American Reacts to 101 Facts About the UK | Part 3
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As an American there are some many things about the UK that I don't know about. Today I am very excited to conclude learning about 101 unique facts about the UK that I have never learned about before. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
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England never actually spoke French
French was the language of English nobility, but the commoners still spoke English. French words did seep in though, usually to describe 'Upper class' stuff.
This is where we get the phrase 'Lingua Franca' from, which means 'Common Tongue'.
Touché. Personally, I'll never use any French words though. I will never support the bourgeois. In fact, at that point I'd say we should rendezvous for a coup d'état. In fact, I could call my chauffeur and be en route in minutes. I'll get the crème de la crème to gather en masse, and voilà! We have a revolution on our hands. Viva la résistance! I know this is cliché, but something about this situation is giving me déjà vu. Oh well, c'est la vie!
Modern English is derived from several languages but old English is a Germanic language brought to us by the Anglo Saxons
There was a time when English as we speak it now didn't exist and I have heard previously that French was the most commonly spoken language in Southern England with one of the Scandinavian languages being more common in the North.
@@shaunw9270Perhsps I have misunderstood but I cannot see how that could be true. The Anglo-Saxon languages arrived here after 410 AD. French did not arrive until 1066. Most documents were written in latin overall but enough has survived in Anglo-Saxon writing to indicate that Old English most certainly was spoken in southern England before 1066 and the transition to Middle English with absorption of French vocabulary on top of the existing vocabulary and grammar of English occurred gradually after that.
Words of Viking origin from 9th century Scandinavia will no doubt have been absorbed in the area occupied by the Danelaw, north of London, more than elsewhere.
The classic poem Beowulf exists in only one original copy dating from before the Norman Conquest, to between 975 and 1025 AD and is written in the West Saxon dialect, proving that the people of Wessex were speaking and writing English, not French. Much of the southern part of England was in Wessex.
The language that was spoken was Old English very close to Freisian/ German
I love how the Anne Hathaway joke went right over his head Lol
The UK constitution is written in 100s of different statutes or laws rather than a list in one single document
Lawyers and Judges will often spend months or years going through transcripts of previous judgements and rulings/convictions, often going back centuries and often written in Latin, to see if a judgement or even a law is legal and within the constitution when an appeal made against a law or a judgement/conviction. Who'd be a Supreme Court Judge, some weight to shoulder.
Which is what makes it so complicated.
Most are.
The Tower which holds 'Big Ben' was first known as St Stephens, but was renamed 'Elizabeth's Tower' sometime ago.
In 2012, in honour of our now late Queen Elizabeth II's then Diamond Jubilee - 60 years as our Monarch. 😏🏴❤️🖖
Shakespeare probably didn't invent all those words, but he was the first to put them in writing. Remember that in the olden days mostly scholars and people connected to the church wrote stuff down that is preserved to this day. And their vocabulary wasn't really the same as the common man's.
You have got to see David Mitchell as Shakespeare, in " Upstart Crow" written by Ben Elton.
Or study English properly!
I have foxes and badgers coming in my garden in Hastings UK for their supper. Love 'em
The reason why the British library (BL) is so big is that it acts as the legal deposit since 1610, which ensures the library receives a free copy of every printed item published or distributed in Britain. Over the years this has been extended to cover music, video and recorded sounds, since 2003 this was extended to cover electronic documents, e.g. CDs, DVDs, audio books and websites, Fun fact the library has a collection of almost all the newspapers published in Britain and Ireland since 1640.
Wow thats really cool, to bad these new generations don't read books 😮, only write silly comments. Thank God I'm from a generation who still love books 😊🎉
...and a repository of 1000s of MP3s and Porn videos...?
I think when books are printed a copy has to be sent to the British Library.
The second-best bed was the couples marital bed and rather special to them!
The Commonwealth is mostly comprised of former colonies but other nations now can, and have, joined. Mozambique is a member and it is a former Portuguese colony, never British 😀.
Actually the Swans thing applies only to ones on the Thames...not all as is commonly said🎩
As far as I understand, the Queen/King owns the Swans in the Thames, NOT in the whole country
You're sort of right. The Royal Crown has the right to own all unmarked muted swans in all open waters throughout England but the King only exercises the rights to certain parts of the Thames and surrounding areas.
What i want to know is: Can I EAT a Swan (not a Mute Swan) if it dies naturally...?
A google search only tells me its illegal to "Kill and eat" a swan.
