21 Things Brits HATE About Americans | Responding to Hate Comments From the UK 🇬🇧⚔🇺🇸
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Do you hate how Americans say "herb" or "soccer"? Today we're addressing 21 things that British people HATE about Americans! And we're covering a wide variety of issues, from how Americans write dates to why we can't seem to stop remaking British TV shows. 😄 If it grinds your gears when Yanks say "fall" or assume that all Brits talk like the Queen, then you'll love this video!
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WHY WE MADE THIS VIDEO: We get comments (like the tweets in the video) every single day in our comment sections and so this video is an excuse for us to take the piss out of people who post angry and ill-informed rants. 😁🥂 If you're going to leave hate in our comment sections, at least make sure it's historically accurate 😉
A muffin here in the UK is exactly the same as a US muffin. The American biscuit looks more like a cheese scone.
I hate how the US military is the largest socialist employer in the world but they keep thinking they don't have socialism they - and when you combine that with how over the top nationalist they are and how military dominance on a global level is the country's number one goal, it's very obvious that national socialism is the ruling political force (through fascism) across America and the public don't really seem to care.
Q. Did you think any of these posts wouldn't contain the word 'hate'? You seem to be overtly shocked. (Stops to type as the fat bastard comment came on lol)
Never heard the word soccer until after American football became known here in the 80s. That's when the word seemed to appear.
I'm a survey carried out in New York in 1912 only 5% of French immigrants had considered themselves as French, preferring to identify as belonging to the city, t own or village they were from. After WWI this rose to 85% as the military propaganda machine needed people to identify as the nation they were from because they kept refusing to die for rich people in power and something had to change. Nationalism was born and was exploited by the likes of Prescott Bush (Rep. Sen) when he (and others) started to fund the nazis in Germany. Lost his bank, his steel empire and assets for trading with the enemy, found guilty if treason in the 1930s for a failed attempts at a fascist coup and went on to be the father and grandfather of the two Bush presidents.
Did any Americans reading this know of this?
The date problem annoys me in particular. My birthday is on 8/8 and NOT on 8/8!😉
😂
Good one.
Stop confusing me! Which one is it?!
Aye birthday twin 8/8 🦁
@@Lg3-Snow 😁
If you ever do meet a Welsh person, just act calm - you'll be fine.
Not true! Their vision is based on movement........🤣
@@danielmartin5632 Remember they can smell if you're English though. You can only mask the scent by covering yourself in coal.
toss them a sheep if they are male and you can walk on by without issue
The Taffs are fine.
My north eastern English vision is based of who is carrying the rugby ball
"America and the UK are two nations separated by a common language."
Separated? That makes no sense. United would make sense
@@Wankle. The known phrase uses separated.
@@10thdoctor15 strange do you get what mean tho ? How can people be separated by the same language. Some one will have to explain this
@@Wankle. Because it is the same letters and words (mostly), but there is so much that is different, there is so much confusion.
@@10thdoctor15 oh I don’t find it confusing honestly but I get it now thanks ahah
as an American southern woman I have to say to those brits, or anyone including Americans, who want to tell us southerners how to talk..bless your little heart.. :) lol
As a native Missourian..(almost..but not quite Southern..I might be an 'honorary mention')..I know what a true southerner means with that phrase. It's a polite manner of telling someone to 'go to hell' in a manner in which they actually look forward to the trip!
Bless you luv.. Really.
Ha, Ha. Love this response. As an American, from a northern state (MN), I know what "bless your heart" really means in southern America: "F*** you!" Just thought I would interpret that to our empathetically challenged European friends.
Why do we hate it when you do British accents? Simple: Dick Van Dyke
Microdunce Chris Pratt on Graham Norton totally aced the Essex girl accent! Some do it brilliantly.
Gotta admit he did. Wonder how much practice he did for it though 😂😂
Understandable. I think some Americans get annoyed when others try American accents because they typical try Southern or "cowboy" accents, and they grossly overdo them. Maybe it's the same scenario.
John Alden I only get really annoyed with bad American accents when it’s clear the imitator is being condescending. Then my brain just screams F you.
@@pjschmid2251 You got it. Exactly right.
Just so you know, when we say 'hate', we seldom mean hate. Offensive language in general is often not meant offensively
That is sooo fucking true.
I hate that you're so right, Michael.
@Daryl Sledge
No, petty would be criticizing an entire country, no, multiple countries, based on what you consider 'idiosyncrasies', just because you dont understand them, nevermind suggesting that America is somehow important enough that anybody should change how they use their language just so you guys 'accept' us.
Petty would also be me calling you a pathetic idiot. Woops! I guess I am petty.
@Daryl Sledge - I think sarcasm is bred into us from a very early age. If a Brit migrates to other countries (e.g. Australia, as we did) you can get yourself in a lot of trouble with sarcasm and/or deadpan delivery. You can get taken seriously and that isn't a good way to endear yourself to your adopted countrymen. However, it is very hard to stop because it comes so naturally to us.
@Daryl Sledge Lol I'm not changing my style of sarcasm just to please a few americans. And I would rather be known as living in a petty country than living in a backwards racist country.
Love how you guys were on one during this! Love it!
Love history and learning stuff so thanks for teaching me something new. Stay safe guys :)
I just stumbled upon this video. I loved it. You two are amazing in your thoughts and views. I loved how you both were able to back some of the negative comments up with real facts - Kudos to you for that! As you were wrapping it up and said there were some really petty comments people submitted and ridiculous reasons for hating on Americans, I couldn't agree more. Hating us for some of these things is really sad. I am looking forward to watching more of your videos! Thanks for the entertainment. Happy travels and keep safe!!!
