poster?!
ZzR3ACTzZ 7 months ago
Gas,filling or service station in the U.S. petrol station or garage in Britain.
nostalgiamelancolia1 8 months ago
A gas station in Britain is a garage.however,a garage is also a car repair shop.
nostalgiamelancolia1 8 months ago
American English is just a branch of English English just like Canadian English because both countries were British colonies,period.
nostalgiamelancolia1 8 months ago
@nostalgiamelancolia1 whether you speak british english or american english it doesnt matter cuz english wasnt the first language to ever be spoken which means that a bunch of other (much older) languages have influenced this langauge.
ilovesparky13 7 months ago
Us Americans use both cupboard and cabinet interchangeably. Also, personally, as an American, the difference between a closet and a wardrobe is that a closet is actually a separate room, albeit a very small one, and may hold things other than clothing, and a wardrobe is an actual piece of furniture that is only for clothes.
8kinkos8 8 months ago
I'm from the Midwest and we use the several of those word like that...
funnygurlsrok 8 months ago
And Zed = Zee Dangit :-)
Namnarooni 8 months ago
Bullshit = Bollocks
Really Cool = Dog's Bollocks
Aluminum = Aluminium <-- Too many letters, even my spell checker thinks so ;-)
Dissing (Modern US) = Slagging off
19 years in the oilfield, all over.. I've had this conversation a few times... lol
Always fun though...
Namnarooni 8 months ago
Fancy - UK - Verb: To like or adore
Fancy - US - Noun: Mildly extravagant, or posh (UK) lol
Namnarooni 8 months ago
Trunk = Boot
Namnarooni 8 months ago
Cigarettes = Fags
Namnarooni 8 months ago
how come your accent isn't that strong?
bnatrl88 8 months ago
This is so helpful. Now I can understand what my British friend talks about XD
cartunegirl56 9 months ago
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lol hmm? I say some british words too? i haven't knew Lmao xD learn something new everyday
HereMason 9 months ago
lol hmm? I say some british words too? i haven't knew Lmao xD learn something ew everyday
HereMason 9 months ago
@ipc353 hardly... the American accent is annoying and nasally
frazz2306 9 months ago
@frazz2306 Are you talking about the accent in general or the kind that is advertised in the media? Because, there are numerous different accents in America, and only a few of them ACTUALLY sound nasally. (Like the Boston accent of stereotypical California Girl)
kataangluv100 3 months ago
We Americans sounds better. so fuck off :)
ipc353 9 months ago
@ipc353 Yeah right!, how come? you call a place where you shop "store" and the English call it "shop" when someone steal from there,the English call them "shoplifter".now then,you Americans also call them "shoplifter" but how? if you buy at a store,not at a shop,so the American term would be "store thief" or something.same goes for a "Cock" and a "Rooster." in Latin American countries,a cock fight is like a sport .the English talk about attending a cock fight,not a rooster fight.
nostalgiamelancolia1 8 months ago
what the hell did he just prettend to shoot the camera that's sooo lame...
xx034821xx 9 months ago
If I say some of these British words around school, I'm certain that someone will call me gay XP lol (I'm American and these words to me just sound...not gramically correct)
racheybaby99 10 months ago
Canadians have chesterfields. And we were toques.
CanadiaMiliatry15 10 months ago
I say Autumn. I also have a garden.
FocusDefect 10 months ago
:)
engine44 10 months ago
I call em cupboards in the kitchen. The shelves behind the mirror in my bathroom is what I call a cabinet(im american)
kemoblue4u 10 months ago
hi! buddy! im from san diego ca usa and i d like you upload more of your english language and expressions
i love ur way to speak thank you!
fernando6691 10 months ago
I call my cabinets the cupboards and I'm American.
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coolguy22876 10 months ago
Um If Erasers Are Rubbers, Is "Erased' The Same Thing?
XxXJigsawJuliaXxX 11 months ago
@XxXJigsawJuliaXxX Instead of saying 'I've just erased it.', we tend to say 'I've just rubbed it out.'
It makes sense if you say erased though.
Sipper0 10 months ago
So Like, Idk Here's A Sentence I Made Up:
"I Threw My Trousers In The Bin!" xD
Riteee? :O
XxXJigsawJuliaXxX 11 months ago
love how he addresses the viewer as "you guys," assuming that he/she is American. great video tho, you could work on putting some more spunk in your voice to make it less monotonous
limedesi4 11 months ago
@limedesi4
You Can Say "You Guys" When You're British, There's No Rule O_O
XxXJigsawJuliaXxX 11 months ago
Some of te British words he said we actually use
Jdoggcrash 11 months ago
lol I asked my English friend what a lorry was and he looked taken back and he goes "what the hell is a lorry" and I was like "how should I know your the english one" so thanks for clearing that up
az09az63 11 months ago
@az09az63 Any English person who doesn't know what a Lorry is cannot be English. It's like an American not knowing what a Hamburger is.
ojideagu 11 months ago
"Wardrobe" in the US refers to all of you clothes, or at least in California. For example, if you only have bad clothes, someone might say that, "You need to change your wardrobe"
WakeBoarderMatt 11 months ago
We usually say cookies if its a large and round biscuit.
menamesjames 1 year ago
As far as I know Americans say theatre when they mean cinema.
audience2 1 year ago
@audience2 Yes, we say theater.
Invictus7filth 1 year ago
I remember meeting an English girl and there were a few random slang words that I wasn't expecting. Rubbish was one of the first ones that surprised me; I also remember she called commercials "adverts" I think (or something like that).
musiclover2399 1 year ago
@musiclover2399
I'm english (100%) and yes the english way of saying commercials is Adverts or ads, also nappy
instead of diper, cinema instead of theatre, and yes, Rubbish instead of trash. And I am an english girl.
Pikachufan2882 1 year ago
@Pikachufan2882 So instead of diaper, you might say nappy? Interesting.
Also yeah, I'd heard the cinema/theater (with the "e" before the "r") comparison before too.
musiclover2399 1 year ago
@musiclover2399 rubbish isn't a slang.it's the correct form to refer to what Americans call "garbage or trash"
nostalgiamelancolia1 8 months ago
fags in uk = cigeretts, fags in america = gay people i.e if you are english and would like to ask an american for a cigerette don't say "excuse me, can i have a fag?"
themorganator4 1 year ago 5
Being Canadian I use both British and American terminology so nothing I say there was new. I'm sure that Americans say quite a few of them interchangeably as well.
HojoOSanagi 1 year ago