The tower housing Big Ben was formally known as St. Stephen's Tower until 2012, when it was renamed Elizabeth Tower on the occasion of Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee, celebrating 60 years on the British throne.
We are a small country but we had a big impact. ❤️🇬🇧
I was born and raised in Gravesend and I can confirm Pocahontas is indeed buried there and I have many times walked past the statue in Saint Georges church... considering they built a really awful shopping centre right next to it lol.
People from Liverpool are also called Liverpudlians.
The most common pre decimal UK coins were called THE FARTHING, HALFPENNY, PENNY, THREEPENCE, SIXPENCE, SHILLING, FLORIN, HALF CROWN. We also had the POUND NOTE, FIVE POUND NOTE AND TEN POUND NOTE.
The Monarch only owns the MUTE SWANS not ALL swans !
Cromwell banned Christmas altogether.
Don't forget the 10 shilling note (usually known as a 10 bob note).
. . . and only those mute swans on a limited stretch of waterway . . .
Technically Cromwell didn’t ban Christmas, he only banned celebrating it. It was still observed. Just as it was in Scotland but Scotland continued with that for a good couple of hundred years after England had restarted the celebrations.
You forgot the ten shilling note 😀
77 is wrong. It was revoked in the early 2000s during a review of older laws by the then labour government.
our equivalent of a constitution is precedent and custom. The closest you'll get is the Magna Carta.
shakespear did not "invent" words, merely brought largely unknown local words to public domain. he travelled a lot and must have come across many variants and unknown word usage in his time but did not just make them up out of thin air.
Shakespeare.
@@pathopewell1814 so maybe he invented the e at the end of his name 😜
@@s4ss1n Fun Fact: There was no formal way of spelling words in Tudor Times. In fact, Shakespeare himself was known to have spelt his own name up to 7 different ways. The first formalized way of spelling in Early Modern English was created by Richard Mulcaster, who published 'The first Part of the Elementarie' in 1582.
@@Jumpyman_thegamerYT is that the version that blackadder had to rewrite because the original was burned ? 😜. joking aside while i was not aware of shakespear(e)s spellings i am aware that the dictionary itself was a long way from public usage with universal agreements on actual spellings and such but i appreciate the reminders of dates i had very much forgotten 😉
It was called St.Stephens tower but was recently renamed the Queen Elizabth tower.
No it was originally called the Clock Tower, St Stephen’s Tower refers to another tower in the parliament building over the public entrance.
I have always called it the Westminster Clock Tower and will continue to do so.
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I googled that. The response given was that the formally known "Clock Tower" was originally also known as St.Steohen's Tower, but in 2012 was renamed Elizabeth Tower in honour of HM Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee. (60 years as our Monarch). 🏴❤️🖖
@@brigidsingleton1596 you need to do better than a 5 second google search, come on, don’t be one of those people who get their information from a 5 second google search, you’re going to make a fool of yourself.
If someone parrots a lie, it doesn’t make it a truth.
The idea that the Clock Tower now known as the Elizabeth Tower being once called St Stephen’s Tower is no different to calling it Big Ben, thousands of people, maybe even millions of people in the UK alone probably think the clock tower is called Big Ben, that doesn’t suddenly mean it’s true.
Like I said, St Stephen’s Tower is another tower in the parliament building which is over the public entrance to parliament.
Do yourself a favour and stop doing 5 second google searches, do proper research
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Okay. Nuff said. Just go on berating a dumb 70yo who tbh couldn't really give a tinker's cuss either way. I'm all but housebound, and just passing time with reading odd snippets here 'n' there and get things wrong sometimes...okay... So you're right. I'm wrong. You can have the bronze medal and I'll accept the 'Dusty Bin'. Satisfied? 🤔🖖
The Crown officially owns all unmarked Mute Swans, but in reality only exercises the rights over parts of the River Thames and its tributaries in the locality of Windsor.
Thank you for that - I always say "through Oxford" so getting it wrong in part, thank you for your unintended correction. 🤔😏🏴❤️🖖
The crown doesn't officially own all unmarked swans. They can CLAIM and mark any unmarked Mute swan on open water. Mute Swans are also marked and owned by the Worshipful Company of Dyers. The Vintners Company have owned Mute Swans. Since time immemorial, in the legal sense of that phrase. Meaning stretches as far back as legal memory. Fixed by statute as 1189. With the accession of Richard I.