Your big mistake was taking 'BuzzFeed' seriously. Promise me that you will never ever watch that inferior and inaccurate channel ever again.
You have our word of honour, Alan 😂
Also I feel like the British sarcasm did not come across great in those tweets lol 😂
We sometimes forget online text doesn't translate sarcasm lol 😂
Xdddd
The joke's on them?
The cnts thing was funny.
Cnts = Cunts
@Mel Bauer C'mon, 11/9 was funny.
@Mel Bauer u clearly don't understand british culture and humour
I've been mulling this over all day and I have some thoughts! First of all I'd like to say I've been loving your videos as a Brit and really appreciate the love you have for our country and your enthusiasm to understand! We definitely need to learn more about each other culturally as we become a more connected world and global community!
I'd say you're being rightly defensive towards those comments that say 'i hate it when Americans x' because those people are just spouting raw feelings without taking a moment to consider WHY they feel the way they do!
I can tell you it's no personal comment on you as an individual but more directed at America as a whole. You may have come to realise this but American culture had a far more pervasive influence on not just British but global culture as the reverse must have. Sure, America is a country of immigration and a melting pot of many colourful backgrounds I'd agree, but not in the way that a single cohesive culture has had on the rest of the world as a whole. British people watch American TV, eat American food, use American products, wear American fashions, watch American movies and the list goes on and on, but can you say the same in reverse for any one country in that kind of volume? I know people within my own generation (age 25-35) who are far more interested and absorbed in American culture and at times it feels as though we are watching our identities fade away in the wake of something more powerful as people prefer to conform to what they perceive as 'normal'. Sounds extreme I know but this is why I'm so happy that you are such massive Anglophiles as we have such a rich and historic culture that I want to help preserve!
There really is so much to learn and the more we talk about it the better! 🤗
Oh I definitely consider myself an Anglophile
I loved your response and I gave you a thumbs up. But please consider this: you said "so happy that you are such massive Anglophiles". OK, how do you think it feels when we hear "I hate Americans"?
Nice look into the petty grievances many of us have here in the UK - one thing I would point out is even here using the word "pants" for underwear instead of trousers isn't all over the country. In some areas here in the north we would use trousers or pants more or less interchangeably, much to the confusion of our brethren from other regions of England.
I think the British are sensitive to accents because we have long used this for indentifing social status.
Spellings and dialects too...
Yes David, although Americans often do the accents badly, I was wondering too whether part of the discomfort was because of the status implied. It's quite interesting.
Omg social status! I live in the West Country, where a lot of Londoners have their second home, and I have my one and only home, accents are wonderful and mean nothing, just makes us diverse and colourful.
@@louiselane806 dream on.
David Marsden in what respect should I dream on? Where do you live?
We do pronounce the 'H' in 'Herbivore'.
Oh! We didn't know that!
I take your point that we pronounce heir as air but I can't think of any other silent hs in our tongue. It's not like in America they say Otel instead of Hotel or Ollywood rather than Hollywood. Both versions of the language are inconsistent.
I think the flavour and colour thing annoys Brits because you still pronounce it colour not col-or. Standardising (or standardizing) never truly works because huge variation in accent. It seems peculiar that Webster felt the need to rewrite an already existing standardised language. Yearning for American independence from the British perhaps.
Theinternalrewrite how about hour, honor, honest. Oh, and I’m an American and I don’t pronounce the H in herbivore. I don’t know if @aucourant an American or British.
@@Theinternalrewrite It used to be a fashion in Britain among a certain set, the dandies (think metrosexual/hipster), to drop Hs, presumably to sound "continental". When these guys went out of fashion, people in Britain overcompensated and started adding the "H" sound where it had never been before.
Americans do not pronounce color as colour. In that instance colour would rhyme with velour, not succor.
Language standardization was a thing in Britain as well. Continental Europeans complain that English has not undergone the level of standardization that many of their languages have.
@@Theinternalrewrite YEP...TYPICAL PRICK.....GRANNY,EGGS SUCKING.....
I have never heard the word "zeitgeist" before, but from the spelling I'd say it the same way you do.
It is pronounced the same in USA and UK.
@@gavinreid5387 That could possibly be because it's a German word, d'you think? 😏
There is just one way to pronounce it: /ˈtsaɪtɡaɪst/
Yeah, it's a German word dude
The only zeitgeist I know is Phoebe Zeitgeist, a cartoon character in the Evergreen Review.
Hey guys found your vids recently and I LOVE LOVE LOVE them - I hope your lockdown situation is going ok. I'm English born and bred and it's been a really lovely way of seeing people travelling and looking at this country from an outsiders perspective - and with such kindness and balanced opinions. Sorry you come across such silly comments like "hey why you Americans say stuff funny" - especially when they start with "I hate ..... because..." Eventually social media will hopefully catch up with general good manners to other human beings....wishing you all the best on your continued travels, insights and journeys. 😀
People like you are the reason I love to travel to the UK! I try to just ignore the rest of them.
