UK / US / South African English Vocabulary Differences
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
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Hi guys!
Today, I'm joined by American Daniela and South African Chantélle!
In this video, we're going to be talking about vocabulary differences in British, American and South African English!
It's quite interesting to find out differences between UK, US and SA words!
Hope you guys enjoy it! :)
*Special thanks to American Daniela and South African Chantélle!
Me as a south-african knows that:
Barbecue is a flavor... 🧂
But a *Braai* is what brings people together👼
Lekker lekker man
Preach
That's how it is 🇿🇦
Yebo
Bring die tjops
Tekkie town😂😂😂who else is from SA??
Woah I've never got this many likes 😁 thanks to all my fellow South Africans
I was actually working there 😂😂😂
Right here. Full on South African 😌
Hierso
Me , i know Tekkie Town
Never knew there were so many people
I love how when south Africa is mentioned the comments is basically only south African 😂
@fleetlordavtar I know
@fleetlordavtar not really
Yes south Africans are busy throwing comments 😂😂like me
@Gustav Van Heerden you right
We just comment even on live videos
Saying something like " am I the only south african here"😂
We are proud of our country
SA literally owns anything with “SA” in it. Edit: except power (bloody Eskom)
Bloody Eskom indeed😂
Best comment without a doubt
Bloody Eskom😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Freck man that's so true it hurts
Eskom kan gat lek
I swear every video that mention SA we always dominate the comments lol🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
True hey😂😂
South Africa is America if they lost against the Indians
Good observation Kallen, we're crazy like that 🤣🤣! The robots crack me up all the time..
Agreed!!!!we are the best!😁😁😁
Yep.
KOM ONS GAAN BRAAI !!♥️♥️🇿🇦 I'm from south Africa!🤣
Meme World ja man!!! Wors en tjoppies?? 😂
me too😂
Kan jy baie Afrikaans praat ja Afrikaans nie
Ons moet pap en vleis eet
When you are smiling at the screen because you know the South African version is going to be so different.😂 Hello to all my fellow South Africans!!
🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
When the robot pic, came on😅😅
@@cindimahtaj6455 IM american and I am confused
I really want to visit South Africa
It’s kind of weird watching people get confused when hearing words like robot, braai, etc. which I would consider to be perfectly normal. I never realised how different our vocabulary is until watching this video
Chantelle that was beautiful thank you for not generalising South Africa, but also letting your mates know about all the cultural influence in our english language
I've never heard a South African ever say maize 💀 that word is only on the packaging of maize meal, even then ppl still say mielie meal 🤣
Really
This is true.
Exactly we don't have time to say maize meal
Exactly. We never really use maize unless it is like pap
Yebo 🤣
Lol as a South African I can't stop laughing at how they were confused about robot😂😂
As an american I have no idea why they call it robot 😂😂😂
Its traffic light
I am from south africa and this is so accurate! Even her accent is accurate, much love
She's a true South African no doubt about it tekkies amatekkie
Ahhhh this is our girl so realllllllll🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
The only way a South African robot will move is if somebody drove into it.
daliya shohat 😂😂😂
daliya shohat 😂😭
Fokken taxi drivers pal😂
🙄😂😂😂😂👌🏽
daliya shohat yeah it’s a Vienna not a wors
i love how our SA rep started smirking the minute the picture of the robot popped up lmao
The robot part 😂😂
“
What do you mean robot!”
We have the best names
Like my fellow South Africans
👇
🤣🤣
"After robot driver" 😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Im from South Africa
The sausage is Vienna or Russian in my area 😂😂
Its that what we know thaks
That's how it is 🤣 🇿🇦
Lol right. I know boerewors as a specific kind of sausage. Like you will know what wors is when you see it. Not just for any sausage.