Do a quick google on words Shakespeare introduced, many are very common today, such as addiction, bedroom, critic, manager, endless the list is amazing
A constitution is the set of principles and rules by which a country is organised and it is usually contained in one document. In the UK a constitution has never been codified in this way; instead, the various statutes, conventions, judicial decisions and treaties which, taken together, govern how the UK is run are referred to collectively as the British Constitution.
Wrong about swans it is only mute swans on the Thames that the Monarch owns. Scouse looks different from the food that was shown.
Stonehenge was built over many decades starting back 3000 BC but at that time, the landscape would be wholly different compared to now. Scientists looked at how the land in their opinions would have looked thousands of years ago and they think the rivers and water ways travelled very different paths from todays routes with much more tributories and all sorts of branches of waterways and natural channels. This would mean that the delivery of these gigantic stones would more than likely have been transported by waterways to this site in Wiltshire and not hauled hundreds of miles across what would have been treacherous terrain and probably forests etc.
At school we were taught that the stones originated in Wales, and were rolled to Wiltshire on logs. The log at the back was carried to the front once the stone had rolled over it. It's one of the few things I remember from school history lessons (probably because I'd been to Stonehenge, so could relate!), and the only history project I ever got an A+ for!
Now, whether that theory has changed since I learned about it in 1978 is a different matter. 😄
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I watched an arcgaelogical docunentary where they brought up maps they had drawn up from the period and it showed how the rivers and streams had flowed at the time and how through the ages like bronze age etc villages and people who traded would live beside these waters and how they would use them to transport wares and goods to the main areas. That is why I said though that it was their opinion on how they managed to do it.
There are two types of mince pies in the UK, one is a meat and the other is fruit based. ❤️🇬🇧
I was in the hospital A&E dept with a particularly nasty knee injury when 'Mr Guilty' was brought in accompanied by the police. when the officer had done explaining the situation, everyone within earshot of the cubicle was in absolute tears. tears of laughter mostly. nurses would tweak the curtain every now and then to see if he was ok - it was an excuse to see the pained expression of a grown man lying there, prone, with his willy trapped in his zip. for the amount of hellish agony I was in, laughing did more than the weak painkillers I was offered. this was long before 'there's something about mary' came out at the cinema. but it was funnier because the dept wasn't that big, so anything potentially hilarious coming in, everyone soon got to know about it.
Absolutely love it.
It's not a random town, it's Hay on Wye, which is world famous for being the book town! And you've already been told about it in this video! Once again, somebody spouts the rubbish about the Monarch owning all swans...The Monarch only owns the mute swans (those weren't mute swans in the video 🙄) on a certain part of the river Thames. But all swans are protected by law in this country. The badger shown was an American badger not European and hedgehogs are fun, but now as rare as tigers, in England.
Hedgehogs are fairly common but not necessarily seen as much in the UK. Tigers are definitely rare here 😂.
Hedgehogs are not fairly common, they are classified officially as in dramatic decline and in some areas, like mine have almost completely disappeared!@@emsyvaf
And the first swans with black bills always show up in these videos but are not found in the UK. They're American trumpeter swans and most emphatically do not belong to the Crown. The orange-billed mute swans are our species.
Regarding the Mute Swans which reside / swim on the part of the river 'Thames'... That part of the Thames is known as the 'Isis' - where it flows through Oxford. I'm sure _you_ know it and were just, perhaps saving yourself from possible YT disapproval for that word, which these days often has nefarious connotations, but is, in this case, just the name of part of a river named after the Egyptian Goddess (though, I've no idea why, but I suspect _you_ are far more knowledgeable on these matters than I).
I have tried on other occasions to impart this particular (& other) piece of information to Tyler, but I'm really not sure whether or not he actually reads / absorbs anything much other than a few rare moments when he 'latches on' to certain snippets which for reasons unknown to me, at least, catch his imagination!! He does seem to recall _some_ 'facts', but also seems to 'forget' a lot, which may, or may not be just some form of attention-grabbing in order to receive more comments, whether or not they're pleasantly-worded or filled with scorn, or, additionally informative (?!)
Sorry... I seem to have 'caught' 'Tyler-itis' as an "rambling" again (also, like Steve, from "Reacting To My Roots" -
sorry Steve!)😏😊 🇬🇧🤔❤️🏴🖖
@brigidsingleton1596 We keep meeting on line - I'm another Brigid! Yes,I am familiar with the Isis as I went to Oxford. One theory appears to be that the Romans' name for the river, Tamesis, was somehow a compound word including the element Isis. Seems highly improbable to me, but Roman place-names in England are fairly odd and probably include elements from native names. I refuse to avoid using an ancient place-name which means the Queen of the gods of Egypt and a river in England, just because an acronym from a later period means a terrorist movement. Ira is a respected Jewish name as well as an Irish terrorist group. Coincidences happen and do not matter, usually.