That was hilarious!! 😂 Come on fellow Brits, we cant criticise ANYONE else for pronunciation of certain words with all the regional accents and slang words we have (I certainly cant criticise anyone with my strong Yorkshire accent). Keep the the vids coming guys - these are keeping me sane during the lockdown. Stay safe everyone! 👍
We appreciate you! And we definitely understand that these tweets represent a tiny, tiny minority of British people :D Thank you for watching and we promise to keep the videos rolling (for your sanity and ours) 😂
@@WanderingRavens Cheers! 👍😁 Question for you, which as Americans you may be able to answer - Where does the term 'Going the whole nine yards' come from? does it derive from baseball? or is it from American Airmen in WW2, specifically gunners on B-17's who had '9 yards' of ammunition. I'm sure somebody out there knows the answer! And do you have the phrase 'Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey' in the States? I do know where that one comes from btw... already looking forward to your next vid... 👍😁🏴🇺🇸
Fun fact: Both butcher Zeitgeist in an almost unbearable way.
@@roynishapati8426 the etymology is not known? I looked it up. If your asking what it means, it means to give 100% effort!
@@WanderingRavens very sorry for this comment but this video makes us feel bad as a random person just said it now every hates us thanks a lot wandering ravens !
I have been fortunate to meet many Americans and I have to say any preconceptions I may have had have been proved totally false. I find Americans to be warm, generous, empathetic and fun. My dad told me some stories of the American's in the 82nd airborne division that he became friends with prior to D Day and I've found them to be the same. Dad passed away last year at the ripe old age of 95 and I have his military stuff and in it is an 82nd airborne insignia and soft cap. I'll treasure them forever.
I'm pretty sure everyone also thinks that Americans are really friendly.
Was your Dad a Para? I was a US Army paratrooper. Got British wings over there, The balloon jump was...different. Your Father must have been a fine man. The conduct of the British people in that war was magnificent and remains an inspiration.
@@martinreddy3823 Hi Martin my dad was in the 3rd battalion of the parachute regiment. He was 20 when he parachuted into Normandy. He worked down the coal mines from the age of 14 and was an amateur boxer. He came from poverty but enjoyed the army. He fought through the war and was wounded at Arnhem. by 1945 he had been promoted to sergeant and was tasked with protecting the first medics and doctors into Belson concentration camp. His army career finished in about 1949 in Palestine where he was on peace keeping duties trying to stop the slaughter of Jews and Arabs.
@@johnf3885 Tried to reply. Lost it. Sorry if this is a repetition. I salute your father. He certainly did not miss anything. Normandy...Arnhem. Rough. Belsen must have been a terrible experience. As a senior NCO he would have been key in a humanitarian effort of Biblical proportions. I have read how the British Army struggled to keep survivors alive in the midst of a typhus epidemic (was it typhus? or am I mistaken?) Palestine must have been a thankless duty. As a young paratrooper (1st Bn, 504th PIR, 82d Abn Div) I "ate up" WWII history, especially Airborne. I always feel for the Paras at Arnhem/Oosterbeek, whom I admire for their determination and tenacity. Blunders in war are truly tragic. The Allies underestimated the Germans, and their ability to make the most of what resources they had. The 82d was not able to secure their objectives in time for XXX Corps to punch through. My father's older brother was in a B-17 crew in the 8th Air Force, and made it through with minor blighties. My father was too young for WWII, but just right for Korea. I caught the next war, and my younger daughter was in Iraq. Very good to hear from you.
@@t.7952 yes true !
Exactly! It’s all about understanding - if you say the word which is most likely to be understood in the company you’re in, then you’re good 👍🏻 and if not, it’s a good learning opportunity and talking point!
At least Americans can pronounce the "H" in hate so it's not confused that we "ate" something 🤣
Herbs.
@@marny3559 Nice, but the title says HATE not herbs.
@@mikelovin7 erbs
I think 90% of the world hate the word "so**er"
Yeah
@@henryhill7932 Yes
Definately not just a British thing. I think every other country in the world calls it "football". Just their own version of the word. Futbol (Spanish). Fussball (with that German double s symbol). Futebol (Portuguese). Though I'm sure there are exceptions.
No problem. You guys call it what you like. I call it watching paint dry. Any sport that can end in a 0-0 tie is by definition pointless. And what is the logic of disallowing people from using arms and hands to move a ball around a large field? It's like making people compete in track and field but only allowing handstands.
@@johnalden5821 just curious, which sports do you find interesting, if any?
Genuine - pronounced genuin
route - pronounced root
from someone who’s lived in the UK their whole life
Thank you for answering our question! :D
A very similar word that I hear people mispronounce here in the UK is the word "router", when referring to the power tool.
When referring to the thing that handles your internet connection it is pronounced "rooter", but the tool for cutting grooves etc should be a "rowter" because it comes from the word "rout" not "route".
We have a few route words
Route (roo...) as in journey
Rout (row..) as in a complete victory
Router (roo...) as in internet connection
Router (row...) as in cutting wood
However I say Root for the Route to a destination but Rowt - Route for working grooves and recesses in wood the special machine for doing this is called a Router (Rowter)
Very true my brother.
Man most people who have arguments on how words are pronounced usually just argue about which one sounds correct, these guys actually tell facts about certain words and where they originated from, underrated channel, you people know your shit
Yes!! I love regional variations in language! If you want an alternative to calling people “Love”, “Pet” is a good one too ☺️
Warning: Don't call an American woman a "Pet"
@@mnpipi3329 it’s not “a” pet, and why not? 😅
Think you missed the British sarcastic humour in the rudeness of a couple of those comments, also it’s common for us to say hate when meaning mildly annoyed, but definitely some pettiness going on there!
The only thing I ‘hate’ is having to explain why we don’t have switches or plugs in the bathroom to virtually every American I’ve spent time with ..... heads up, it’s because water, steam dripping down walls, wet hands and electricity don’t mix especially as we have 240v system here rather than 110v in America.