Russian
That we Mozambicans translated to Rachel =Russian.... Lol
Today, I went to Tekkie Town. On the way, I had to stop at a few robots thanks to traffic. When I got home, I took some mielies and wors out of my boot, and had a lekker braai😁 #ProudlySouthAfrican
❤🇿🇦
Eh I had lekker time at the braii
Mzansi for sho.
Mmmmm n Lekker braai
Bru those sweets were "Suckers"! xD
So what I've learned is that in South Africa, even when you're speaking English, you're still speaking Afrikaans lmao
Why is this the most accurate thing I've ever heard🤣🤣
Lmao 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
Basically yes..
Yes
We are special like that..
South African vocabulary is so amazing ❤🔥 I love being a south African mostly because our English is mixed with our national languages 😇❤❤
For example: You like to PHAPHA😂😂😂
@@lktdj4025 mfundisi . Tokoloshe. Yebo . Ya. Veld. Bro. Ntaaa. Yebo. Ag nie maan. Goegea. Wors.
Watching this as South African made me happy 😂
where you live?
100k YaYa is that so 😂
@@ashleigh_robyn yeah...
100k YaYa interesting...
😂😂M2 , I didn't know we had our own English, this needs to be official and stop saying we talk British English because clearly they different.
ROBOTS. Every African knows that 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
Ryan Chippy Yebo 😂😂
Traffic lights are to overrated
😂😂😂true
Don't try "traffic light" in a taxi 🤣
deadass
We dont "netflix n chill". We "braai n naai" n here
😂😂💀💀💀
Braai and swaii
If you dont understand for all naau means fuckk
Romalan Naicker so true
Yep and a swingers party is a "Swaaibraai" haha
I was out here shouting it's a russian! 😂
😂😂😂
@@kəanıncupıdo same here
🤣🤣🤣
👌🤣🤣🤣
VOROSO🤣🤣🤣
You know you in s.a when someone asks for your number and you start of by saying "O" instead of "zero" 😂😂😂
In the UK we also use "O" instead of zero.
@@kellypreston1549 in S.a too, and teachers get irritated saying it's zero not O. 😂
@@EnhleLove I learned it from my father who is British. I live in Germany and used to say "O" instead of "zero" in English lessons. Not only my English teachers where confused but also my class mates. I mostly use "O" instead of "zero". 😊
people get so mad in australia because i still use tekkies wors braii ...but i mean come one they call flipflops thongs..like no thats underwear
@@danaepretorius4667 "thongs" 😂that's so not okay. I am sure hey have gotten use to you by now. So with robots do they not look at you weird?
Looks like the only people in the comments are South African 😂🤗HOME
The Eclipse 🤣🤣🤣 i noticed
I miss my country 😥😥
Friends be like "I got mugged at the robots bruhh"😂😂😂
my home too🤗
I am British
That sausage is actually "Russian" or "Vienna" and "Wors" is stuffed like minced meat
I'm old enough to remember when Russians were coloured with cochineal
Yeah I was waiting for her to say Vienna or Russian... Wors is not that. I think she followed them because they were talking about sausages so 🤷🏾... But that's definitely not a wors
Lolipops are also called *stoksweets* in South Africa
Thank you Naledi
I did not know that thx
stokkieslekkers
Proudly South African 😂🇿🇦
Love how almost everyone in the comments are South African ❤️
If only we could be this enthusiastic about the place when talking amongst ourselves, and not only in the comments on videos by foreigners XD
The algorithm bring us all together
@@JACKBOOT12 xd true tho
That lollipop is commonly referred to as stock sweets.
Exactly lollipop too boujee
😂😂😂😂 Lollipop is for fancy occasions
Na bruh, that’s a sucker!!
Stick sweet.