Even though it’s technically Elizabeth Tower, most Brits call it Big Ben anyway
Yes, although Big Ben was originally the name of the largest bell, the tower itself was called the Clock Tower until the late Queen's Diamond Jubilee, when it was renamed The Elizabeth Tower. I expect most of us Brits will still call the tower Big Ben though... 😄
Big Ben is the biggest of many bells, it's the one that strikes the hour so people used to say they set their watch by Big Ben and it was played live on the radio so people could synchronize their time pieces, so that's why so many people think the tower is called Big Ben, or even the clock itself.
When I studied law I learned that we apply the law as precedence. You can look up previous cases and how they were decided and determine the highest court that the case was heard by. All of these cases are in a book called Hansard of which there are many volumes by year.
Hansard is the written daily record of Parliament and what was said and happened, Legal judgements will be recorded if mentioned in Parliament but are just indexed if not. All Laws, past (often in Latin) and present, forming the UK constitution, are hand written on Parchment and stored in the Victoria Tower, you must have learnt that in your Law studies.
@@tonys1636 Possibly but it’s been almost twenty years since I graduated.
@@shelleyjackson8793 A 5th form school visit to the Palace of Westminster in the 60's has stuck forever, a very informative guided tour by a Palace custodian including a climb up the Victoria Tower and being shown some of the law parchments although I was able to read and speak Latin (badly) the copperplate handwriting was almost illegible to me.
The "Shakespeare introduced thousands of words" mostly means that his writing is the earliest recording of them preserved today. Most words was probably used before that, only not written down somewhere where we can see them now.
It's not just Norfolk that call wasps Jaspers, I'm from the Isle of Wight and we used to call them that as well. A copy of every book published in the UK must legally be in the British Library as it is a copyright library.
The commonwealth also includes some nations who were never part of the empire
I guess i will keep commenting anyway because i enjoy reading what everybody says....sometimes it's informative and other times it's hilarious! Thank you everybody.😊
Happy New Year!
Your reel should be called 'Facts about England'. Scotland has their own NHS. Also, look up the Calanish Stones and the standing stones of Scotland
Definitely, there’s very little about Scotland, next to nothing about Wales and was Northern Ireland even mentioned?
I don't suppose Shakespeare invented all those words, he may have heard them spoken by people who could not read and write.
Ah jeez - the 2nd-best bed? What isn't explained, but which historians everywhere understand, is that the best bed was reserved for visitors. The 2nd best bed was the marital bed.The bed where babies were conceived and born, the only measure of privacy a couple had to be able to make plans and talk nonsense...an extremely private refuge. Shakespeare's wife was very well provided for and the family home became hers. Putting that totally unnecessary line in his will was actually a declaration to both family & friends of his feeling ♥ : a public & nostalgic mention of his married life for those who doubted his feelings for family life. Instead of a laugh, a bit of an "Awwww." fits in there.
Glad someone below explained that unlike the conclusion you came to, people didn't all stop speaking English for 300 years & then suddenly change back into English! I know you've come across The Battle of Hastings in 1066 when William of Normandy defeated Harold and became King of England. Normandy is part of France - so William and his Court all spoke Norman French. Latin was the formal language in which people made laws, connected to other Royals in different countries, and held all religious services until the mid-20thC. Norman French was the language only of the Court...so this didn't effect the locals and the English language continued to grow down through all the centuries...and over time it swallowed up various words: colour, buoys... - actually, just about all the words that Americans tell us we are spelling incorrectly!😂😂
Oh...and the King doesn't own all the swans . He's responsible for a certain type of swan in a certain area. These are looked after, counted & bred (and sometimes need doctoring)by their own special keepers on behalf of the crown.
Technically the "lions" on the football shirts are actually leopards (a mythical creature which is part lion, part pard - the latter now known as the leopard. I know, its confusing.) Lions in heraldry stand upright like the Peugeot logo, you see them on passports opposite the Scottish unicorn.
I'm Canadian and always known it as big ben
Foxes are everywhere in England.