Keep up the good work x
Code here in the States is to have GFCI outlets near water sources which prevent shock if contact with water is made or any "imbalance in current is detected. Yes, we run 110v but they're also available for 220v.
@@susannortham11.11 In the UK most of our main power circuits are "ring" not radial as generally used in the US. This enables power to travel both ways and uses less cable than radial circuits, hence our power circuits are rated at 32amps rather than 16amps (as preferred in the US and most of continental Europe), also sockets can be installed in bathrooms BUT they have to be 3 metres from any water source, according to UK wiring regulations 18th edition.
While I love cultural differences and hold a special place in my heart for England, I do find the lack of outlets in bathrooms distressing. The first time, when I saw that men could use their shavers in the bathrooms but women had to go elsewhere to use their appliances, I thought maybe it was chauvinistic LOL! I like using my hair appliance in the bathroom, and have never heard of a problem with electricity, unless it was someone (perhaps on purpose) dropping a radio into a bathtub of water.
Electricity and subsequent building codes developed differently from one side of the pond to the other. I guess the USA once wanted to convert to the same system as Europe, but due to all the appliances that were already in use in American houses, they felt it was too expensive to change.
@@janv1390 I did read somewhere that the bathroom electrical installations were tightened up after a few fatalities. The reason you can use a shaver plugged into one of those shaver/light sockets is because they are an isolating transformer and a lot safer because they are wired off the 6amp light circuit.
Okay
For the date thing. Ok and logical to write yy/mm/dd or dd/mm/yy but to start in the middle of the date then return to the beginning and finally the end. I’m Sorry this is senseless.
Well yes, and frankly evil.
I would like to see the world adopt yyyy/mm/dd as the standard
@@watchtheskies In computing it's normal for the date to be written as yyyy/mm/dd because that way you can subtract one date from another and get the number of days between them. As to the American mm/dd/yyyy, that follows the way we (both Brits and Yanks) say a date as January 14th, 2001, or December 25th, 2019. However, we also say the 25th of December 2019. So it's just how each country has formalised the format according to the way it's normally said in conversation.
Daryl Sledge hate is a very powerful word and I agree with you that this is not a subject that merits the use of this word. If you reread my comment you will see I used ‘senseless ‘. It is also not a subject I will lose any sleep over.
@Daryl Sledge Daryl yyyy/mm/dd isn't currently used anywhere, however in the world of computers and data, it is the logical format, records can easily be held in chronological order
He's not calling you cnts, it's just a joke in dropping the u.
It's a joke because they didnt want to say it
I think the main reason British people hate when Americans do British accents is because the majority of them are shit at the accents, but still seem to think they are experts
I would say 50% of those comments were hyperbolic in their use of the word HATE and the other half were just from "internet people". Either way, I wouldn't take it too seriously.
Absolutely.
“Internet people” I think Ik what you mean :/
In the UK we definitely spell 'install' with two ls. Super interesting video, please keep them coming!
Me too, always with two ls
Who spells skillful with one l? Although we don't drop the l in enrol or enrolment because it doesn't need two ls. I don't believe the word is from roll.
Glad you enjoyed it! And thank you for the feedback!
I once put my foot in it when I pointed out to a friend that the word 'tranquillty' in his new tatoo, should only have one 'l'.
@@WanderingRavens , I think British people tend to hate it because they think Americans are spreading the racial stereotype that they all speak in the same accent. Or it's just a cultural thing.
Your comments on the differences between American and British English are spot on. There are so many inconsistencies within both languages that it is pointless to consider one form "better" or more proper than another. The vast range of dialects just in the UK means that you can be born ten miles away from someone else and you will use different words to descibe the same thing. As far as I am aware, there are fewer distinct dialects in American English relative to the size of the population (I could certainly be wrong), largely due to a more recent and more mobile population creating a more homogenised or universal form of the language.
One note on the "herb" controversy: How do you pronounce "hospital"? That also comes from the French. Just another example of those inconsistencies.
I recently found your channel and am enjoying your take on British culture. It is interesting to hear the views of outsiders (in the nicest possible sense). If you ever make it to the North-West of England, you should give Lancaster a visit. It has a castle and everything.
Hehe- ospital
American english is nothing to hate it is just a dialect and how it came over time 🇺🇸❤️🇬🇧
Brits are sensitive about Americans doing are accent is cos there’s accents from manchester,Liverpool,Kent,London,york,midlands and loads more so u never know were there from and if it’s an actual accent cos no one speaks like the royal family
Well, I mean, America has a lot of different accents, too... Try doing a Chicago accent. How about a Philadelphia accent? New York and Boston are pretty similar, but have quite a few major differences. Do you know them? How about the difference between lower (Indiana, Ohio) and upper (Michigan, Minnessota) midwest? Tennessee and Georgia both have southern accents, yet they're very different, and so is Texas's. I hope this didn't sound snarky haha. I'm just saying, there are a lot of different accents here, too.
I'm actually trying to learn different UK accents. Working on Geordie right now, but I'm pretty competent in contemporary RP, west country, cockney (aside from the rhyming slang, that shit's fucking impossible lol), and south-Dublin Irish (not UK, but you know what I mean), as well as Shakespearean OP (original pronunciation).