🤣 yebo
4:22 U can see the SA one was already laughing inside 😂
US : Sneakers
UK : Trainers
SA : Takkies
LOL, in my country Australia is Runners
Tekkies. Not takkies
@@caydendewit47 ups typo
@@caydendewit47 some people do say takkies though. But tekkie is more common
Runners are chickens feet traditionally BRAAIED over am open flame here in Soith Africa amd sold a plenty at local taxi ranks amd so on
@@caydendewit47 No, plimmsols
Honestly this south african girl was a great representation of South Africans
millx Syer nai man she should have spoke about our (slang) coz white colored and black people all speak differentiations yeah man
I agree
True but she could have a more South African accent
She was 'n lekker stukkie vleis!
True
Anyone else South African 🇿🇦😊
Who am I kidding almost everyone here is South African
😂True🇿🇦💕
Nie ek nie
I am
Lol nie ek nie🤣🤣. Busted Bru!! I met a Scottish guy last night, he loves the way I speak. Always get told "I love your accent". And here's me thinking what accent? Everyone around me talks with a accent, I don't 🤣😂 I've been living in London for 5 years, I miss the South African lingo, not necessarily when Afrikaaners talk! Even in South Africa I prefer that Afrikaans people speak Afrikaans, English sounds horrible I actually cringe. I speak fluent Afrikaans to the point that I sound like a proper Afrikaaner apparently. Nobody can swear as good as a Afrikaans person 🤣😂!! I've dated a few Afrikaans guys, they taught me how to drink South African English guys under the table 🤣😂
Callyn Rose , each person should be proud of who they are. No one is better or worse than anyone else. Right? 😉
Her smile when she saw the robot made me laugh, I felt that
This was a fun video, most videos that include South Africa are just criticizing South Africa food, words or pronunciation. Thank you for this
Robots are the shortened version of robotic policeman. This is what they were originally called since obviously traffic was usually directed by police back in the day
www.adrianflux.co.uk/uk-us-car-part-names/boot-vs-trunk/
In older times of horse lead coaches there would be a locker for the men driving the coach to store their stuff (including boots). Eventually known as a boot locker and then shortened to just boot
So cool!!!
Barry you legend you. Thank you for the info
I work for a guy called Duncan Carter, any relation?
Dad's name is Desmond and mom is Angela.
Thanks for that bit of general knowledge, Barry. Will bring it up at the next braai. Lol.
I'm South African and I swear the meat on the stick is what we call a sausage. wors is something else
KhanyaGirl difference between sausage and meat is the amount of meat. Wors has more meat and less fat.
In the Western Cape and some parts of the Eastern Cape, they refer to it as wors.. Especially in the Afrikaans dominanted areas.
Ya you get a sausage and then you get a wors sausage.... and they are completely different 😂
@@danikamudali8873 I see now 😂... For 23 years I've been calling it Boere-wors, because everyone around me called it that 🤣🤣
Lilitha K lol I always knew a wors sausage as the long swirly brown sausage 😂😂
they're reactions to when she said "wors" was hilarious; wors comes from the German word "wurst" which means sausage. the Boerewors she was talking about is a specific type of mixed-meat sausage that originated in South Africa as a result of boere (farmers) experimenting with recipes, one variant made with 20% pork, 80% ground beef and coriander (cilantro) became widely popular across the country and became the de facto Boerewors (farmer's sausage). with so many recipes of Boerewors, our food administration even had to assemble a Boerewors council to ensure the traditional recipe is being respected and proper labelling is applied to wors of all types.
I just have to say, as an American, that was a hotdog. We also have sausages, but usually I think they are called by the type of sausage (bratwurst, polish, hot link etc). And for the candy: lollypop or sucker (which are a type of candy).
South African words sounds waaaaay hotter than american!!!
Is jy dronk?
Ja defenitief
proudly South African
Well said💓💓🇿🇦🇿🇦
I have to agree, our words sound great.