Just a tip, "London Tube" sounds wrong to us native Brits, it's either "The Tube" or "The London Underground"
I baulk at hearing other USA reactors refer to the Thames as the Thames River…. Noooooo…. It’s the River Thames! The word River should always be said first……
Most British people don't know that Big Ben is the bell, not the tower. In conversation, we generally refer to the whole tower, bell and everything as Big Ben.
The Big Ben bell was named, I think, after the architect or designer, or Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli? Only swans on the river Thames belong to the Monarch. They used to be served up at banquets, only the Royals were permitted swans. Now just about all birds are protected by law in the UK , as are wild animals. The Puritans like Cromwell disapproved of all sorts of enjoyment, including banning Christmas & other festivities. The UK does note have a single document constitution, but all laws etc are written down. After Elizabeth's death King James of Scotland became King of England too. James is Jacobus in Latin, hence the Jacobean age followed the Elizabethan. Most of Shakespeare's 'new' words in English were taken from Latin, so not entirely new. He means names of new born in recent times, Gary was more popular 50 or so years ago. The furniture in Shakespeare's will meant the stuff that belonged with the bed, that is the posts, covers & curtains. She likely already had the house & all the other stuff that had been his.
A reliable supply of white swans feather plumes is required for certain military and ceremonial uniforms, that's all. They don't eat them.
Visit the UK. It should be easy to get accommodation with some of the viewers. You could plan to visit the 4 countries
You need to watch a documentary series called the British. It will give you lots of history between the roman invasion and the coronation of queen elizabeth the 2nd
Fact 102:-
Cadbury was quick to support the war effort however possible, so the Bournville factory was put to use for the greater good of the country.
During the First World War, the firm's milk supply was diverted to the people of Birmingham, factories were used to make dried veg and fruit pulp, and buildings were turned into hospitals.
When World War II broke out, the Bournville factory turned to making gun doors for Spitfires, cases for aeroplane flares, aircraft parts, gas masks and jerrycans.
In 1935, the Cadbury family founded the Cadbury Foundation, as a tribute to the brothers and to carry on their work.
The foundation is still inspired by them today, supporting colleagues and the community.
Volunteering, funding, helping local schools, charities, people and businesses.
Just as it ever was, it’s important to everyone at Cadbury to play their part.
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Probably the most dangerous animal here in the uk is the goose 😂
Also if you ever want to visit the uk and don’t want to be stuck in London, York is an absolutely beautiful city with possibly the most history in the entire country!
Londinium was the Roman name for London, Lundenwic the Viking name…but I’m not sure about Ludenburg.
Nah, Swans by far. Nasty little fuckers!
Don't break your arm though.
5:20 Elizabeth Tower, it's official name.
The 3 Lions... Whilst Henry I had a lion on his crest, it was Richard I (The Lion Heart) who introduced the 3 Lions.
There's quite a number of inaccurate "facts" in this 101 list.
Plus, they are leopards, not lions (even if they do now look like lions).
They are LEOPARDS!
The swan bit is slightly misleading. Only the mute swans belong to the crown. The others are fair game.
I think it's wrong that the Queen/King owns ALL the swans in the UK. I think it's the mute swans on a stretch of the Thames, and I think it's not ALL of those as there are "livery companies" (think guilds) who own swans and those marked (by nicks on their bills). There is an annual ceremony called "Swan Upping" - a sort of census and health check for the swans.
King Charles owns the mute swans on just a stretch of the river. Each year the swan master gathers people to catch, weigh and measure the mute swans. They then get a loose ring around their ankles with their own unique number.
The tower is called Elizabeth Tower but most brits also just call the whole.thing big Ben even though that's not correct
The tower contain Big Ben was originally named St. Stephen's Tower was re-named The Elizabeth Tower in 2012 in honour of Queen Elizabeth II Diamond jubilee
Iv driven past stone henge soooo many times.I also saw a documentary a few years back where they actually looked at the tools of the time & attempted to build a replica of stone henge (move giant stones and place them) & succeeded. So we do know how it was built but not why or what it was for.
Correction: What they think was the tech of the time. We have no concrete evidence of what was actually used in those periods in England simply cause it was too long ago.
Its also not a circle.
Plus, when it was built, this probably wasnt "England"
@@Diablo_Himself Well obviously cause countries didn't exist in general until Denmark became the first one.
Actually, Iran or Egypt is the oldest country in the world.