Jake Foster All u need to pass as sounding British and from down south like in Kent (but not the coast,Brighton,Dover,Hastings or Eastbourne) is to be rlly rude and have insults that make nosence to anyone else other then there person ur telling it to. And cocky rhythming slang is a big part as it’s used everywhere. If u can get that and use everything confidential no one will mind your accent that much
Jake Foster please don’t try Geordie , it just sounds ridiculous when someone other than a real Geordie do it. 😂
@paul nemzi Can I use your dog to call me trouble?
I love England i love when packistani speaks brummie.I love when Indian speaks glaswegion.I love everybody in England.no matter what nationality.we one big melting pot.
We had a tragedy in the uk, and thought it’s bad, but finally, we’ll be able to correct the date order. And it happened on 7/7...
Wtf bro
You can’t do that
...an old saying: Two nations divided by the same language
If u do travel to the uk after making this DONT stay the the fuck away
I'm not British but have to say the way Americans mark the date is annoying because when you are used to every other country (or almost) marking it the same way it's really confusing trying to figure out the date. Sometimes when you forget some date is marked the American way it can also create misunderstandings especially when the date is such that you don't instantly notice it's been put American way like 1/7/2020. It's ok to have something like 2/22/2020 because you instantly realise there is no 22 months but with the 1/7/2020 you can easily read it as first of July if you don't realise it's the American way. Like this is not just difference/confusion/annoyance between British and Americans it's difficult for others too!
I never actually considered how we use date format in the U.S. It must be confusing for many in the world. We write dates as we speak them. I would say today is February 5, 2023. Others would normally say it is 5 February 2023. We write the date as we speak the date. Our '4th of July' is the huge exception! In the U.S., the date conversion is easy..we know most of the world uses DD/MM/YY I can easily translate 8/4/22 to April 8, 2022
So you HATE us for how we write the date? Some people have real problems, but you obviously are oblivious to that. So you want a country with 330 million people to change the way they write the date, even though they are happy with it, because Brits like you HATE it? ErgGeest, please stay away from our country. Thank you.
I hear your language explanations, I respect your language explanations, but of course the English way is right 😜
You've got us there 😂
Too right, we made the language we determine what is right and wrong😂
@@qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm3937 OMG IT'S PHIL MITCHELL.
b9y Yhhh mate u want anything from the chippy, me n Shirley are popping down
Daryl Sledge do it ur way fine but don’t get shitty when we say ur way is wrong
Just like to say the way children have uniforms at school is that uniform can not be judged ,if school has free dress then poorer students are more in the line of fire for bring poor,but the school uniform and shoes are expensive xx
In regard to language, specifically British/English, quite a few of us from the older generation find it very difficult to understand the words our younger generation use, just as when we were young, our older generation back then also found us harder to understand for the words we used. As Grace quite rightly said, languages are fluid and evolve.
I'm from Liverpool and we always called trousers 'Kecks' - my in-laws did the same too
This is the best word
Not herd kecks for ages lol
I live in Wales and call them bottoms or the specific style (leggings, jeans, joggers, etc), I only use trousers when talking about smart trousers or school trousers.
Lee Cal Kecks are trousers and underpants are undies
Lee Cal ... nah, underwear is/are “skiddies”....
When we say hate, it usually means it annoys us. As in i hare the way some Americans are so against socialised healthcare, but they are happy with socialised police and fire service.
Oh forgot to add you two look like you were having a blast doing this lol
A lot of us want socialized healthcare though
We don't have socialized police. Police forces are either state-run (run by the state government, of which there are 50) or locally-run.
@Daniel the Maniel because unlike America we take an interest in the rest of the world
@@tomski120 Bruh?
You guys say that but relies on the US military for protection. If you guys actually spend money on your shit military. We would have more money instead of wasting it on weak allies. XD
Britain: I hate the way Americans spell words
Me: BRUHHHHHHHHHHH
If you ever want to visit Antwerpen in Belgium, I'd gladly be your tour guide!
I often do this for foreign friends and acquaintances. Sometimes local friends of mine join to learn more about their own town. ;)
To those that do'nt seem to like Americans. At this particular time in our history we should remember that America sent food and weapons to the UK and later on thousands of young men to stand by our men against an enemy that could have wiped us of the face of the earth. Never Forget.
Accents are an important part of one’s identity here. When Americans try to do a “British Accent” it’s either an attempt at a “Posh” accent or Dick van Dyke’s horrendous attempt at Cockney from Mary Poppins. You two are well aware than within 20 miles you can find a completely different local accent.
I’ve never heard an American trying Geordie, Welsh, Cornish, Brummie, Mancunian or Yorkshire for example.
To be honest I think we’re lucky we haven’t heard them attempt those accents. I dread to think what would come out
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I try Geordie all the time. It's so fucking hard ha. Ya areet marra? Ah divint nah. Ahm gannin' hyem. That's about it. The rest of the accent not in dialect is damn near impossible haha
...and it is easier for y'all to try an old-fashioned upper-class old South accent. British actors are much better at it nowadays. Otherwise, as one who was schooled in England, I agree with you entirely.
By the way, as a brit, I am pretty sure that the vast majority of us will like you two. You have a great attitude
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On the accent thing. We are always openly mocked as a nation for ridiculous and out dated stereotypes, and it gets very tiresome after a while. As a English person from the North, I have been told meny times that I don't "sound British" when I do, I just don't sound the stupid stereotype they expected. We are so much more as a nation than, tea and crumpets, tweed, the Queen, and a stupid accent that I have never heard in real life. And it gets exhausting to be mocked like that.
That makes sense. Thank you for giving us some additional context, Jaiden!
Some people have real problems.
But it's only the yanks that have the silly stereotypes. The rest of the world knows better.