I thought they called it robot all over the world 😂 😂 😂
Me too 😂😂
🤣
Me too
Me too
😂😂😂
Geez like the first 50 + comments just south Africans 😂😂😂
Were my new viewing south africans at 😂❤⚓
Wors is actually something else in our part of SA there’s sausages and wors which are different (to our part)💞
When a South African boy invites you back home at 2am after the club for a braai. He really does mean a braai, and everyone else is comming too. 🇿🇦
I’m a South African who moved to Canada. I have to pinch myself every time I say robot Lmaoo
Ofure Ebhonu I’m South African and I want to move to Canada
@@masteryoda1745 hey master yo🅱️a
I am a simple man, I see Chantélle. I click like before watching. We are in good hands peeps. 🇿🇦
9:26 we in South Africa do say sweets, but for that specific one we call it a 'stokkielekker'.
So true lol
Suigstokkie bruh
Ons se ook stokkielekker.
I always said sucker, also South African
Any suid-afrikaners here like if ur south African 🇿🇦
I feel like Daniela really nailed the pronunciation of "braai" and "wors" 😂
In addition to Barbeque, Americans will also call it Grill. "We are going to grill out tonight" or "we are going to grill tonight." We will call the food "grilled" (i.e. grilled pork, grilled vegetables. But we will call it BBQ or Barbeque as well.
Older US term I've heard (actually read) was Steak Fry, may be even a Fry up or a Fry out (not sure I remember those options correctly though)
America: oh no the mountains on fire
Africa: get the meat we are going to braai
Nooo
Africa: Come there has been yet another farm murder
I feel so proudly South African right now😌✊🇿🇦
"After ROBOT driver !"
"After traffic light driving" is a lot for us.
Lmaooo!
😂😂😂🤙🤙
The one time in a taxi I said "After Traffic light driver" and he looked at me confused. "Eh? 🤔" then when I said "Robots" he said "Ewe fundini" and nodded knowingly. 😉
Lol😆 driver stop by the next robot
😂 😂 in the taxi "after robot"
The South African lady needs to put a disclaimer on the vid. sausage is a Russian.
Interesting. I'm originally from southern Africa, and now live in Canada. When we first came to Canada we were surprised to hear (dating myself) Bib Vila from "This Old House" refer to a hand basin as a lavatory. So in the US the lavatory is the hand basin, whereas in southern Africa and England it's the actual flushing toilet. I think I'm old enough to help Chantelle out on the "robot" thing. Way back, traffic was directed by policemen who stood on large half-barrel stages in the middle of the intersection, directing traffic. It was a very manual task, so when the traffic lights replaced the people we started calling them "robots" as they were machines that replaced human work. And on "braai", it's the Afrikaans word for "roast". I guess the origin is probably Dutch. On boerewors, that refers to a particular type of sausage--=farmer's sausage--of which there are plenty of recipes online. My old country, Zimbabwe, people called pork sausages, sausages, or sometimes 'bangers'. The tan or red hotdog type sausage we called "Vienna sausages" from the German pronunciation of 'wiener'. In the US and Canada they are called 'wieners' and pronounced exactly that way as one would say 'weaner' (being a calf not yet weaned from its mother). Regarding the candy, in Zimbabwe a 'lolly' would be frozen fruit flavoured snack on a stick, similar to an ice cream on a stick, but without the dairy. The type of candy shown were called lollypops. There was South African movie in the 1970s called e'lollypop. Lastly 'mielies' is the Afrikaans word for 'maize'.
One of the most common and versatile words in South Africa: Awe.
So true
Awe 😂👌🏼
in australia awe yeah, lol
And poes, awe poes
Is waar
That sausages looked more like a Vienna than Wors 🤣🤣 some braai the rest of us chesanyama 😋😋😋
Thats definitely a sausage not wors
I feel 100% the same way about it. That is not wors. It's a vienna.
😂😂😂😂she was capping, that was not a Wors.
I love how Chantelle started giggling when she saw the traffic light because she knew how they would react to us calling them robots 😂
Just to add in south africa we dont say Fueling Station/Gas station we call it Garage..the Garage😁
Proudly South African 🙋🏻♀️🇿🇦
Me too🇿🇦💕
🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦proud South African 😍
@Telive Qwenton agree 😂
The American girl so chilled. Ja the braai is the solution to the load shedding (power cuts) right now.