The tower that Big Ben is heard Tolling from was simply known as “The Clock Tower” until 2012, is now called “The Queen Elizabeth Tower”, renamed for Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee, it was also called “Victoria Tower”, after Queen Victoria for her Diamond Jubilee,
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The UK does have a written constitution. When I was at university, the law library had on its shelves copies of the constitutions of every country, and there was not a gap for the UK. What the UK does not have is a codified constitution so it is contained in a range of documents from the few elements of the Magna Carta still in place through to the legislation setting how frequently general elections should be held.
Big Ben -- not so big
A naked Tyler knows the feeling all too well.
Fact 103:-
In countries not part of the British Empire, the tune of "God Save the King" has provided the basis for various patriotic songs, though still generally connected with royal ceremony.
The melody continues to be used for the national anthem of Liechtenstein, "Oben am jungen Rhein", and the royal anthem of Norway, "Kongesangen".
The melody is used for the American patriotic song "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" (also known as "America").
The melody was also used for the national anthem "Heil dir im Siegerkranz" ("Hail to thee in the Victor's Crown") of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1795 and of the German Empire from 1871 to 1918 and as "The Prayer of Russians", the imperial anthem of Russia from 1816 to 1833.
In Switzerland, it is known as "Rufst du, mein Vaterland".
Beyond its first verse, which is consistent, "God Save the King" has many historic and extant versions.
Since its first publication, different verses have been added and taken away and, even today, different publications include various selections of verses in various orders.
In general, only one verse is sung.
Sometimes two verses are sung and, on certain occasions, three.
The entire composition is the musical salute for the monarch and royal consort, while other members of the royal family who are entitled to royal salute (such as the Prince of Wales, along with his spouse) receive just the first six bars.
The first six bars also form all or part of the viceregal salute in some Commonwealth realms other than the UK (e.g., in Canada, governors general and lieutenant governors at official events are saluted with the first six bars of "God Save the King" followed by the first four and last four bars of "O Canada"), as well as the salute given to governors of British overseas territories.
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Think which part of your body you'd least like to get caught in a zip, Tyler... Yes, the skin on it. That's your commonest zip injuries. "Foreign Objects" requiring removal are also very common, apparently!
The Crown doesn't own all the swans.
So, you think Pocahontas became known to Americans only via a 1994 heavily fictionalized Disney movie?
The Elizabeth Tower was officially just known as The Clocktower until 2012 .
Someone recently referred to it as St. Stephen's Tower in a comments section but this was news to me !
I believe it was called St. Stephen's Tower before it was Elizabeth Tower.
@@DavidGloyne-vf9sv I did have a look online and couldn't find St Stephen's mentioned tbh. Every source I found claims until 2012 it was referred to as "The Clocktower" so maybe "St Stephen's" was a name known to locals , rather than the official name .
Fun Fact: Before 2003 (Euro) we had the Schilling (Just different written) in Austria.oh oh..i am an Anglophile. They got good Stuff and Style..beside old Monuments,funny dry Humor and Tea and Scones. And the most famous unreal Detektiv ..Sherlock Holmes. (Wow..i need a Dictionary for all the british Words, Phrases and Sayings they have, which we don't get..sorry but it is like an unofficial Language.)
About English pies....watch Sweeney Todd. :D
It is untrue that all the swans belong to the Crown. It is only swans on parts of the RiverThames that are.
The best bed was probably kept for guests. The second-best bed was probably slept in by the married couple.
Norfolk is a place you should visit if you go to the UK. The Norfolk Broads is one of the largest nature reserves in the whole of the UK.
"Before we had the pound sterling..." WRONG! Before decimalisation we already had the pound sterling. This did not change! It was the way that the pound was subdivided that changed, not the actual pound!
The Swan fact is famously incorrect. The Monarch owns all the un-ringed mute swans on a certain stretch of the River Thames. All the other s are free birds!
There are quite a few 'Gary's' of middle age and beyond - but in my nearly 40 years as an infant school teacher, I only ever came across one child called Gary.
Shakespeare leaving his second best bed to hs wife - it's not that weird. A bed was a pretty substantial piece of furniture, and probably one of the most valuable things in the house. I presume the best bed went to one of his children, who would have been his main heirs.
Some of Shakespeares 'new words' will have been made up by him, but for many of them it's just a case of his plays being the first time they have been recorded as being used.
Random fact, the clock face of Big Ben was made by a watchmakers called Dent of London, the company was established in 1814
19:19 "Meyekelendshelo" 🤣🤣🤣
Ryan is Tyler’s brother? I didn’t know that. Ryan is open in his rudeness, he said once I quote “Tyler is my bane”. I thought “whaat”? I don’t understand. Tyler is just a closet rude boy. 😂 They are both cheeky chaps. I like them.