Thankyou I’m fed up of the U.K being portrayed from London or the south east. It’s like some Americans think the U.K. is just London
Most Americans do know that most British people do not speak the Posh accent.
Pretty sure most of London sounds Cockney.
As a Brit, I frequently point out to fellow Brits that 'aluminum' and 'aluminium' are both correct, but with different criteria for settling on the terms. Prior to the use of both terms, it was called alumina, alumine, and alumium.
Most of the other complaints are based on ignorant, anti-American chauvinism.
Hi guys, so glad I found your channel, it's always interesting to get people's opinions and impressions of different cultures. I'm a Brit and the only issue I have with people is when they are disrespectful of other people's culture when they are in their country. Ignorance, xenophobia and disrespect are universal. Trust me, we have plenty of home grown idiots as I'm sure you guys do too. Just get people to put the wink emoji when they are being sarky (sarcastic, hopefully a new slang term for you), I know the British humour can be hard to spot sometimes. Make sure you get over to East Anglia on your next uk adventure, great coast, history and lovely locals. 😘
Sounds like East Anglia is lovely. I am going there next time I go to England.
Wow they were some really petty comments you needed to react to there! Hi from a northwest England quarantine zone!
Thank you for backing us up, Daniel! We appreciate you! And we definitely understand that these tweets represent a tiny, tiny minority of British people :D How are you holding up in quarantine?
@@WanderingRavens going stir crazy! The irony of sunny weather during a lockdown has not been lost on us at all! How are you guys faring, are you over here or stateside at the moment?
@@photophrenic We're in France actually, and going VERY stir crazy haha
Why are they saying the history of words and then like "so your way is incorrect"? Words can change meaning and can be invented. Like saying you should use gay for happy and then when you're misunderstood saying that it once meant "happy" so you're correct.
Bonnet is a women's hat, a boot is a shoe......but Brits criticize us for speaking incorrectly
I think the vast majority of British people “hate” when Americans do a British accent because accents vary from place to place and it’s not standardised, which I understand is similar to America. But if u try to do a british accent many of us subconsciously feel as though u r ridiculing is for not sounding like the stereotypical Brit. Even in places like London the accent changes whether ur from east, north, south or west London and even further within those. For example I’m from east London and depending on which part of east London you’re from the accent can vary even further and across different ages groups there are also differences. Hope that cleared things up a bit. I’m 17 at the moment and planning to move to Florida after I finish university (u guys call it college) so I’m watching all of your videos so I’m well educated about American culture and values so I don’t upset people. Lots of loveeeee xxx
Aight look up Geordie accent (north eastern English)
Yet when Brits do an American accent they always do the valley girl accent
This is a good comment and I think I should give some tips. When we do a British accent it’s mostly either because we like the accent or we like you’re culture and have heritage from there or we are just interested in the accent. We don’t want to offend you, we just want to make friends and learn. Next time you find someone who gets angry at us doing this try to inform them about this and help them learn as well. 😁👍🏻
this goes both ways.
@@jamalcolorado4260 we don't actually usually do any because we don't go about our daily lives thinking about Americans, but when I have heard people do it they all do different ones.
Zeitgeist is originally German and used in Philosophy to describe the "spirit of an age". In German, when you get "ei" together in a word, it is the second letter that gets pronounced, so saying it as you do is correct. In fact I am pretty sure I have never heard it said any other way. I'd love to know what the person complaining about it considers to be the correct pronunciation.
What is the reason British people don’t like us?
Edit: why hate how we say/spell things thats how we’re learned it
There are definitely way worse things Brit’s think about us, of course not all Brit’s , but a few at least. All we ask is respect for each other, Americans only have positive things to say about you . hate is a very powerful word.That is a legit question and hopefully someone answers.
This is not about government.
I'm British and I don't hate the Americans at all. There are always trolls on the internet.
Just like this video...it will cause tension and some people just like to create hate between nations and who's to say if they are even really British or American people in the comments.
I hate when American takes jokes about them way too seriously 😉
Helene's Home no UK humor is curde and sarcastic even Americans that tolerate crudeness much less than us Brits they just really don't get sarcastic humor most of the time imo
Whether they were jokes or not, these tweets gave us the opportunity to take the piss out of people who say these same exact things in our comments every single day. If you're going to make fun of us, at least make sure your jokes are factually accurate 😉
@@WanderingRavens Hehe.. Very nicely academic, I can see why. But I think there is a cultural clash here to. I don't think they mean hate that seriously. And it's ok to have faults, I often find many of my American friends and people I know gets a lot more easily offended.. 😊 Just my experience..
I suppose that you didn't catch the sarcasm from them?
I hate how they spell humour, humor. ;)
I was getting quite distressed about the amount of hatred that was being expressed about total trivia, until I remembered that *in these contexts* 'hate' generally really means 'am mildly irritated by'. What is really distressing is that it appears some people truly believe others are *wrong* to pronounce a word or order their dates differently.
On the subject of Americans 'doing' British accents, I think it is because they often choose to do particular accents that are extremely rare or even 'dead', over here. During this video you both 'did' British accents that were absolutely fine. But, whatever, it's hardly something to get worked up about.
On Soccer, it's actually always been used in Britain, it's just a quite a bit less common than football. What a lot of the world does think is funny is that you have a ball game played largely with the hands, and then call it by an extant word that is used by the rest of the world for a game that is played by the feet (and occasionally head). Then again "rugby football!".
I love this video! Explains so much!