Fricking eskom🙄
wish we had that, nou is ons stuck in freaking quarantine
If you're from Durban you call them Sticksweets in South Africa. Or just Sweets.
those sweets are called "suckers" in SA! :)
In America 'suckers ' or 'lollipops' is the term used for such candy.
Suigstokkies...
In the southern US too. In northern US we'd call them lollipops.
Stokkielekker...
Stocksweet
"Boerewors" or "wors" is a very _specific_ type of sausage;. a long, coiled sausage that is "braaied". It is recognisable to any South African in appearance, smell and taste, and is an important part of the cuisine. You won't find a braai without wors.
The sausage shown in the image would be referred to as a typical sausage, if you brought that to a braai and called it "wors" you would be laughed at.
Undefined Variable it's a Vianna bro. have South Africans forgotten about the word Vianna??
@@mfundo6619 Nah bro, when I think of viennas I'm thinking of Enterprise viennas. Not that pretentious sausage you see there in the video. Call it a vienna if you want but don't put it between my buns.
WE call that kind of sausage a Russian in the townships
That 🌭 is called a waste of space on your braai 😆
Mfundo Ntoyi ya when I saw the picture I thought it was vianna 😂😂
I watched a similar video & the South African girl had NO IDEA what she was talking about! 😂🤦🏾 I'm glad you represented our country as best as you could 💕👌🏾
It's Kamo I’ve seen that one I did a reaction video to it !! She was waaay of base
I think that Maize has a connection with spanish "Maíz", and probably Miellie has a connection with portuguese "Milho".
On the button. Therefore we are correct. It's not "koring" which is Dutch for wheat.
This was so awesome ! I LOVE the choices of pictures you made It was so entertaining to see your reactions and different words for the same thing
Traffic lights are robots in Zimbabwe too lol
ahem you mean rhodesia
Because we are basically one ey, you guys are just around the corner
@@Nickster7 mugabe is dead you magandanga
@@nsa6865 yawn
I think everything is the same in SA and Zim
Chantelle's accuracy is forever on point. In all the videos❤️🙏🏾💯
JES SOUTH AFRICA WOOOOOOOOO IF YOU ARE AFRICAN THEN LIKE THIS IF YOU UNDERSTAND RAINBOW NAISHION
Never ever do we use the word 'maize' in RSA it's 'Mielies' unless you're referring to maize meal to make porridge 💁🏾♀️
we do where am from
or mielie meal, pap, phutu... lol
Nkosi
We do, and we say mielie meal. When making pap, we call it mielie pap.
@@sainjawoof3506 I was never referring to maize meal to begin with, I was referring to Mielies/ umbila. I've never heard anyone call Mielies "maize."
Awe Mense van die kaap 🤙🇿🇦🌈
Awe
Salute
Awe
Wayaaa
Hou gaan dit😂
I haven’t seen anyone mention this but I’m gonna have to put it out there… in Britain we do not call it maize it’s corn, sweet corn or corn on the cob!!! 🇬🇧
In South Africa if it's on a cob it's a Emilie, frozen in a bag or tin it's called corn and we call maize meal " maize", this girl lived under a rock in SA
6:08 in the Philippines 🇵🇭 we call in *trunk*
First time to hear boot
What I love about this is that it make us to realize how beautiful and amazing this country is (,RSA) , I love you SOUTH AFRICANS♥️♥️😍😘😘😘😘😘😘
I feel like most the people watching are South African 😂
Yeah,,,,boi we are South African🇿🇦💕
Sadsockz not really
Clearly I can tell that South Africa is mixing a lot of languages and make it one word
Yebo!
n Suigstokkie 🤣
the host guy is soooo sweet! I could listen to him all day.