😊 I seem to recall Tyler saying that Ryan was his "twin brother" (am I correct ?!) and for a few reactions, they both appeared together at Ryan's house...
I wish they'd do more of those shared videos as it helps make life even more interesting to see their _combined_ reactions!! 😊 🤔🏴❤️🖖
Ryan and Tyler are identical twins.
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I wondered about that (...though, Ryan's eyes are _very_ blue, and Tyler's eyes seem darker?) I have fraternal twins and their eye colours are slightly different. Mind you, they're also sister and brother, my daughter is shorter, and heavier, her brother's 6' tall "and like a matchstick with 'some' wood shaved off"!!😏🥺🤔🏴🧡💙🇬🇧🙂🖖
@@brigidsingleton1596 Yes they are twins
@@jillybrooke29 .. but, _not_ identical?
Elizabeth Tower formerly known as St Stephen's tower🎩
I like how you said trousers and not pants, well done Tyler
Back in his day the best bed was for guest that's why Shakespeare left the second. Best bed
Some ex-colonies of Britain did not want to be members of the Commonwealth. Some others, which had never been colonies, applied to join.
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We just call it Big Ben because its not the building thats gets struck its the bell.
You don’t hear the Elizabeth tower you hear Big Ben
20:30 It means he was the first person to put the words into writing, in a document which survived to the present day. So people may have been using them & writing them elsewhere, but those were all lost. The OED credits the earliest known written use of the word.
My slippers once hurt me, I had to regrow my toenail back. It is how they slide when I walk the stairs up and sometimes I want to go faster and then stumble and that's how I split my nail, an my toe hurt like heck.
We spoke French because William the conqueror invaded from France in 1066. I believe it was mainly the capital London that used it,
they fine tune the clock constantly with pennies as weight to keep it spot on.
With regards to wild life, there's also bats wich weren't mentioned
We do have a constitution - it is just not codified into a single document and instead has evolved over the past thousand years through various sources, like through Acts of Parliament, but also through the doctrine of precedent, and through principles and norms. There are actually a lot of positives to not having a codified constitution, without many of the negatives (i.e. being unable to change stupid, antiquated laws without super-majority like U.S). Antithetical though it may sound, but it works very well for the UK and UK democracy, which is, of course, the birthplace of common law - the system the US (except Louisiana), Canada (except Quebec), India, etc, have all adopted.
Eastenders has been running since 1985 with nearly 7000 episodes
Have to stop there before going any further into your video : that 8 mile per hour speeding ticket is simply hilarious nowadays. Thank you for always coming up with informative videos which are often very funny !!!!
How many people these days drive 4 times the speed limit...?
8 MPH, he was proper belting along....haha. Could walk faster.
We still tend to call it Big Ben. Partially (I think) because every time the whole country is looking at it it's because they are waiting for it to strike, therefore waiting for the bell to strike. For example on New Year the various TV channels will switch to looking at Big Ben waiting for it to strike Midnight, or during Remembrance Day the strike of Big Ben tells you when the 2 minute silence starts and ends. Just a theory of mine, but it makes sense to me, whenever we are looking at the tower as a nation it's because we are waiting for the bell to strike.
11:17 The National Anthem caught me off guard and I love it
The commonwealth is quite a big deal, 5-6 years ago, USA was in discussions about joining us
No, the monarch does not own all the swans in the UK. Only the ones on the Thames up to around Henley. There are many features of Stonehenge which are even more amazing, for example the large upright stones have the tops carved so that there are upstanding lumps which match carved depressions on the header stones to align them. Also, the header stones are exactly level, which is incredible given the primitive tools used at the time. The circle has cosmological functions, the main one being that certain stones align on the Winter solstice in order to see the sun at its lowest point in the Northern Hemisphere and also to show that the sun was once again increasing in height to show that it was still alive and not dying permanently. There is evidence of partying and worship at the nearby Durrington Walls another ancient site, animal bones such as pigs have been unearthed by archaeologists which came from as far North as the Orkney Isles off Scotland and apparently slaughtered and eaten as part of the celebrations.
The second best bed was not an unusual for Shakespeare to bequeath his wife. The best bed was usually reserved for guests, to show how well you were doing, and was traditionally handed down the generations as a heirloom. The second best bed, still an r pensive item, is likely to have been the marital bed.