As an American this made me feel powerful
To my knowledge the difference in spelling dates back to the colonies. It was cheaper to print words with less letters and differing letters.
Actually, spelling did not become standard on either side until the early 19th century. Nonstandard spelling in the States are abbreviated, partially for the reason you cite. It annoys me, too.
The differences derive partially from Mr Webster's desire to simplify spellings and partly from his personal dislike for Dr Samuel Johnson, who published his (British) English dictionary first.
@@scottmccormick8981 so Webster simplified the date system because he was petty.
wrong are we? please explain why american's say carmel it's bloody C-A-R-A-M-E-L .....arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Well shit. You got us there! 😂
No, Americans say car-a-mel.
some may,most dont iv'e heard plenty say carmel!
You mad bro don't judge dude
@@tavo2422 stop being American
I love british people I really do. I can see the humor in the tweets. It's all good on that front.
I just want them to remember that when they don't like what we, Australia, South Africa, and other english speaking countries do they should remember one thing.
You made us lmao. We are like a group of children who had a father that said "do as I say not as I do." We did anyway. We talk funny and we do things a little different but we have so much in common that certain countries can't tell us apart. In other words it's the pot calling the kettle black.
i agree we have similar speech and idioms we should celebrate them instead love australians by the way i like americans also
I'm British and I actually love Australians
Damn Brits can get salty
You Yanks are always salty
Crumpets are most definitely not classy xD
Let us have our fantasy! xD
In the old South they were called, "hoe cakes." I agree.
@@WanderingRavens ur just gay i cl
burgers and poor cuisine isn't either.
Love watching your videos and the frequent content is amazing! Keep it up
From Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Thank you so much, Kate! We appreciate you and are so glad you enjoy our content :)
They miss all the jokes and sarcasm, lighten up
I hate the date thing, because I was reading a document and it had the date in american format.. and it was 4/11/2019.. and I didnt know if it was the 4th of November or the 11th of April. I got so messed up.
A friend of mine spent a few years in the US and got people confused in both countries when he wrote letters. He then used roman numerals for months eg 07/05/2001(or 05/07/2001) became 07/v/2001. It cleared things up quickly.
@@petelyle8056 very smart actually
How are these words to be hated? Does anybody really get upset hearing someone saying them? If they do, they need to get a life.
Jim Gill it’s just the crude dry sarcastic British “humour” it’s not serious really
sillybillybadboy nice
Tongue in cheek ( banter )
One of the reasons that we’re sensitive about accents is a lot to do with social class. Once over only the upper-middle class and upper class had a “posh” or RP accent, whereas the lower classes had accents specific to their region. It was a sign of social prestige to have an RP accent. Now, however, the majority of people don’t want to sound posh, because it has connotations of being ‘stuck-up’ or being a ‘know-it-all’. Also, lumping every English person in with having an RP accent is kind of taking away their regional identity. Just a bit of insight😁 Love the videos!
That’s dumb.
British people do that to American accents as well! Mostly is just the medias fault for that.
Britain is so dumb.
You get rich people with Northern accents aswell
@@skitzozpandaz5993 lawl found the triggered troll
In the UK use both ways of saying dates (April 4th vs 4th of April) however we write out dates the way we do (day/month/year) because it's done by the length of time. A day being the shortest time span, then month, then year. Where as, in America you say the medium length of time, then the shortest and then the longest.
What? That's not how counties are pronounced in the UK. Using Derbyshire as an example, you pronounce it like dar-bi'shuh
Yorkshire (region, not a county) is york-shuh. Some southern people pronounce the 'shire' part of the names differently and will say 'sheer' instead, but no-one actually pronounces shire the same way at the end of words as it is pronounced separately.
I'm loving these videos, and fortunately I feel I'm getting to know you both well enough that I'm sure you know that we're not all this petty.
We appreciate you, Simon! And we definitely understand that these tweets represent a tiny, tiny minority of British people :D
An American biscuit is like a savoury scone. A muffin in the UK is a yeasted bread product. So they are not the same.
U mean a Popeyes biscuit 😂
Why don't Americans know the difference between a narcotic and a stimulant, cocaine is a stimulant, heroin is a narcotic
The word autumn came to English via the Old French 'autompne', meaning autumn. This in turn came from the Latin 'autumnus', also meaning “autumn”. Before calling the season autumn or fall, it was called harvest, until it lost its reference to the time of year and was just the activity.
Good explanation. Thanks.
An English muffin is more like a bread roll.
A cob.
I agree with you whole heartedly about the differences between our two languages. However, I will never be able to call a bottem a fanny. Also the most jarring for me is zeeebra why?
David Evans the way they say jaguar too
they say zeeebra because they cannae say the letter "Z" properly.
@@elliottslab We pronounce jaguar the way we do because that is how it is pronounced in the Americas where the animal's native habitat is. The original Tupi word even has the djz sound, the Spanish "h" sound is not faithful to the original either. Br-Pt has it right. The split between the syllables is after the "a", not the "g" and the accent is on the glottal stop between the syllables, not the non-existent middle sound. Brits are very fond of adding unnecessary syllables to words. Most native English speakers (3/4s) use the more original NAE version.
Perhaps we can all agree to laugh at the Canadians, a subset of whom say "JAY gwaar".
Markle2k you got to admit it sounds way better the way it’s said by the English, Jaguar motor cars always makes sure to have a English person say it at press events 😂
@@elliottslab It sounds "better" to you because that is what you are familiar with and because you think it is an English word. It sounds childish, puerile even, to the rest of the world.