As a Canadian, most of them lined up with the American vocabulary for me with the exception of "sneakers," or as I've always heard them called, "running shoes." Then you have your speciality shoes, which are usually just " shoes," with the exception of soccer cleats. You also have dress shoes, etc., and if you're in a hurry, and don't need to specify what kind, you can just say "shoes."
As YoungstaCPT says "We don't turn up, here we go bos!" In South Africa we have SO many cooler ways of saying things💖🇿🇦
🇿🇦South African English🔥🔥
I'm from South Africa,in Durban. We use the word "Mindrel" referring to cold beverages such as Coke, Sprite, Fanta etc..
Who else heard robot and immediately laughed🤣🤣🤣
Kano_ Peachy_ we are special y’all 🙈
They forgot bakkie (South African) or pickup truck or van or utility vehicle or just truck (which refers to a lorry here in SA)
I wanted to hear about the khombi/taxi /van. I feel like we have mixed these names up.
That is rather difficult @@percylight6695 as they could all refer to the same vehicle haha.
A combi has a sliding door and seats like 15 plus people. I think Volkswagen had a minibus thing with this name but the brand of choice here is Tata.
A taxi is also that but could refer to an Avanz or any car doing the thing those yellow cars in NYC do but they're seldom yellow and when they are they're extremely expensive.
Van usually refers to a worker pannel-van which is a larger type of car without windows or seating in the back but some also call the previous two as a van but with the a pronounced as an e.
I think that's about it, let me know if you wonder about anything else or if this was helpful.
Yep, this is exactly what I was thinking. To me a "Van" is kind of like a Khombi without the seats.
And Biltong? Awesome stuff that
In a south African way we call sweets stock sweets
😂😂 so true
a 'stok sweet' is a lollipop hahaha
That's probably because in Afrikaans it is called 'suigstokkies'.
Ma lekker lol
That's for a specific type of sweet
I remember watching this 2 years ago and now I've returned!!
In the South in America, traffic lights are commonly referred to as just lights. "You'll go through 3 lights and make a left."
This video made me feel Proudly South African....:) Love you all.
❤🇿🇦
I am south african, when it comes to the loo, when you at someones house you say bathroom, restaurant you ask for rest room and your own house you say I am going to the toilet.
Trueee😂
😂 😂 straight up! 👆
Spot on 🤣
I’ve never used the term restroom in SA. Growing up, I was never allowed to say “I’m going to the toilet”... it was considered very rude. I’ve always called it a bathroom or loo
Sometimes even gents and ladies
Braaing is definitely a solution to every problem 😂
Anyone else for south africa😂😂😂
Stop lying not all sausages are wors, mara we know WORS IS THE BEST!😍❤️
Amen
Amandla✊🏽
There's sausage and then there's WORS....
No that is a Vienna wors is differen
Yeah South African girl was confused there
NOU is ek lus Om te BRAAI
Enige iemand Anders van suidafrika af
Maar Alma se wors nie sausage nie
Ons eet boere wors man...ons doen daai sausage besigheid....
Braai is bobaas!
Ek is nie van SA af nie
@@malan_muller6093 ja jys van japan af. -.
@@imkarlii4458 ek weet
that awkward moment when they're calling a hotdog a sausage....
I know. It's a Vienna, not a "wors"!
Its Vienna or Russian
I am subscribed, but I really love just watching all these different videos that pop up
This is probably the first time that Afrikaans sounds "exotic"
😂
😁
Nobody:
Literally nobody:
Random South African:we use maize
All other South Africans: u jas whats that kak
Know maize as 'mielieblom'
8:37 wors us most common, but most of the time when it's more processed them we call it a viana
Their reaction to ‘wors’ 🙌🏾😂
"Lollipop" also known as "Suckers" in South Africa
Or stalk sweet
Stalk sweets iv never heard Suckers
I’ve heard of suckers in America but in SA very few people call it suckers 😂
@@Curious-Lee yeah u ryt, uqhunyiwe lo not suckers