It’s unlikely that Shakespeare created all those words. It’s just that he is the earliest recorded examples of those words. The idea that he wrote plays using words that nobody in the audience would understand is just silly. It’s more likely that the words were in common use already, but no older writer examples have survived the ravages of time.
I think Anglophile is usually reserved for those not of British decent that love England/Britain. My American wife is an Anglophile, which worked very much to my advantage during courtship 😂😁
I've been telling people for years.. that the tower isn't big ben. It's the Bell inside the tower🤦.
Ryan and Tyler are twins and yes there was no tv so Shakespeare wrote all those plays and lots of people did painting cos they were no cameras, amazing, eh? Oh and reading too if you were schooled.
The second best bed would have been the one he and his wife shared. The best would be for guests.
I'm from the UK and the word constitution to me is synonymous with "the law in America". Not even really sure what one is or of we have one or not
This is an extract from a Supreme Court ruling in the UK you may find a little interesting on the constitution of the UK 62. Where does this leave the constitutional position which I have stated? Mr Shrimpton would say that Factortame (No 1) was wrongly decided; and since the point was not argued, there is scope, within the limits of our law of precedent, to depart from it and to hold that implied repeal may bite on the ECA as readily as upon any other statute. I think that would be a wrong turning. My reasons are these. In the present state of its maturity the common law has come to recognise that there exist rights which should properly be classified as constitutional or fundamental: see for example such cases as Simms [2000] 2 AC 115 per Lord Hoffmann at 131, Pierson v Secretary of State [1998] AC 539, Leech [1994] QB 198, Derbyshire County Council v Times Newspapers Ltd. [1993] AC 534, and Witham [1998] QB 575. And from this a further insight follows. We should recognise a hierarchy of Acts of Parliament: as it were "ordinary" statutes and "constitutional" statutes. The two categories must be distinguished on a principled basis. In my opinion a constitutional statute is one which (a) conditions the legal relationship between citizen and State in some general, overarching manner, or (b) enlarges or diminishes the scope of what we would now regard as fundamental constitutional rights. (a) and (b) are of necessity closely related: it is difficult to think of an instance of (a) that is not also an instance of (b). The special status of constitutional statutes follows the special status of constitutional rights. Examples are the Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights 1689, the Act of Union, the Reform Acts which distributed and enlarged the franchise, the HRA, the Scotland Act 1998 and the Government of Wales Act 1998. The ECA clearly belongs in this family. It incorporated the whole corpus of substantive Community rights and obligations, and gave overriding domestic effect to the judicial and administrative machinery of Community law. It may be there has never been a statute having such profound effects on so many dimensions of our daily lives. The ECA is, by force of the common law, a constitutional statute. 63. Ordinary statutes may be impliedly repealed. Constitutional statutes may not. For the repeal of a constitutional Act or the abrogation of a fundamental right to be effected by statute, the court would apply this test: is it shown that the legislature's actual - not imputed, constructive or presumed - intention was to effect the repeal or abrogation? I think the test could only be met by express words in the later statute, or by words so specific that the inference of an actual determination to effect the result contended for was irresistible. The ordinary rule of implied repeal does not satisfy this test. Accordingly, it has no application to constitutional statutes. I should add that in my judgment general words could not be supplemented, so as to effect a repeal or significant amendment to a constitutional statute, by reference to what was said in Parliament by the minister promoting the Bill pursuant to Pepper v Hart [1993] AC 593. A constitutional statute can only be repealed, or amended in a way which significantly affects its provisions touching fundamental rights or otherwise the relation between citizen and State, by unambiguous words on the face of the later statute.
Many people in the UK think Big Ben is the bell, too
Following the Norman invasion in 1066 French became the official language. However, that doesn't mean that everyone spoke it. I merely means that the legal profession and rulers used as they were mostly French Normans and Angevins (e.g. Richard the Lionheart was a Plantagenet, an Angevin king from the Anjou region of France), most of the population still spoke Middle English (which the Anglo-Saxons brought to teh country and was based on High German originally but had evolved since their invasion/settlement.
Lol i really enjoyed those 3 parts. Great reactions 🤣 👍
Oliver Cromwell abolished Christmas.
The Shakespeare thing has always fascinated me. I used to know a few of his words. We did them in school here in Denmark. But that's so long ago that i only remember Brilliant right now... Would be Brylliant im sure but yeah.. Good stuff Will. 😊