Um instal is like cancel though so we do spell it with two Ls when you add the ing so it would be installing and cancelling
As an NIrish mine is a load of yanks coming up to me saying there 2% irish through a stupid story.. my dad just goes "nope fella your American!" XD
I think we don’t like it when they try and do an English accent because they go naturally to like a supper posh accent the bearly anyone speaks and then we hate the idea of sounding that posh so we get really annoyed if someone thinks we sound like that
@Daryl Sledge honestly Americans do sound like that
The Man MANN
I just hate how religious Americans are.
The Man MANN what’s that supposed to mean?
Addison Playz I fcking hate Americans
briggzutd _14_ me too!!
So, the TV remakes thing - you should watch a show called "Episodes". It's a joint UK/US production about a US remake of a fictional UK TV show, and how it gets systematically destroyed by studio interference.
And the it crowd
You will find we dont use the word Fall in UK. It may have originated from here but no one calls it fall.
Genuine, and route you said like we say in UK or at least where I live. Herb you didn't say like we do, we pronounce the h. The explanation was cool though xxx
That varies. In parts of the UK, the letter H is dropped when it's the first one. We will say 'erb, but it doesn't sound wrong cos it's consistent with our accents.
As for heir and hour, those words make sense to have a silent H because the whole word is effectively only vowel sounds.
Gotta say native British English speaker here and the way you guys pronounce 'genuine' is exactly how I do and how everyone I know does, we say 'Jen-you-in' instead of 'Jen-you-ine' the latter sounds more American but it's probably just a regional thing 😂
Same here. I’ve never heard anyone say it with the “ine”
Genu-eye-n is considered yokel.
Make love, not war! ...now that that's out of the way - what do YOU hate about Americans? 😂Drop your answer under this comment!
Wandering Ravens some people either like American or hate Americans
@@michaela4499 We're a bit like Marmite.
@@WanderingRavens ruclips.net/video/MKQCT24_eCA/видео.html you need to watch this, or do a reaction to this lol. "whats your English" english vs canadian english a song
I like English and American ways in my opinion this is exciting to learn new things on how they say things also I haven't got a bad opinion on Americans your a separate country so you do things you like British people do things they like
@@jacobpotts3627 We agree! Thank you for the positive words, Jacob! Cultural differences are so much fun :D
The Brits hate on the American-version of English but I don't see the Dutch hating on Afrikaans.
I've never seen anyone here in Britain spell skillful, enrollment nor install with only one L, where did you hear that??
The pants/trousers difference is a very modern thing, and it’s an affectation that’s spread across the country from the south east over the last fifteen years or so. The long garment I wear on my legs is called trousers or pants. Unsurprisingly , the short garment I wear under it is called underpants. I’m 52 now, brought up in West Yorkshire, and trousers were/are always pants. As I said, the use of pants for underwear is a very modern thing. I’d like to see its adherents shot if I’m being honest.
yep in North east pants are trousers
I'm 69 now, and from Bristol, and for me trousers have always been trousers not pants, and underpants have been either underpants or pants. So it's a regional variation, just as me and my mates at school used to use 'gotten' which many think of as just an Americanism.
Even in the UK the English language is totally different depending on where you live.
Indeed... most American accents are easy to understand, whereas there are some regional English accents that need quite a bit of listening practice.
Yeah we even make fun of different part of the countries accents for instance: **iNnIT**
@@stephendouglas4870 come on Stephen you seem an intelligent guy. The dialect may be slightly different, but the language is most certainly not "completley different" as I'm sure you know. So god knows why your agreeing with the fella. I can understand any dialect of England, South yorks, Carlisle, Manchester.... You name it, and I'm from the London area. (originally)
@@noname-yt7uf Well, on this two points: I know an American, born in the UK and left at the age of about 5, now in her 60s, who says she sometimes watches British series on Netflix using subtitles - this is mainly for her husband's benefit but also hers. Secondly, I have met one or two people from Newcastle and Glasgow whose speech took me a while to adjust to, until I stopped asking them to repeat something (I love all these accents, though). That said, I've not had any problems with any American accents (at least as far as I've experienced them), including those from Carolina or the deep south. So, I'm saying we understand them better than they understand us, on the whole.
@@stephendouglas4870 I have no problem with American or British dialects, or Australian, Canadian, ...... Everything I heard here is petty nit-picking of specific social media posts that they've generalized.
I've been binge-watching your videos, I don't know how anyone could hate you two.
It’s almost 1 AM for me currently and I only watched this video I’m going to bed 🫠
As a commited sporting fan, it boils my urine that yanks call winners of their yank only sports, "World Champions". Urgh.
Just discovered you guys and love all of the comparisons! Come up to Liverpool (and then go further north) as soon as you can. You will get a brilliant welcome. Also, Wales is beautiful and I'm sure you will love it. Get to Anglesey if you can. 👍
daniel martin Welcome to our little corner of the internet! Pull up a chair and stay a while :) And we're planning to go north as soon as this virus situation blows over!
I have friends in Liverpool and in Wrexham.
Don’t go to Leeds though
Wow, I hate that my fellow Brits are so petty!
Americans do too.
Problem is we don't expect you to feel sorry. You are overstating your importance. Trust me, we don't care that much. I'm sure as an Australian you don't care about our opinions. Have a good one.
@@raelowe1034 Grow up. I do care that people like each other and Im a 43 year old american. Im as proud of america as you
What the British call Biscuits, are cookies. What the Americans call biscuits, are scones.
I really loved this video. It was awesome guys haha